Wednesday, December 16, 2009

got a nod

as part of the collective shoot the
player we were nominated for this
years smac awards ( sydney music ,arts
and culture awards) ..the night was
booze filled and fun even though we
lost out to trendy knitters

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

shooting made public

heres some of my shoot the
player photography used for
promos for their upcoming
show at carriageworks..
also my pic got into art
monthly mag ( which amuses
me that my photos not artwork
is the thing that make it in)



home boy

















i was asked by an old
friend to contribute
work for her upcoming
group show..what i thought
would be something fun on
the side turned into an epic
production of type filled animals
and re-worked urban icons..
the night it self was busy and
hot as hell but fun none the less

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

hoot-ananny



i've been thinking a lot lately about
about breaking things down into very simple
shapes and when you start to train your eye
to do so its amazing how quickly you can see
something in something else completely unrelated
case in point..seeing an owl in a reel to reel
machine...its a fun trick and one i intend to
do more

ps ..its something they taught us first term
of design school but i have only just applied..
sigh

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

all hours great and small

Monday, November 23, 2009

chattin' up



the info less version of this little
space oddity ..it kinda reminds me of
paul revere crossed with the movie
poster for dune

Monday, November 16, 2009

Australian Musicians Co-Operative

logo image for the newly established
Australian Musicians Co-Operative..
while shopping with dim and jack at
the mall this image of a cyclops like
metronome popped in my head..it was
" its so crystal clear in my mind"
that it was just a matter of constructing
it...if only every job was like that..


this image will be used not only on
stationary and such but flyers and
other promo stuff

Thursday, November 12, 2009

one dream coming true...

One thing i wanted when starting out
was posters i had made on telegraph poles
out the front of my house..even though
these are edits of my work for shore thing
i still consider it a dream come true



Tuesday, November 10, 2009

cultural mash up

fuck i love this poster..i will be heartbroken
if it gets rejected...its a representation of
what i love doing most at the moment which is
mashing up 2 or more cultures or subcultures to
get a weird hybrid..

in this case its a mexican wrestler with a native
american indian...but thats not the only mash up

my fave thing is the venetian with ghetto blasters
i wanna do a poster just with that



update
heres the spin off street press i did for the same
gig...i like this venetian B-boy so much

Sunday, November 8, 2009

make soup not warhol

UPDATE
as per the bands request the string has been
replaces by giraffes ..which i love as they
kinda remind me of musical notes




Band rebranding concepts for local
sydney band kempsy


Saturday, November 7, 2009

its what is inside that counts



UPDATE
just a few more for the wallpaper design











these are the first few images for a house and home
related group design i have coming up...
the doily art is to be framed and the type filled
animals( lots more to come) will be the wall paper

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

those tumbling tumble weeds

heres a business card concept for
tumbleweed productions

Saturday, October 31, 2009

HALLOWEEN MESSAGE FROM JACK


Wednesday, October 21, 2009

flying over the cuckoos nest pt 2



this cover may change*







so i have been working pretty
hard the last few weeks on this
mainly due to the fact that the
ideas kept evolving and getting
more and more epic ..
it kinda feels very early gilliam
to me but without the production
problems

Monday, October 19, 2009

a randon bit of silliness




this popped into my head on the
train home one day and to amuse
myself i mocked it up..i would
like to make this a shirt though..

Monday, October 12, 2009

a good card-io workout




a saul bass inspired double
sided biz card

Sunday, October 11, 2009

flying over the cuckoos nest

UPDATE
heres the cuckoo clock naval captain
theres other ranks to come



this is the first image from a
compilation cd i am working on..
its a mix of new uni bands and the
idea is that this cuckoo clock boat
is flying through different landscapes
waking up dormant planets..
so dormant planets that resemble apple cores
and cuckoo crew men are still to come

ahh to be shore...to be shore




after more than a months work..over thirty monsters
,over fifteen variations on one monster , many smiles
and walking styles. a sydney coastline , many many fish,
a total underwater environment and a lot more work that
goes unwritten about..heres the final image minus the type
plus me finding it in the brag with my gal dim late at night
in the city..check out that cheesy grin

Friday, October 9, 2009

orr not to be

UPDATE
heres the mock ups of the front
and back cover




queensland singer songwriter emailed me
asking me if i could do an inkblot test
involving drums.piano's,guitars and his
fine self...this is what i came up with..

true story!!

