victorian theatre poster

My submission for an upcoming exhibition at The King's Theatre, Portsmouth. Took just over two days to make. Yeah I guess I'm still obsessed with Victorians for some reason.

The text was set up digitally, printed, cut into stencils, filled in with a sponge and acrylic paint, carefully tidied and then outlined with ink for extra legibility. I would've liked to have crammed even more text in there but I sadly ran out of room. Maybe a bigger canvas would've been better but I've never really worked with text in this way before so it was already a bit of a risk.
It is on A3 paper and card. The incredibly anachronistic frame puts it at 17x21".

Short Term Diary prototype experiment

I am conducting an experiment, and your assistance would be most appreciated.

For my MA I’m currently working on putting together a series of alternative diaries. They’re intended for diary-keepers and non-diary-keepers alike and draw upon art therapy techniques to deliver a therapeutic and fun experience that also sparks creative thinking. Unlike traditional diaries, they also only contain about one month’s worth of entries to keep them from being too daunting for non-diary-keepers, and to keep them from outstaying their welcome.

I’ve printed up a bunch of these prototype copies. That’s where you come in.

It is so simple. All you have to do is fill in one of these diaries I have made, and then I’ll get you to answer a quick questionnaire about it when you’re done! Dead easy. I won’t need the diary back when you’re done with it. It’s yours to keep. The completed questionnaire is all I’m after.

If you tell me your address, I will even post the diary to you for free! How great is that? (If you’re not comfortable giving your address to a stranger on the internet I can also send you a PDF for you to print out or whatever at home.)

If you want to get involved, send me an email at HowWasYourDay@Live.com

free art exhibition - success!

Sunday was a HUGE success. Who would have thought giving away stuff for free would be so rewarding, right? Massive props to My Dog Sighs for sparking the whole barmy idea, and to everyone who donated art, helped run the show and everyone who came to see it and take stuff.
Some photos, courtesy of Los Dave, m-one Art and Leila Kemp:

Here's my goofy mug with the piece I took, which was made by Emma Alice Goodwin:

And lastly, here's a lovely little writeup of the event over at teamlocals.co.uk: http://teamlocals.co.uk/free-art-friday-exhibition-with-love-southsea-portsmouth-creative-movement/

FREE art exhibition - new pieces

Some new pieces I whipped up yesterday that I will be giving away ~* for free *~ along with some other, older pieces at this show on Sunday:

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retail - new illustration

Self-directed piece about retail work and rude customers.

diaries

Currently working on a huge research project about diaries. These are some sketchbook sketches and some  choice diary entries of my own.

Sadly when doing a huge project like this there isn't much room to produce any visual work of my own, but we'll get there. I've got some collaborative projects in the pipeline as well, so stay tuned for that.

greting crads

 

I thought I'd try my hand at some simple greetings card designs. So I did that. That's them, there.

Victorians: Series 2. Also more pig stuff.

I had an unstoppable urge to paint a bunch more victorians today instead of doing what I was supposed to be doing. They're much bigger than the first set - on roughly-A4-sized card. I tried to go for a bit more variety in terms of age and build and class this time to keep things interesting.

Also here are a couple more concept sketches from that Three Little Pigs thing:

3 little pigs adaptation. Warning: Wall of text.

Part of the Visual Narrative unit on my Masters course involves creating a sequence that communicates the story of an already very-widely known and frequently adapted narrative. In this case, the story is The Three Little Pigs. Since the story is so well-known it gives us a lot of leeway and opportunity to play with it and change it up.

For my story I've decided to create a wholly unnecessary ramped-up sequel. Years after the events of the previous story, the Brick House Pig has become a successful builder and realter. Everyone in wherever-the-heck-this-story-takes-place knows that his brick houses are the safest way to go and have built a happy thriving little community. One day a new wolf (maybe a descendant of the original Big Bad Wolf) rocks into town and tries his hand at taking over where the original Big Bad Wolf left off. Knowing that huffing and puffing will no longer suffice, and the approach of climbing down the chimney clearly won't work, he has somehow procured himself a tank. The pigs in the town have to work together to stop him before he blows all their houses sky-high and eats them.
The story's ending involves a bit of irony and role-reversal as the pigs have to trick the wolf into leaving the safety of his tank so they can drop a brick on his head and kill him.

Here's some sketchbook stuff, comin up,most of which admittedly is from an earlier story draft that didn't really make sense and didn't go anywhere but still informs the current script. I'll post whatever I've got of the finished narrative (probably a script and some storyboards and a couple finished pages and concepts) once I've done it and turned it in. I'll probably post more sketchbook stuff within the next few days as well, why not.