Wall piece take 2…

Just before Christmas I had another go at the wall in Hale. I did one of my first attempts at a wall piece there a few years back and whilst I was happy with it then I’ve been wanting to re do it for a while now. Anyway, this is the result. I had a little nudge in direction from Hale, and it obviously had to work in the space but aside from that I could do what I wanted – I’m pretty chuffed with the overall result and I’m loving working with this technique…

Gig poster…

A friend asked if I would make a poster for her next acoustic night, so I did!

Limited edition print for ZOMBIEPALOOZA

This Halloween I created a limited edition Gocco print for a new zombie based horror event in Durham. Zombiepalooza is focused around event based cinema and saw a hoard of zombies infest the local shopping centre, then sit down with pop corn and watch the original Dawn of the Dead – yes really.

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Anyway, part of their concept is to commission an artist/illustrator to create a new collectable print for every event they do, and since I am involved with the Zombiepalooza I was able to put myself forward to create the first one.

I’m pretty chuffed with the result, it was my first time using Gocco and it’s such a beautiful medium. I love its rough around the edges DIY style. Following a masterclass by the ultra awesome Cloud Commission I came up with the final product.

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Design wise I couldn’t go into insane amounts of details and colours as I could of with a large screen print so I had to keep it relatively simple for the size and format. I didn’t want to do a straight homage to the movie with characters or classic scenes so instead I just went with a stylised zombie. I did throw in a nice little reference for fans however, the pattern background is a little retro TV showing Richard France’s eye patch wearing scientist.

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Anyway, if you like Dawn of the Dead or are in to collecting prints you can grab one here for only £5 + p&p. After the success of the first Zombiepalooza they will be doing more events so grab the first ever print whilst you have the chance.

BUY PRINT

Zombiepalooza website

Evolve: New works for Papergirl Newcastle

I submitted these pieces of work for the upcoming Papergirl Newcastle event, an awesome idea that has finally made it’s way up North thanks to Carlos Rosati who is taking on the Newcastle division. The idea is that artist’s donate work which is then rolled up and distributed to the unsuspecting public by a group of people on bikes, much like American style paperboys. Check out the site to get a full grasp of the concept and to see how you can get involved but know this, it’s gonna be good.

The drew these with fine liner. I didn’t have time to figure out a way to turn them into a print run plus I like the fact strangers can get their hands on original art work whether they want to or not. So, if you are in Newcastle on the 27th August you might get your mitts on these. Whether you want to or not.

Fast and loose

Slow and err, tight?

You can see one of these pieces hanging in the exhibition now until the distribution date along with loads of REALLY GOOD work from loads of other artists.

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Check out the exhibition of work to be distributed at this place: http://www.thesettledown.com/

It really is a brilliant concept that has such a nice ethos and vibe about it. There are still ways you can help by way of time, check out this link for more info

More walls!

I was back at Rocking Horse the other week to draw as part of Clive Aid, a music, DJ and art event thing – it was fun and I drew this. My timings are getting better, I would have liked to have added some detail in the black background but stopped myself from going back to it… I must learn!

Other artists involved were Morning Skyrail, Paul X. Johnson and Brucey (above in that order). Find their links in the Blogroll to the right.