Thursday, October 8, 2009

all hours great and small







heres a copy of the beginning of the
email i sent the band which pretty much
sums this up..kinda
" Hey mister..heres the poster tried to
make it look like maybe if dali had got
into anti nuke propaganda or something
like that maybe if dali and warhol had
a love child who made peacenik posters..
anyways....


also mark from the small hours runs coolin
by sound a monthly indie night..heres a poster
for one of those nights..the last poster for this
and this current one is a reworking of art work
i did for the dlc art show night

Monday, October 5, 2009

shoot the player: the vivian girls

this was a fun return to shoot the player
althought we fought light and rain it was
a great shoot which culminated with a fan
love in while the girls played in the
middle of a surry hills roundabout



i hear the wolf at the door..



heres a poster im working on for
this theatre company..its a reworking
of classic childrens fables for both
the adelaide and melbourne festivals..
wanted to do something both graphic
and something like nordic folk art..
hope this conveys that

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

slowly getting there

this is just a quicky colour job
to get a rough feel for where this
is heading


its been a big process but we have narrowed
down the selection of the fuzzy shore thing
monster to this one..now just gotta get his
movement right and then we can move on..
yay




more ellis concepts



ok i was getting a little trippy with
recent ellis concepts so i decided to strip
it back to its barest..even though this is still
a little freaking trippy

Monday, September 14, 2009

you cant return home..but you can return to monster valley

UPDATE
this image got the thumbs down ..so its
back to the old drawing board

i was asked to do something wild things like
for sony..but i resisted the urge to out right
ripping off so instead i was inspired by the
ending of labyrinth where the toys in her room tell
her " if you ever need us..you know where to find us"
with this in mind i put the boys on a trek
returning to monster valley..a place they may have
played in their youth

monsters monsters everywhere

i have two massive monster jobs at the
moment..one is for fuzzy and required a
lot of concepts till we got the right
one..the other requires lots of monsters..
moral of this story..careful what you
wish for!!



Thursday, September 10, 2009

boy oh boy

this still needs more info added but its pushing
more of the french in the french mex for their
upcoming gig promoting the single vinyl release

concepts r us

sony has asked for me to mix illustration
and photography for this Georgia Fair album..
they want a merry band of wild things-esque
monsters following the boys pied piper style
into the woods..
this image is my jumping off point in the
process




the dew process ppl seem to like this rural
trippy-ness so this is the avenue im taking
with ernest ellis





finished stoop and carty

after many revisions..these are whats going to
the printers for both bands..the jack carty tug
boat in space image may be adapted into a sfx
video clip



Sunday, September 6, 2009

cloudy with a chance of kong

inspired by something i saw incorrectly..
sometimes bad eye sight is a blessing , most
times its not...

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

giant under water monsters

UPDATE
after a meeting the fuzzy team decided
upon a melding of the first pixar like
monster and a bizaare floating head
pencil sketch i had done...this is
a 5 minute colouring job on a sketch
of what they might want









i have a strange history with fuzzy..
having done more posters that never saw
the light of day than ones that did i am
not really getting too excited but part
of me wants to anyway because the event
i have been asked to design for is massive..
i mean mega massive
anyways their idea is to have a large sea monster
that has bondi and the city upon its head...
this is my first attempt at one of the sea monster
concepts i have

Monday, August 31, 2009

a bit on the side- art project

Produced in under a week for the dead letter
chorus album show at notes these were made
for stand alone display in the lobby area.
i had a real blast basically producing outside
my usual comfort zone and producing just for
myself..most times i worry if people like
what i do..in this case..i was very happy and
that was the only person i needed to please..
on the upside ..all loved the new stuff and
life and that night was grand












very very very very early georgia fair concepts

this is like an ultra rough version of what
i had in mind for not only sony signed band
georgia fair but its an idea i have had for
myself for going on 2 years now..the idea is
to have a hand painted version of this indian/
venetian head dress photo shopped over the top
of one of their studio pics



this is a rough version on a pre exsisting pic
of the georgia fair boys

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

sym city

after the last under tray art was given
the thumbs down from stoop we worked on this
idea of the city at night contrasting with
the brightness of the front cover..in a way im glad
those thumbs were pointed south



Monday, August 24, 2009

projections of the way life used to be part 4









Wednesday, August 19, 2009

mood ring concept

boy oh boy it's been a busy couple of days
around here..but anyways
heres a poster i did for sam feilder
i have done a poster for him before
for the new prophet..i think the deal
is he is going for funding and is looking
for posters to put as part of the package..
anyways the brief was biker girls and trippy-ness
i believe this fits the bill

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

very early ernest ellis concept

so this is my first gig with dew process
which i am super excited about..they are the
label who gives us sarah blasko, the panics and
whitley ...anyways my concept is for this hunted
warhorse to be bleeding ink spots that have imposed
on the images of foggy locales full of hunters..
i hope it will be one long massive artwork..
the concept is a mixture of me and the lead singer
and dew's marketing team..the album is called the hunted
so they are eagre to have someone hunted..


projections of the way life used to be part 3

this is the first concept i came up with
although back then i had it more 9/11 but
i thought i would settle the fuck down and
make it more like moths to the flame than
my little end of the world visions



i've been wanting to pop this candle hat on something
for a while..maybe next time i will construct a chandelier
hat..

frenchmex

Every once in a while i come up with a
concept i get really really excited about
this frenchmex-ing was one of them..for me
its like the beautiful child of two great
loves..french excess and the mexican day
of the dead...so the story is that the EP
for
boy and bear which has the lighthouses is
shelved until next year to be used on their
yet to be finished EP ..this however is for
their single..mexican mavis...

boy i do hope they share the joy



Monday, August 17, 2009

projections of the way life used to be part 2 round 1 ...fight!!!

oh the utter joy of drawing a
mismatched cock fight


Sunday, August 16, 2009

projections of the way life used to be part 2

steeped in stoop part 2

as the band has decided on a digipack
cd packaging then further art artworks
where needed for the inlay,under tray and
cd itself..





