work on sale

i was pleased to (eventually) get some work into the 'created in birmingham' shop in the city's bullring shopping mall.  i was doubly pleased because i sold a framed set of the sci-fi badges from my first blog in the first few days of them displaying the work.  i've got a couple of other pieces in the same format - you can just about see them in the photo: one is a collection of people from different places, the other is of animals from twycross zoo.  the store may only be open til the end of may but i've got my fingers crossed another one might sell.

strumpit

check out strumpit on myspace.  they're a gypsy jazz trio who are currently playing all over the midlands.  i've seen them play a few times now and they're great to listen to and i liked drawing them too (they're real characters!).  they liked my sketches - and it was a nice surprise that they've used them quite prominently on their myspace page.  thanks guys.

http://www.myspace.com/strumpit

The first instalment...

this is it... the first one... i've finally gotten round to it. i didn't so much break my new year resolution, as just took a couple of months to get round to it. this was the resolution that i would spend much more time in the studio than i had in the last six months of 2009. so after that drop in creative output, a couple of sputtering starts and leaving the silly thing in reverse - it's taken me a while to put something new together and i was so pleased with myself today (it doesn't take much - any excuse to jump around with a smile), that i thought i should start blogging my creative output, too.

I did a whole load of drawings of spaceships, robots and ufos and this is the first set from that work. There will be more (actually, there already is - these are just the ones i mounted up). I've been developing my way of working using drawings and adding textures and colours digitally - i tried this years ago but wasn't happy with the results and stuck to black and white, but for some reason it's working a whole lot better for me now. and i can't help but get excited about producing artwork.

the illustrations are made into pin badges. I like using this method of presenting my work at the moment, and am planning a few more sets to follow.