Xmas Dragon illustration for Southside magazine

Yeah I know, it's still too early to be thinking about Christmas, but thought I would stick up my Xmas dragon border illustration up for the contents page of Southside magazine.

It's a very long thin dragon made of snow and fir trees that is so long that it needs 8 legs! Quite a small piece, so couldn't quite explore the trashy tinsley side of the season that I wanted to. Perhaps another pic on this theme soon then - loads of gaudy decorations, half eaten mince pies and bottles of Port etc....

Speakerstackasaurus at Inky Goodness 2

My latest Acrylic and spraypaint painting is inspired by the Saint Pauls Carnival in Bristol UK. The streets look very much like this and have huge soundsystems made up of loads of speakers...although they don't form the shape of dinosaurs.

I chose to go with a Stegasaurus this time as it is one dino that I haven't done yet. He seems quite a friendly beast and has someone patting him on the head.

The piece is also inspired by the album artwork on records by the Dub artist Scientist. They are usually cartoony and feature lots of people dancing at a party. There are coppers often in there too like in my pic. Greensleeves records also has lots of covers like this.

I kept the colour scheme very tropical, warm and Rasta. Lots of red, gold and green. The guy on the decks is alot like Jah Shakka and the guy with glasses drinking a Red Stripe was meant to be DJ Derek but looks more like a friend of mine!

The painting is on display as part of the Inkygoodness Hopes & Fears group show of 16 contemporary illustrators and image-makers based in and around the South West.

Features new work by

Lisa Hassell
Michelle Turton
DocVek
Andy Council
Ben Newman
Dave Bain
Seb Burnett
Paul Roberts (Themlot)
James Bourne (Themlot)
Couscous Kid
Vicky Newman (House of Aces)
Simon David Mills
Ainsley Knott
Louise Tyers
Mini Padam
Mike O'Shea

Opening times:
Fri 14 Nov (first day) 11am - 1pm
Sat 15 Nov - Wed 26 Nov 11am - 4pm daily
Thur 27 (last day) 11am - 1pm

Illustrations for Environment Agency magazine

I have recently done these illustrations for the Environment Agency magazine - Your Environment.

I'm particularly pleased with the double page feature illustration of London in 2050 featuring buildings covered in solar panels and trees. Big Ben with a wind turbine on top!

Screen Printing at Snap Gallery

I spent yesterday at Snap Gallery Bristol doing screen printing with the help of ace illustrator Lucie Sheridan. I had lots of fun, drank lots of tea and ate a fair few biscuits. I managed to produce these two different prints -



Very limited run three colour screen print of Tankbunny, edition of six and...



Two of these Bristolgraffasaur prints. Give me a shout if interested in purchasing either as they won't be around for long.

Cube cinema sketch show

Myself and Rowdy spent a fair bit of time covering the walls of the Cube cinema in Bristol with black and white copies of our drawing work. This Farmyardeez show features over forty of my 'Lots Of Stuff' line drawings and runs for a month. It opened last night as part of the One Foot Forward evening of art, film and music. I feel pretty worse for wear today after a few too many zywiec beers.

Thanks to Liz, Bij, Eva and everyone else who helped us.

Upfest

I took part in Upfest this weekend. There were alot of Street Artists there from around the world doing all sorts of painting for the charity event. It was good to meet lots of people and fun to paint, but was also quite hard work.

On Saturday before the main event I came along and did this window drawing in an old Saab that was painted by lots of artists and then going to be auctioned off.



The photo didn't come out that well of it due to reflections and crap camera, but it is the head part of 'Saabasaurus'. The monster is loosely based on Giganotosaurus and is made up of Saab 900's. It was difficult drawing on the inside of the window as at an angle. At one point I had to contort myself and draw up through the steering wheel!

Here's the original pencil drawing I was working from and a close up.





For the main event on Sunday I brought along a tonne of paint and paint 'Graffaceratops', similar to the 'Bristolgraffasaurus' I had exhibited there.



This was very tricky to paint as it was on the main thoroughfare from the bar to the large event area. I kept on having to move out of peoples way and contorting myself again. I managed to maintain a Zen-like composure and complete the piece in the end. I was most pleased with the colours used more than anything else.

Despite the difficulty in working I had a good time and it was great to chat to lots of people there and have a few jars afterwards!

Friend & Co

Last night saw the opening of Friend & Co - possibly the smallest Art Gallery in Bristol! I have a Ltd edition screen print of Trainerceratops Head available exclusively there - it's very nice I have to say. There are other prints and original artwork pieces by Eco, Paris, Pinky, Russell Maurice, Mike Maxwell, Faris Badwan, French... and a bunch more too. There's an online shop where you can get prints too!

Here's a few of my crap pictures from the opening night...