Thursday, August 13, 2009

projections of the way life used to be

this archer and ice cream truck is an idea i've
for ages..mainly i daydreamed it when i was thinking
about what kind of dlc video i would make if i
had a budget..and this image is how it would open..



this was one of the first images i thumbnailed
and even though it went through a few different
versions i kept coming back to this image of a
priest with a gun..i wanted a camera man there
too but the town folk would not have that kind
of technology..better to mae it more conquistador
type



this is the first image for the background
projections to be played at dead letter
chorus epic august magnificent show..it will
be a huge night with strings and choirs..

i like it a little rough

this is a rough concept sketch for an idea
i had for FRENCH MEX ..which is a crossing of
marie antoinette style french excess and mexican
day of the dead...it came about after boy and bear
manager asked if i could do a cover for their ,just
about to be released single Mexican mavis.

so i thought a hybrid of frida and telouis would be fun
anyway this is a rough sketch i drew on the bus of what it
might look like

Monday, August 10, 2009

you gotta keep em renovated

this idea came from me unable to doodle
something else..which was an arm coming out
of a leg..i was on the way to dims when i
had a rush of ideas ..four or five..i love
these moments..and when taz said this was
a farewell show the bird flying the coop
seemed to fight like a glove

Friday, August 7, 2009

steeped in stoop

second draft
these are the revisions after serge and the boys
had a look and made a few slight suggestions..







the back cover first draft

FIRST DRAFT
so with most things..this started simple..me being
a bit too into xrays of animals..suddenly as i kept
going it seemed to make sense to add a victorian age
town and have jellyfish smoke...will sending this
off post haste to serge to see what he thinks..
this will be used for both an EP art work and gig
poster if given the thumbs up

Thursday, August 6, 2009

now in wonderful 3d

so in a week which saw me watch all three
back to the futures and coraline in 3d im
pretty into the whole 3d thing..more so
the old school 3d glasses..anyway this idea
started as just a man in a powdered wig with a
ship in his hair and some glasses then evolved
into this larger than life nod to old 3d picture
books..anyways i hope they like it..cause , fuck it,
i do!!
space has been left for the dates to come in a month
or so's time


Wednesday, August 5, 2009

a circus of chorus'

as with most things this poster started out as
something completely different and that idea
evolved into something else and then that became
this and it looks nothing like the original idea
which i might post along with this...

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

tell me what you see...series one

lately i have been really into making these
ink blot tests of of animal bones , so when i
was asked by the booking agent at oxford arts
to do a poster for a night called natural selection
well, the two seemed the perfect marriage
also is signage..



Monday, July 27, 2009

hi bill..hi fred...just another days work in space

It seems i have a bit of a thing about
antiquating space these days..anyways i was
thinking about this looney tunes cartoon where the
rivals clock in and out at the end of each day of
tit et tating..then when doodling i thought about the
space race..anyways heres the result and serge from stoop
seems happy enough with it for me to do his EP..yay


Tuesday, July 21, 2009

back from the dead

so the clip is going viral supposedly ...
its been up on my site for a few days and has
gotten some really nice reaction



so i was asked this morning by sony to re-edit the old kate
miller heidke clip for mama into her latest chart topping
song last day on earth..if this works this could be a giant
boost for me..its already ear marked for video hits this
weekend


Thursday, July 16, 2009

ps.jack carty concept



this is an early concept for the cd art
as a pps i sent the concepts through to
him and he flipped so i hope these ideas
are close to being the actual art


also there is this colour concept..i like this for it dynamic
splashes of colour but maybe i prefer the sepia toned one because
it looks like a weird silent film

jack carty concepts

so as i was on the interweb the other day
i decided to check my myspace..something i
don't do as often as i once did..there i
found a week old message from jack carty
asking me if i might wanna do album art for
him ..he had seen my emma davis and leroy lee
stuff and liked it ...so i emailed back and
waiting nervously to see if the offer was
still there..in the meantime i worked up
these concepts that had struck me while
buying a chicken ceaser wrap for lunch
anyways..fingers crossed he likes them

front cover

back cover

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

the boy and bear ep continued

after the band requested something
more old world and wearing an animal mask
the astronaut was replaced by this native indian
wolf character..fingers crossed that it passes muster




Thursday, July 9, 2009

groupie magazine

http://www.pagesonline.it/groupie033/holder.html

above is a link to the online edition of groupie
magazine where my audreys entry is displayed as a
finalist...yay

