Scraps

I am really fascinated by making these sort of shapes. I think I first saw something like this done by Saul Steinberg from back in the 50's.

It is a sort of abstract construction, random shapes that looks like something solid but don't really add up to anything specific... I call them Scraps. Anyway, I had fun shading and colouring it and thought I should do more of these, maybe even try and make a little sculpture or some repeating patterns.

Big Roo Road

Here are a couple of sneak peeks at what may be the biggest, most detailed drawing i have done for years. I worked on it on weekends over summer.

The big Roo Road is all about details, everything is in focus like a pattern and it is also a bit narrative with a single character moving through the landscape. I haven't quite finished it but here are some details...

Queen Purpuss digital book cover

Here is a book cover I painted over the summer for Author Robert Lawsons digital  fantasy novel - The short reign of Queen Purpuss the 40th. It was fun getting all the cat fur painted in.

Geometric man

Hello, I've been a bit busy chasing work to post lately but have been doing all sorts of artwork. Hopefully I can get some of it up in the next little while...

Colour and thick outlines

Another simple vector bush background

Spending some spare time coming up with new and easier ways to make simple, bold bush landscapes in illustrator... Oh and designing more roo characters of course.

A few autoportraits

I am busy applying for jobs and so need to update my business card. I have been playing with a few self-portraits...might be a bit cartoony for a business card though. Would you employ this creep?

Oinky Beach

Here is little oinky piglet on the beach. Just trying out some new quick illustrator tricks...

Pattern Process

Ok here is a post mainly about some of the process I have been working on to make repeatable pattern tiles. I started thinking about this stuff years ago based on some of M.C.Eschers early experiments with stamps.

The first thing you do is work out how many times you want the edge of each side to touch.

Here is a tile that is 11 units square. The pattern hits the edge of each side 5 times (the red/even numbers).

This next tile is a little more complicated and more geometric, it is 17 units across and the pattern hits the edge 8 times.

Then you just rotate the square -90 degrees to get 4 variations...

From this one tile and its variations you can make endless patterns.

Here things get more complicated with two tiles...

And then we really get moving with a bunch of tiles and the variations.

To make more and more complicated patterns.

The next thing I am starting to work on is using different tones in the patterns and using these tones to replicate photographic images like this one of Groucho Marx using 6 tones. It isn't quite working yet but it is getting there.

Stay tuned...

More Teatowels

I finished up designing three tea towels for the BEPS fathers day stall. They all sold!

These last two I got to print myself at the brilliant Harvest Workshop on Lygon St. I was especially happy with the urban sunset image.

I mixed the ink on the silkscreen so each one had a different range of colours in the sunset, then black for the urban business on top. You can see the difference when I took out the yellow.

I am hoping to do a few more of these for the end of year Twilight Market.

Teatowel pattern

Sorry, I haven't blogged for months because I have recently moved house and it took 6 weeks to get back online...

Here is a teatowel I designed for the BEPS (Brunswick East Primary School) Fathers day stall. I didn't get to screenprint this one but I did get to print two others which I will get to in a future post.

The printing was done at the fantastic Harvest Studios on Lygon St by some other BEPS parents.

It is a two colour teatowel same print each end and a bargain at $7.

I have been doing a lot with these sort of patterns lately and will go into some detail on my process in the next post.

Oh Yeah, I have finally succumbed to the pressure and have signed up for a facebook account.