New Start

I am the first to admit this blog has been rather neglected of late. I myself find it much easier to talk about my work in person rather than writing it down in a post, but new projects are arriving and new opportunities are knocking at my door so I am breathing new life into my blog, it will no longer be abandoned.
On a good note my Illustrator friend Glenn James has asked me to assist him and his partner in the running of the first ever Worcester Gothic and Horror Festival. I have been given the task of running and organizing a Gothic Art Exhibition which I am extremely excited about.
Watch this space now for more frequent posts, promise.

Poems What Granny Wrote Finished Book

The Front Cover of the finished book.

Poems What Granny Wrote

As Part of one of our modules we were approached by a lady who writes poetry to illustrate 20 of her poems which would be produced into a book as a present for her grandchildren. I produced ideas for a number of the poems but it was my idea for "The Tramp" succeeded in being chosen for the book.
The idea for the ilustration I produced came from a drawing I had produced before while on a tran journey. The figure of the man seemed to fit the poem perfectly, all that was left to do was to add a bt of background. The illtration was produced in biro and watered down ink, which I feel gives the right atmosphere for the poem.

Finished ink Floyd Commission

This is the final drawing produced as a commission. It was produced entirely in biro and is A3 size.
The client was very pleased with the final outcome and hopefully he will send more work my way.

Pink Floyd Commission

In August 2010 I shared a stall at The Worcester Riverside Artists Market and was lucky enough to have quite a bit of interest shown in my work.
I was approached by a man who was extrememly interested in my Pink Floyd portrait and in December I was contacted by him and asked to produce a Pink Floyd portrait for him as a present for his brothers birthday.

This entry is primarily about a book review of an favourite illustrator recently purchased. I am refering to the artist/illustrator Victoria Frances who's work consists mainly of forlorn maidens and supernateral beings. Her work appears very gothic and mysterious. To anyone interested in Fantasy art I would fully recommend her book entitled "Favole, Stone tears". The book consists of drawings put into an order to create a narrative and it is accompanied by its own story written by Frances. The story follows a man's observations of a woman and interlinking short stories about each of the characters?drawings. The accompanying artwork is truely breathtaking, the people taking on such a realistic form as though they could jump out from the page. The intracut sdetails within the illustrations draws the viewer in even deeper and you can certainly feel yourself falling into the story. This collection is a definate "must have" for anyone interested in gothic and fantasy art.

Collections

People collect very strange things.

I myself can't help but keep my cinema tickets when I go to see a film and this has resulted in a rather large collection!

As part of a university module one of the projects is about collections and as part of this I began to research what different people collected and I came out with some very strange results.

Among these were "The worlds biggest coca cola collection", "A collection of celeb hair" and "A collection of navel fluff".

Over the summer as part of my university module I began collecting jam jars.



The question now was what to do with these jars I had accumulated?

After much thought and research into what jars could be used for I decided to portray other peoples collections and memories into jars, this way my outcome would have a personel quality for the people who viewed it.



One of my jars would be full to the brim with train tickets as I take the train almost everyday and never tend to throw my tickets away.
My next task is to hand out jars to various people and ask them to fill them with a collection or memory. The interesting thing will be not knowing what I will get back as it is now down to other people how my project turns out.