Monday, July 6, 2009

the boy and bear ep

UPDATE
on a whole the band liked it but has asked for the
astronaut to be replaced with something more from
the old world..which is not a problem for me

first draft
ok so this is the most nerve racking time
when you sent it off to the band and you
have no idea what their response will be..
fingers crossed





disc art
i wanted to keep this fairly simple and
have the lighthouses kinda make a clock
face


stages 4
the astronaut had to be like an old 70's
style astronaut ..mainly cause i liked the
orange jumpsuit..the issue with this has been
my war between wanting it to be detailed but
not having it a mess when shrunk down..the
removal of the canvas texture helped with this..
as a side note i really wanted him to look like
ernest hemingway or atleast how pappa would have
seen him self as the old man



stage 3-lighthouse island
finding the right way to do the island was tricky
at first i wanted a manhattan island sized island
full of lighthouses..an idea i might keep to one side
for further boy and bear material ..in the end a rottness
island sized island was the best option..it seemed to hold
more of a mysterious island quality to it



the lighthouse
the lighthouse took a while to create..to have
one lighthouse that can look like a town full
of lighthouses with out it looking like i just
cut and paste was a hard balance to find


stage 2- background texture
as done before in their poster i wanted
the weathered and textured backgrounds of
my boy and bear stuff to be a link from
project to project..my aim is to have it
look like an old movie being projected onto
old tattered wallpaper


stage one-the concept
the idea of a an island filled with nothing
but lighthouses has been in my head for a
while..it wasnt executed earlier because i
had it on hold for a childrens book but after
reworking that i decided to attach it to this
project mainly due to the fact i wanted something
bold an unseen before to be placed behind the
lost at sea astronaut .


Wednesday, July 1, 2009

going to the chapel.....






heres the logo for the name cards
at my mums wedding and a mock up

Monday, June 29, 2009

totally addicted to bass..saul bass


heres an image to drum up interest in a film
being made by sam fielder. its an odd tale filled
with supernatural things..i thought an ode to bass
and 50 and 60's poster design would suit..but with
a modern twist

Thursday, June 25, 2009

chillin with the coolin


i really like doing posters
for a monthly indie night and
i feel this makes up for last
months rush job

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

bear and boy




stage 3
adding little details like this lantern bird
and colour grading more and then ofcourse
the type...



stage 2
combining the illustration with old newspapers
and parchment i get this weathered textured
backing and then colour grade and light to
match.


stage one..
inspired by peter pan and little nemo
i really wanted to do someone sailing
on a cloud..originally the captain had
an octopus on his head but that looked
silly..

stage 3 soon

Sunday, June 21, 2009

sweet snuffings




this is a concept image for a masthead
for my friends mase and jess' zine.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

the audreys poster comp.

its amazing what a bit of aging can do
to a poster..i went from liking to loving
this one now...of course that will change
as soon as i start my next project...sigh




i dont usually enter poster comps but
this one seemed to tempting to pass up..
esp seeing the audreys have a rich history
of great posters..theres also the golden
carrot of being featured in a magazine..
niiiice...so fingers crossed..lets see
how my ode to french poster design goes

Monday, June 15, 2009

grin and bear it




here's an early version of the latest crooked fiddle
poster..its a lot different to how i first saw it
but with most things it evolved into something better
along the way..although the b&w version may be closer
to what i had in mind

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

space man i always wanted you to go into....space man


time to go a little different
time to go futuristic

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

your'e invited to....




twas an honour getting to do the invite and
order of service for my mums wedding...loved
playing with this type too..making it all old
newpaper in style and kerning

Monday, June 1, 2009

the spruced suess duece





the 2nd poster for the monthly indie
night club

Thursday, May 28, 2009

i want to ride my bicycle..i want to ride my bike





lately i am really really into riding my bike
so i wanted to incorporate this into a poster
( also giving herc the bike is a nice in joke)
but i wanted to have this in the dead letter
world ..so rather than have a manimal simply
riding through town i thought it fun to have
him carrying the town with him like a bunch
of balloons...weirdly the background valley
is an odd ode to kid A

Sunday, May 24, 2009

folk you.. i wont do what you tell me



i was asked to help out with a poster
to help raise money for 3 people wrongly
imprisoned during the G20 protests and as
a massive fan of the protest posters of the
60's i was more than happy to do this little
ditty

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

the spruced suess




this poster once drawn for youth group
but as it turned out the event failed to
happen and the organizers asked me to bring
it back from the dead for this one off indie
night of joy at the oxford art factory

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

sunny day..everythings going my way...







