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

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

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

all hours great and small

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

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

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

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

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

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

those tumbling tumble weeds

heres a business card concept for
tumbleweed productions

HALLOWEEN MESSAGE FROM JACK

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

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..

a good card-io workout

a saul bass inspired double
sided biz card

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

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!!

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

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

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

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!!

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

cloudy with a chance of kong

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

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

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

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

projections of the way life used to be part 4

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

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

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

oh the utter joy of drawing a
mismatched cock fight

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..

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

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

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

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

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...

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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 .

going to the chapel.....

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

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

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

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

sweet snuffings

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

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

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

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

time to go a little different
time to go futuristic

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

the spruced suess duece

the 2nd poster for the monthly indie
night club

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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...

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..

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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

more daz goodness

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

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

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

early days

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...

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

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

silly mexican wave hat

yay head wear based on puns..

this was for nats mexican party

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

speed drawing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

smells like teen spirit

heres the finished (unless changes are asked for)

version of the high school campaign for atyp

heres another stage in the teen beasts

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

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

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

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

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.

urban monster children

a new version for the atyp monster

poster ad

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

john columbus demo cd art

this image will also be carried through

to the poster art for the hoey residency in

novemeber

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

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

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

the town of magnificent

The town is really starting to take shape.

which is a good thing seeing this is due early

nextweek

sweded posters

cassettopus series

three options sent to fuzzy

cassettopus

final version of this poster up soon

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

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

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

a sequel in the works

so i have decided to do a sequel poster

for john columbus for their upcoming

hopetoun residency

???????

there's something weird going on and

i think its gonna get weirder......

ooh secrets

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

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

???????????

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

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

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

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

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

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

the rumpus grows

heres the first 3 rows of monster dancers for the
field day poster all lined up and crumping

let the rumpus begin

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

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

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

renee art

completed over many days , locations and

modes of transport this poster is an ode

to the old and the new..