Yes, yes. It’s back. The Grafik Advent hosted by me, Sinna One.
It’s flipping freezing out there at the moment, but has that stopped me?
Hell no!
My paint stained fingers have taking such a cold bashing in the last five days and they shall continue to do so until the advent is up. So here are the first few and expect to see more. Every day. Watch this space….
I must start by apologising for my horrendous lack of posts in recent weeks. I have been up to my eyeballs in projects and organising stuff that i just haven’t had the time to even blink at my wordpress.
So, SORRY!!
Right then, here is something that I’ve been involved with in the last week and that is the launch of a new pop up shop, just in time for December. If you are in Brighton this month then you should definitely come down and check it out.
Showing work from over 20 artists, we have an amazing array of arts and crafts that you wont find many other places this December.
With great bargains on artwork from Snub23, MNKY, Jemma Treweek, Ed Tucker, Sinna One, Petting Zoo, Pinky, 3 Pigeons,Mazcan, Foundry, Suzi Horn, LaFFancy, T[ERROR]ist, Petrusco’s Eye and many more.
You really can’t go wrong with purchases from this shop. And not only that but the majority of artists have submitted a one colour design for a screen print which you can get exclusively in store and see it being printed in front of your very eyes on to tee shirts and paper!!
We are open from the 1st Dec until the 24th. Mon- Sat 10am – 7pm Sun 11am – 5pm.
For more info and updates go to the Art Schism Facebook.
Once again, I am posting about the Badger Cull debate. The petition is still out there and needs to be signed. An amazing response so far with 156,000 signatures, however anyone that believes this is wrong and hasn’t signed needs to do so. Sign here
The good news is that this is now due for debate in Parliament, but it aint over yet.
In other Stop the Cull news there is a Love the Badger flash mob dance this weekend in Parliament Square from 2pm and Trafalgar Square from 3.30pm on Sunday the 21st October. Organised by the great folks at Artful Badger. More info here – ShnufleShnuffle.
And finally…My image of the Badgerfaced Blues that i painted on a shutter in Brighton as my response to the proposed cull was reposted on the RSPCA official facebook page and got nearly 900 likes. Very proud of that.
For more info on Badgers, The Cull debate and other preventative action against the cull visit these sites….
Team Badger , Stop the Cull ( RSPCA) , Gloucestershire Against Badger Shooting (GABS) , The Badger Trust , Stop the Cull.net
Well, I tell ya, I must have been snoozing as I totally missed out on posting this bit of timelapse that POOKA did for Playgroup Festival this year. Again, the Festival was an awesome one, with a fantastic line up and amazing people to boot.
Here is the vid…Enjoy.
The title track is ‘The Entrance’ by Boycom
As the summer was drawing to a close and the weather was still fine, I managed to fit in a little mural for Prince Fatty’s new album release – Prince Fatty Versus the Drunken Gambler.
Prince Fatty asked me to recreate the album artwork, originally drawn by famous illustrator JAKe, on a big wall in Brighton. The image shows Fatty, Holie Cook and Horseman ready to battle na Kung Fu stylie.
This was another challenging commission, as I am so used to drawing my own artwork, and it took a day just to get the original sketch to how it should look.
I was happy with the end result and more importantly, Fatty was over the moon.
There is a time lapse of the piece being painted on the way.
The album is out now on Mr Bongo.
Now hear dis…
This project was from last year and I’m only just getting around to posting the pics.
Gobi is a Mongolian barbeque restaurant in Brighton. I was asked to come in and brighten up the cloakroom.
The designs are not my own work, but the work of a Mongolian artist named G.Batchuluun.
Both pieces are from batik style paintings. The first depicting the goddess of Art ‘Yanjinlkham’ and the second depicting Ghengis Khan. Link to these images here – Mongolian Shop
It was interesting to paint in this style as they have a slightly buddhist art style to them. Something that I felt that I explored a little bit more on my travels in India a couple of months after this.
I am currently having a move around and rejig of my wordpress. It may change a few times until I’m happy with it, so until then please bear with me I hope that you enjoy the images and posts coming up on here….
Thanks.
Another great summer, despite the weather, but plenty of painting got done and to top it all off, I took a visit, along with other Grafik Warfarers and new found friends to Amsterdam Noord for the Paint and Beer event at Villa Friekens.
This year is Paint and Beers 6th year and the Paint was spraying, the beer was flowing and the Chronic Sounds were pumping…
Here are a couple of images from the event. Visit my Facebook page for more flicks….
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.310689845695796.68398.100002643481899&type=3
With the current and ongoing news of the proposal to cull up to 70% of Badgers to stop the spread of Bovine TB amongst cattle, I have been painting Badgers again in a bid to get people to sign the petition to stop the cull.
It is barbaric and unscientific.
For more info and a link to the government petition visit Teambadger.org
You can also visit the page of my good friend Badgerface Jones on Facebook. There you’ll find a lot of my images and links to info on the cull and other Badger related goodness.
Artist - Illustrator - Mural Maker 