Day one
today i created some of the characters to fill the
cardboard sesame street set for bubba jacks first birthday
if all goes to plan this should end up looking
pretty good..will blog the progress

Monday, April 27, 2009

how i beat.com

another 2 logos..more to come



UPDATE
four more logos




heres some revisions




logos always make me nervous and
even more nerve racking is doing for
something as serious as medical blogs..

so these are early versions of each blogs
logo . they range from depression and anxiety
to homelessness and drug abuse...so i will
post the finished results but this is how they
stand as a series at the moment

Monday, April 20, 2009

funny mood



creatively blocked on my logo job
i turned to this as a means to amuse
myself..its nice defacing everyones
fave radiohead "destroyer"

Monday, April 6, 2009

delighted to meet you


udate: the business card





inspired by old 30's hat check girls
this is a web graphic for my sisters
awesome cupcake site

Thursday, April 2, 2009

shoot the player :bob evans






for amy and jon this was a tough shoot
but for me it was a blast cause i had
great locations..an act who wasnt shy
and all my creative juices seemed to be
flowing

rise of the ghost tree

UPDATE
heres the reworking of it for street press



fingers crossed the final version


UPDATE
this is a slight reworking at the request
of the band and management..i dont really
mind as the light ray seems to work
better on this version




this image of a tree being dressed like
it were part of the mexican day of the
dead has been in my head for a few weeks
now..so when asked to do another poster with
no creative restraints i jumped at the chance
even though it was a two day dead line..

daz poster

the dim tree





poor dim got to see the full
spectrum of my creative emotions
whilst i painted this tree mural
for her new room..i think an owl
may be added at a later date

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

abracadabra




This is a housewarming gift for the
godfather of magic and twee..mr mase dogg

omg





my fave kids book + spike jonze+ arcade fire
wow..this is blog worthy

only by the night


tis a re-working of one of the earlier
took took images to fit more into the
story and tone

Sunday, March 22, 2009

festival of flight


based on old air shows that travelled
the country this is the last took took
image for a while..this one is kinda
personalised as i drew a version of
jack and i watching the took tooks
fly over

card shark

this is a quick business card i made
up for a client of the print company
i do work for on the side

redjayaway

this is a fairly literal translation but
sometimes a simple concept just seems
apt and it works better than some of the
hair brain ideas you've had

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

dead french new wave



I based this poster on Jaques Tati
the famous french comic , i always
liked his ultra french style posters
and thought it would be fun to warp
that image a bit

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

life in technicolour


circus took tooks and spying
took tooks in the sky...these
kinda just flowed outta me which
maybe means i've got my rythm
now..

Monday, March 16, 2009

more took tooks


spent st patricks day drawing
drunken circus birds for a semi
deadline tomorrow..a respite will
be had and a brew drank along with
a silent cheers to the took took from me

the circus is coming


been drawing up this circus scene
for the took tooks..was mighty
pleased with this ringleader so
i thought i would post it up

Thursday, March 12, 2009

dead letter easter

asked to do an easter gig
poster for dead letter I racked
my brain to try and avoid the
usual images when i scribbled
down the above image on the train
..after about four days of work, i couldnt
be happier with result

Sunday, March 8, 2009

pARTy


art works for elissa and blakes
friday 13h engagement party..

emma poster

heres a poster for emma davis'
gig in brisbane..it kinda makes me
think of a car commercial but maybe
for the most eco friendly car possible..
also this is possibly the first poster i have
used helvetica on..yay

Sunday, March 1, 2009

shameless ripoff


ha ha heres my shameless ripoff
of shepard fairey's oboma hope
campaign poster..done pretty much
to amuse myself and to have a silly
profile pic

Thursday, February 26, 2009

took-scapes


stage two
now added with the forground elements of
performing and robbing took tooks and the
house and unwitting local being robbed



stage one
the background
this is probably one of the most
layered backgrounds i have done
in a while even though the block
colours make it seem rather simple..

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

marching off to war


the first image produced for Mr Julius' Took
Took childrens book,,this panel shows the islands
people marching off to war and leaving the took
tooks circus to close...

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

update

just to add to my many side projects,
how many can one person have? i have
decided to get into doing some doiley art
and some 3d/pop up style framed art work..

Monday, February 23, 2009

sgt peppers lonely monster band

heres a nice tip of the hat to the beatles
ok ok so my last few posts have been side
projects ..time to get back to it...back to the
took took

Saturday, February 21, 2009

once you've popaganda'd you cant stop-aganda






even more..i think it's
a mixture of my love
of satire and copy writing
that compells me to churn
these out on my down time


Saturday, February 14, 2009

sudden rush to the head

this image came to me as i was
waiting for chicken katsu sushi
i raced home and produced it
relatively quickly..if only all ideas
were as easy

daz electric skeleton t shirt

it's not yet approved but here is my
vector art for darren's new t shirt..
its a combination of the amusement
park theme and his beloved electric
skeletons

Thursday, February 12, 2009

stick em up






these side sticker projects are so
much fun and so easy to produce
i find myself doing them evertime
i have some idle time...
" it appears the devils hands have
been busy"

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

more popaganda







i'm slowly building my army

of random stickers to place

around the city...

port o' brian



this was a fun shoot with the current
indie "it" band..we played in the graffiti
tunnel and main quad at sydney university

