Monday 21 December 2020

Xmas 2020!

Merry Christmas everyone. Hope everyone has a happy, fun and peaceful festive season.


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Friday 18 December 2020

Jingle Bells-Ho Ho Ho-Chrimbo Time Again! #2

Here are my Christmas illustrations. 

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2015

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2019

Next post will be Monday 21st @4PM- Xmas 2020!

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Friday 11 December 2020

Jingle Bells-Ho Ho Ho-Chrimbo Time Again! #1

As 2020 comes to a close and we approach the festive season I thought I'd share this from when I was a kid. My dad was a graphic designer and painter used to design and print his own Christmas cards to send out to family, friends and clients. The earliest ones he printed himself using lino cuts covered in ink and pressed onto card through an old antique mangle. They're very much of their time, but great fun. The one for Xmas 1979, when I was ten, was particularly controversial and he'd be cancelled for it today. I think it's fantastic and still remember the shocked look on my stuffy teacher's face when she opened it in school that year.

I'm sure these aren't all of my dad's cards, but here are the ones I've got which date back to the early 70s.









There is a Facebook page that showcases more of my dad's art here-

In 2012 I thought it would be a nice idea to carry on the tradition posting my own Christmas illustrations each year on social media. I'll showcase them here next week.

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Friday 4 December 2020

Woolley Jumper #5

 

It's that time for another dose of wacky superhero parody from Mister John Woolley Esq. and his Massacre Comix/Murkle Yarns... Here is Pea-Brained Nuts Part 2 originally published in October 1994, Mondo #15.





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Friday 27 November 2020

I Don't Talk to the Trees

 

Here's some trees and nature pictures for you. Mostly done from life.

This first one is a sketch from 2002. I always thought it would look good on a greetings card.


It's Swamp Thing!!
This tree is one of several really old protected trees in Burnham Beeches, a woodland area near where I grew up. Being just up the road from Pinewood Studios here in the UK, it's famous for being the forest location in several films including the awful Kevin Costner 'Robin Hood Prince of Thieves'. This painting was done in acrylics in a small A5 sketchbook. I love how it's bending back as if reaching up to the heavens. I don't know if this or the other old trees are still there having not been to the Beeches for years. I hope so as they were around three hundred years old when I drew them... thirty years ago. 


Is this not like the petrified bones of some ancient giant alien dragon, or what?!


Another one reaching up to the heavens... Could it be that I had unwittingly stumbled upon the Parliament of Trees?




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Friday 20 November 2020

Work Work Work #3

 

This was a model making project that dates back to the mid 90s. I wanted to make it all atmospheric and industrial and play around with trick forced perspective. Once I had the idea I started with some sketches. Here's a passable one...


Next is a painted sketch of how I wanted the background to look with the dirty, grimy, rusty look reflected in the sky as well as on the bridge.


Here's the finished painted background..


The rusty iron girders of the bridge were made with card and masking tape then painted with acrylics. I made three with each one a smaller size to create the forced perspective. The figure was made with modelling clay and painted with acrylics. I made his head separately from the rest of him so it could be moved in the photos.
 

 Like here... This one was taken from the Daily Doodles on the Mondo Facebook page, hence the joke. The original photos are buried in my loft somewhere...


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