Turkey Leg

Here's the last in the Carnival food series for Yee Haw...a high striking turkey leg! 

Pretzel boy

Finally getting around to finishing the carnival food series. Here's one I did yesterday! 

Take it to the hills!

Me and and my girlfriend  are having an exhibition together in a couple of months time, in the brilliant Here Gallery in Bristol.  The show is called entitled "Take it to the hills" after a beautiful song on a record I bought in a charity shop in Falmouth back in the day.

Heres a sneak preview of a couple of pieces. Lindsey's vigorously cutting up salvaged paper to put together her peculiar collages . I'm using this exhibition to focus on pure drawing and just to experiment and have fun. Better crack on really! If I had a schedule, I would be behind it...

Balaclava bonanza!

I came across these amazing balaclava pictures yesterday, and I couldn't resist posting them!

The BA handbook

Working on a project for Universitetsforlaget (university press, Oslo) at the mo..Doing the cover and some inside illustrations for a book called Bachelorboka, a handbook for budding BA students.. Here's on I did the other day. Quite nice to work in black and white for a change. So easy not having to worry about colours!

Hillary and Tenzing

I finished this piece last week. It's another calendar image for Peix Pharma (here it is along with two previous ones). The theme his time round was "Miracles of the World" or "Extraordinary Performances". After a few cups of coffee in a cosy cafe, far from bottomless crevasses and frostbitten toes,  Ed Hillary's ascent of Everest in 1953 came to mind. For some reason I'm really fascinated by polar expeditions and adventures that involve extremely low temperatures...Especially when they go wrong, like the Italia airship in the arctic in 1928. Anyway... The british expedition, led by John Hunt, seemed to go swimmingly however...No hiccups, non of the crew falling out, no threat of mutiny or anything...Not even any casualties! Nevertheless, a really amazing achievement, realised thanks to careful planning, good leadership and excellent team spirt! Oh yes!

Corn dog + candy apple

Here's another one in the Carnival Food series. Careless love!

Carnival Food

Working on some new designs for Yee Haw at the moment. The theme is Carnival Food. Or stick food if you like. Just finished this  Cotton Candy woman! Stay tuned for more.

Monobird 7"

Happy New Year!

New years resolution: Update blog more frequently!

Oh well..I've been busy. Here's some pictures of an extremely rare and exclusive Monobird 7" which I've done the cover for. Monobird is the solo project of Jørn Åleskjær of the Loch Ness Mouse, and boy does he have an ear for melodies! He's recorded hundreds of songs the last couple of  years, normally recording all instruments himself at home. Very Lo-Fi, of course, but I love that stuff. Check out Oslo Grammofon for more details. 

When I say exclusive, I mean exclusive! Only 30 copies have been pressed, and the cover is screen printed by me, as is a small booklet containing lyrics and credits etc.. Even though it's a small print run, it takes ages to cut, fold and staple. It's a labour of love!

Board game

Here's an illustration I just did for Vision magazine/ Futurelab. I wanted to do something graphic and simple, inspired by some old books I've got from the 60's. Dispite tryng to do something simple, I ended up with more photoshop layers than ever before. My old  computer was on the brink of collapse! I am my own worst enemy some times. The client loved it though!

HARRY MC 1977

I just love the quality of 70's snapshot photographs. They have this warm glow to them, and people and things just look so amazing. I find them really, really inspiring. 

These ones I stumbled across on the internet while I was researching something boring i can't remember. They were taken by some guy who used to be part of a  biker gang in northern Norway back in the seventies. Their parties look pretty wild, but man they must have had a lot of fun! 

Boy scout series

I've just done these two greetings card designs for Yee-Haw Industries. The theme is Boy Scouts/ Camping (obviously)... A bit cuter than my earlier stuff. I must be getting soft in my old age! I feel like a bit of a novice when it comes to animal characters, but hopefully these don't look too much like other people's stuff. 

SLAPSEFJELL

My new book has finally arrived from the printers! It's really quite amazing to see the final product after having worked on it for almost a year. I was really struggling at times, to keep the momentum, the quality and the enthusiasm up, but now that it's done and dusted I think it was all worth it. 

The story is not really a story as such. It's "a day in the life" of a made up mountain village in Norway called Slapsefjell (Slush Mountain), where you are taken on a tour around the town centre and ski slopes, get a chance to meet some of the local characters and see what's going on. It's a "homage" to the Norwegian winter,  the culture of cabin trips, skiing and the great outdoors (Something I really miss during the wet winters in Bristol!).

It's published by MAGIKON, a tiny publishing business set up by my friends and ex-colleagues Svein Størksen and Kristin Roskifte, who are both brilliant illustrators. This autumn they are publishing two other picture books ( one by Roskifte and Jan Kjærstad, and another by the fabulous Yokoland crew) as well as a nice little book on the super-amazing norwegian "pop artist",  Hariton Pushwagner. 

My (new and improved) studio

This is my studio! I have only just painted the floor white and changed the whole layout around. It's so much better now! It's in a big old building with amazing views over half of Bristol. My windows face the wrong way though, but it's really nice anyway. The building is full of lovely and talented people. See for yourself at www.jamaicastreetartists.com.

Rocket D.I.Y

I did this for a German company called EOS. It's for their annual calendar which is massive, and in a really unorthodox format. They have a different theme each year. This one was "nice projects" A pretty loose brief! It's seldom I'm totally happy with anything I do, but I was really pleased with how this one turned out. Really enjoyed working on it. 

Art-like products

Here's some of my stuff that is currently available from the Yee-Haw industries store. 

The T-shirts are really nice, if I may say so myself...Julie Belcher designed them beautifully!

Letterpress Love

Here is a picture from the old industrial museum in Bristol. It's being totally rebuilt at the moment, but I doubt the new printing room will look as cool as this! 

Athens Signs

I'm bitten by the bug now! Couldn't resist posting these groovy signs... 

Athens Street Art

I went to Athens on holiday last year. It was really great, but the traffic is ridiculous!

It was quite a lot of good street art around though. This one I think is brilliant. Don't know who it's by or anything...But what colours!