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

dazzler


some art needed to be placed
on the cd cover that incorparated
daz's name so this electric skeleton
branded pinball machine seemed just
the ticket

Monday, February 9, 2009

first rough look

theres alot still to fix and add but heres
the 1st rough version of the darren hanlon
b-sides album

yet more daz art


yay boats on angry seas
getting to do my old school
stuff..this time with the daz
suggested amusement park

Saturday, February 7, 2009

more daz goodness





Friday, February 6, 2009

popaganda

i have been messing around
in my head with some cheeky
posters ideas to put up in sticker
form around the inner west

more daz art


Tuesday, February 3, 2009

darren hanlon's album artscapes


this is an image that's been in my
head for over a year now..hopefully
its one of about half a dozen that will
make up the wallpaper for daz's album

Monday, February 2, 2009

good news

i got great news last night that i will
be illustrating darren hanlons next album
in a kinda wallpaper design..plus a t-shirt
design and still on the cards is the video..
exciting times...which i will blog of course

zonk monster


heres a monster i drew inspired
by jack that has turned into
an bsession..it may turn into a
large array of versions of this
particular guy..so far theres indian
monsters ..sgt peppers monsters and
sailor monsters...the sky is the limit
with these dudes

shoot the player : reggie watts


we shot reggie on a hot weekend
at the infamous harry's cafe de wheels..
he played a couple of songs and then
played a free style jazz riff on the piano

Saturday, January 24, 2009

early days

video

i emailed darren hanlon about a vid we
discussed doing this morning..i worked on this
bare bones future city scene just to see if
i can do it....if he says yes

shooting the player:cloud control


Twas an early start on a sunday morning
but it was worth it to photograph cloud
control playing two songs for the sydney
festival edition of shoot the player..
with the left overs of the night before
and the local crazies spectating the kids
played old fave old books and new fave
hollow drum...






Wednesday, January 21, 2009

the doctor is in



the first project done on my laptop
using photoshop..yay..so this is for
a music festival in petersham where
the headline act is youth group..im
hoping the suess-ness of this and the
bold colours will attract a fair amount
of attention from punters and ..wink wink
youth group


Sunday, January 18, 2009

shoot the player : dead letter chorus

twas a hot afternoon in surry but
dead letter played a fantastic set
of 4 or five songs that had kids
and passerbye becoming eagre
spectators....gabs played 1 or 2
songs on the sydney festival piano
..this concept will be part of a series
shot by shoot the player

Friday, January 16, 2009

silly mexican wave hat

yay head wear based on puns..
this was for nats mexican party

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

preview show images










so the show went well, if not a little dimly lit
but the entire night was a sell out event..which
is great plus i may be adding to these for the
big artssue

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

speed drawing

been working pretty intensely over the last
week to get images ready for the preview
show..here's some snippets

video

below is a massive street scape image for
the show , which i now wish i had recorded
for the speed draw





Monday, December 29, 2008

childrens book of revelations preview image


my day with soko


the first three pics are from tthe shoot the
player shoot we did with the infamous
french songbird soko ..she played three
songs , new songs, in waverly cemetry
and we filmed here trapsing through the
beachside resting place..again i think i have
a cameo as a useless egg shaker ..sigh but its
all good..afterwards we headed to bondi
where we hung out and she missed her
sound check..naughty...as a favour i told
her i would make here a pair of alien ears
for her gig..so using a mickey mouse hat and
an old tv antenna i fashioned a alien headress
which she donned for her encore and also
gave us a nice shout out for doing so...
twas a strange and fun day and kinda
demystified that whole celeb thing

Sunday, December 28, 2008

jacks room





using jacks fisher price dummy
as our colour swatch , dim and i
spent the last weekend of 2008
creating a new room for our bubba
jack...we hope he love it as much
as we do

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

emma davis




this was a fun marriage as i had in
mind something to do with a car made
of flowers and then emma asked for some
thing that involved her much loved vw
beetle...its nice when things just click
so this is for peats ridge promos in the
form of a postcard...with more work
this will become the front cover of her
ep...the inspirations on this were very
much jay ryans cover of chabon's final
solution papaerback

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

the childrens book of revelations



today saw the first full day of
work on the art collection known
as the children's book of revelations.
its an exhibition i aim to hold mid
year with lots of works the denote
just how fucked the world has become
but done in a playful and whimsical fashion..
the first half a dozen images will be
previewed at the post festival festival
and these two rough images are
from two of the art works that
will be on show...
also on show 20 of my fave gig posters

Monday, December 15, 2008

invasion in stereo-o-o-o

i had so so so much fun doing this
and as a side note , please notice
there will be art by me on show..
this art work is a loose sequal to
last years post festival festival
poster which can be seen for
historical value here..

so french , so chic


here's my biz card ode to le chat noir

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

back to the town of magnificent

this is the early version of the single 
cover to down in your valley...this is
of course subject to change at the whim 
of the band but for me its an image..star
gazing that is..that ive been wanting to do
for a while and was going to have on the 
augie march album cover that fell through

