No Good

I tried painting today. It wasn't happening.

So here's a little doodley-do instead...

Decked 2

Here's something serioulsy cool…

Decked is the culmination and celebration of skateboarding and art:

"The Decked Project is a fine and dandy collection of artists / illustrators / designers / tattoo artists and generally ink-stained fellows. The first exhibition was held at Stolenspace gallery in London in 2009 and will be back by popular demand in August 2010 at The Coningsby Gallery, London."

Same idea, more great stuff. And guessy what?! I'm painting a deck for it!! Better get my move on, groove on! I'm properly excited to have been accepted!

The show runs from 15th-29th August at Coningsby Gallery, 30 Tottenham Street, London.

Decked is the creation of illustrator Vicky Newman and is organized by her together with EJ Miles and David Bain.

Decked blog, there's now a list of 2010 participating artists on the right.

The Decked Project FB group.

Join the Club?

I've always held my pencil/pen/brush differently from people I see around me. I thought I was weird. Really weird. Until the other day.

I popped over to Sketch Theater, to check out the super Brandi Milne's first video on there, which is truly divine and whilst watching noticed that she holds her pencil the same way!! A thumb and TWO fingertips on the barrel! Hell yeh, take that all you pencil holding conformists! So, I'm not the only one, and guess what, Brandi is an insane artist, so I guess the pencil technique can't be all that bad!

Go check out Brandi's page on Sketch Theatre (she just added a second video to the site). I adore the videos, it feels very nearly pervy watching people work! It's great. I also love being able to see an entire work of art being created in super quick time. I've been inspired and Tim's album artwork is also being filmed, and I'll upload it here when it's done.
 

So who's gonna join me and Brandi in the "It-takes-More-Than-One-Finger-and-One-Thumb-to-Grip-a-Pencil Club"?! We need members!

The Last Unicorn Art Show

I will have a piece in another upcoming show... and I'm dead excited about it!!

The Last Unicorn Art Show @ The Tattoo Factory Gallery, Chicago, IL is curated by the awesome Jeremy Scheuch and is in honor of the book The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle.

When I first heard about the show I hadn't read the book, so I bought a copy hoping it would spark some inspiration and seven pages later I had applied for the show!

I'm still reading the book (yeh, I'm a slow reader!) but I've already started on my piece, the book had one particular concept that really struck a cord, and it's the basis of my painting (more on that soon).

More after the jump...

Framed & Gone!!

Kiss Me @ Pop Revolution

I'm uber excited to annouce that my piece, Kiss Me Slow is going to be in the Kiss Me group show at Pop Revolution Gallery, Mason OH - U, S of A!!!

"The exhibition pays tribute to Gustav Klimt and his most famous work, “The Kiss.” Pop Revolution Gallery asked artists to submit their best rendition of “The Kiss,” while adding their own style and interpretation to the original.

The exhibition along with “The Kiss” theme, aspires to be a great start to a romantic Valentine’s date"

KISS ME opens Saturday, February 13, 2010 with an artist’s reception from 4-8pm. So, if unlike me, you happen to live in the area, pop (see what I did there) on down, I bet some of these renditions are going to be immense!

Photos of the framed piece and a proper scan to come... just waiting for the frame to arrive so I can send it off - now tell me, why didn't I organize that sooner??