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

evolution number 9

this idea just occurred to me and it filled
me with such excitement that i had to blog
it so i can remember it later....
so i want to spend a year drawing the evolution
of a city from paddock to cottage to booming
metropolis ..and at its anchor point the original
cottage de-evolving....my hope is to draw
atleast one building a day ..maybe more for one
year...in the last quarter i will keep drawing and
animate and ask the musicians i know around
sydney to contribute a section of score or voice
and have the music build like a phillip glass piece..
im really excited by this and i wanna ear mark its
first showing on my 34th birthday which is insane
seeing i am 32....
if i go ahead with this i will document the stages
of its progress as i go along..

peace out

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

riders on the crooked storm


this poster was going to be something
completely different , like two business
tie snakes fighting like cobras..but it didnt
look so hot when done..this idea had been
floating in my head for some time and seemed
perect for this type of poster

Thursday, November 27, 2008

a magnificent xmas


heres a weird fox version of the von trapps
singing carols and erecting xmas trees in
the woods in the dead of night...this is my
first xmas gig poster for this year.yay i hope
i get more ..i really dig doing em

Monday, November 24, 2008

smells like teen spirit

heres the finished (unless changes are asked for)
version of the high school campaign for atyp

Sunday, November 23, 2008

heres another stage in the teen beasts


Thursday, November 20, 2008

the class of 09






i've been trying to get the teen
monsters right for about a week
now and i think i finally cracked it..
so heres some early unrendered sketches
..ps is it ego or therapy putting the high
school version of yourself into a poster

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

very early concept for mr hanlon

heres a really quick sketch i have
been floating in my brain for a while
will send this when coloured ,bg'ed and
bordered to darren and see if he wants
it for either the under the clotheseline
or his december tour

speed drawing-teen monster

video

boy i wish i could draw this fast..
ok so this is for the teen atyp monster
poster ..having many kids to draw i use
a template of face and body type and then
with each character give them their own
characteristics..this one is the cheerleader

Saturday, November 15, 2008

THE RETURN TO PAC MOUNTAIN

I will be working with the boys
from the small hours as part of
their design print bizness..first
up is a fun poster for their up
coming world bar gig..i liked
doing this poster alot as it plays
with both colour and shape and
retro gaming...it also suits the band
and venue which is always a plus

shooting the player : the desks



despite a few delays and the
fact i had to run off to a
wedding this shoot in a burnt
out house in summer hill was a blast..
wow i wish every street had a burnt
house to play in...as long as its not
mine



Thursday, November 13, 2008

chatting up a storm



i wanted this to look like if andy warhol had
been a sk8board designer in the 50's and had done
the velvet underground album...
ps i have so much fun working with mr cheshire.



Monday, November 10, 2008

urban monster children

a new version for the atyp monster
poster ad

Thursday, November 6, 2008

a big day for took tooks





today is indeed a big day for
took tooks and me as i go off
to meet the author with these
concepts for his book..if given
the go ahead excpect to see
alot more took took related
posts...above is the third
colour concept of the took took
and a very early concept of
the island of cap

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

the took took ..now in colour

these are 2 out of the 4 variations
of took took birds i have to present
the author at our meeting

Monday, November 3, 2008

the chats in studio


the amazing trio of ben,dan and joe
hit the studio to record some f the
most catchy diddy's you'll hear this
year...i was lucky enough to take some
pics in the last hour or so of recording



Sunday, November 2, 2008

crooked tshirt concepts

early drafts of the crooked fiddle
t shirt..

little monsters first draft

heres what i just sent through to ATYP
for their schools campaign

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

something modern






some "highlight pages" from the
thoroughly modern milly booklet
also im rather happy with my
milly emblem

crooked fiddle street press



a spot colour hand drawn version of
their EP cover for street press

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

beach house video

http://vimeo.com/2015036


i have a cameo and a credit on this awesome
shoot the player video and it captures
victoria and i making squeeky sounds in
the sand with our feet...good times

Sunday, October 19, 2008

just a quick note






was rather pleased to see three colour ads
by me in this weeks brag..one full page
colour too...as an act of sheer vanity
I took some pics

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

polar opposites



one is a brooding epic scaled street press ad for what
may be the best australian album of this year...
the other is so colourful and simple i am
shocked it came out of me



Tuesday, October 14, 2008

the took took

a very early concept sketch of the took took bird
from the childrens book i will be illustrating
this is one of three early concepts..and will
be developed over the next few weeks with
the author



Thursday, October 9, 2008

john columbus demo cd art


this image will also be carried through

to the poster art for the hoey residency in

novemeber

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

i dont think your ready to bust this jelly

so heres the poster minus the information
type in the mid -section again i'm steering
towards this unrealistic overly saturated
colour palette something i now prefer...
actually dead letter may be the last time
for a while i use realistic colouring

i dont think your ready to bust this jelly part 1


heres an early drawing of my moster sized jelly fish
for the fuzzy presented dance night DISCOASIS
its hard to tell from this where its going but
the finished image will be an explosion
of colour and playfullness






Monday, September 29, 2008

going to grace land





this was a race against time in construction...
all the elements produced at home but then
the final images were created at kinkos
using their photoshop..i had twenty dollars..
what i could get for that determined the
work..i think its got its moneys worth though

Sunday, September 28, 2008

the town of magnificent tour





without a scanner or a main computer to work with
these images have been really hard to create as it had to
match the previous work done on said , dead computer

Friday, September 26, 2008

the town of magnificent


The town is really starting to take shape.
which is a good thing seeing this is due early
nextweek

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

sweded posters



Sunday, September 21, 2008

cassettopus series






three options sent to fuzzy

cassettopus







final version of this poster up soon

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

new cuthbert art

this week will se two new poster for cuthbert
this is the first for their halloween gig..lead
singer richie dared me to do something a
little fucked up..i think ghosts of dead orphans
ascending to heaven after a halloween fire will
suffice ..this is also about 90 percent complete
there will be an addition of a pyro trick or treater
as well

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

one trick pony rides

so after a discussion a old story book
pop up style thing was asked for instead
of the water colours..oh well..i dig this anyway
..its nice to put evil red wolves on posters..
so heres hoping they like it

Sunday, September 14, 2008

columbus back in the studio




the boys are back in the studio
recording a new ep for their hopetoun
month long residency..theres more of
these but this is just a taste

sometimes a change is better than a holiday


a mixture of water colour painting
and photography this is an image
i will translate to their EP art aswell

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

a sequel in the works


so i have decided to do a sequel poster
for john columbus for their upcoming
hopetoun residency

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

???????

there's something weird going on and
i think its gonna get weirder......
ooh secrets

Monday, September 8, 2008

art for arts sake

so to stop myself from going
a bit mental i've decided t try
and do an artwork for myself
hopefully everyday..this will
probably fail as soon as a drastic
deadline approaches but heres
my first piece called legs 11 minus
the 9

new art


again playing with colour and composition
more than epic scale ideas..i would like to have
a big toes dipping into both worlds in future

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

fundraiser and art collector

my new titles..so last nights fundraiser at ears vs eyes went
really well ..not only did i score a greedy hen for a great price
but my art work also fetched a very decent price ...twas a great
night and a fun auction

Monday, September 1, 2008

???????????

if you know what IT is...you MUST keep it a secret..
the whole marketing campaign hinges on it


sometimes a client asking for a completely
diffferent slant..mainly cause the old slant
scared them a bit..this new slant is a great
way to try completely different styles..this
style is the opposite of my usual but it felt
really good..maybe a mix of both will become
a main stay

Thursday, August 28, 2008

new expat art

inspired by my pal stars photo from burning man last year
and my love of german expressionism and some other stuff
like moths..this is my first foray into this kind of colouring

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

so..yeah whatever

so field day dumped me..claiming my drawing of
field day wasnt field day enough and they have
chosen to go with a photo..they were nice about
it and all but it still sucks..but anyways i have
DLC and saving grace cd to do..an expatriate poster
and a childrens book..so its better i keep my shit
indie for now

Sunday, August 24, 2008

field day


so this is the new version of
the field day poster i have emailed
them ..im hoping for not too many changes...
ahh a boy can dream .....cant he?

field day version 2



so its a race against time..i have a love hate
relationship with this image..i feel
its better than a lot of my stuff and i also
feel like i could make it better...with first
deadline due in the afternoon tomorrow we
will see how it goes

shoot the player : beach house










i love love love love these guys..as brilliant off stage as they are
on..victoria is the coolest lady as well...twas a fun day ..twas a fun
couple of days ..bobbing in and out of their very cool lives

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

on the stoop poster art

inspired by old french posters and skate designer
Parra this is my effort for the very fun band on the stoop

pop up book renee poster


after the battle to get the last poster right
heres the new renee cassar poster..a concept
ewill tellveryone seemed to like..what its fate is..
only time

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

sad but happy..the brief death of wild things



so in a sad turn of events, this image for which
i am extremely proud of , will not be used for
field day but may be used for something later on...
on the upside i still have the gig and be working on
an idea which is happy and familiar territory...
also in other news i got offered my first childrens book

Sunday, August 17, 2008

the rumpus grows

Thursday, August 14, 2008

let the rumpus begin









some early sketches from what will end up being an epic
wild things inspired image for the field day poster

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

grrrr arrggg and new art



one of those days were nothing has one right
spent 10 days on one poster ..to have it rejected!
field day doesnt like any of my ideas so far and im
running out of time ..although i might have one or two
ideas up my sleeve and im still getting the run around
from all involved when it comes to the kmh clip

on the plus side i produced this yesterday and
im rather happy with it

Thursday, August 7, 2008

woot woot..i just found out im gonna be doing art for field day..this is massive

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

renee art


completed over many days , locations and
modes of transport this poster is an ode
to the old and the new..