patterned goodness

Super, super, super excited about the upcoming lecture from Jenny Bowers of the Peepshow Collective...her use of colour and pattern, for lack of better words, is utterly scrumptious.

mew

Feeling totally inspired by Chris Ware at the moment; this book boasts a beautiful symphony of colours while following the goings-on of a solitary man, who has aged well beyond his years, as he struggles to come to grips with his newly rekindled relationship with his estranged father.  I've used the new graphic novel project to experiment with some colour with no real attachment to outcome...this is the beginnings of a little story I'm drafting based on a recent news article...more to follow...

galactic psychedelia...

Thank you Nigel for the very kind loan of this gorgeous little comic.  A bizarre tale from Mr Will Sweeney (the bloke who did that cover for Architecture in Helsinki) following the journey of a sandwich (yes, a sandwich) on his quest to defeat the evil villains (a German hotdog and some other unidentified vegetable) that have captured his girlfiend (a girl sandwich) and are plotting to take over Rastapopolis, the brightly coloured little world that Sweeney has created in Tales from Greenfuzz.  The most striking thing about this comic is the alluringly vibrant colour palette that gives it its otherworldly feel...

Granted, it's quite a silly story, but so definitely worth an ogle, and I would quite like to know what happens, if anyone happens to possess volume two...?

Mmm MM.

I have been doing a lot of this this week.

Update soon.

blue person shoes

I am posting this image in an attempt to relieve some of the bitterness that remains from Friday's tragic state of affairs (tired and disorientated, I regrettably omitted this file from my memory stick on the day of my project's unveiling, receiving the criticism that my images lacked a vital splash of colour.  Well here it is.  At home.)

Sigh.

a quiet masterclass

This little video is dizzyingly brilliant...I love watching these rare little insights into the illustrator's artful process.  I have been in love with Kat Macleod's enchanting ladies for some time, but I simply cannot get my head around how immediate her practice is.  It would be beyond me to dream up just one of these prints.  I'm also quite envious of all the colourful pots and tins and boxes she keeps producing (and am frightfully aware of how dull a video of my working practice would be. "Oh look, she's still drawing in black pen.  Can you believe that is her fifth cup of tea?" Maybe I should adopt some new materials...).

Note: Watching this video to the sound of 'Flight of the Bumble Bee' is entirely recommended.

folky feet

I'm sure if I could find a manufacturer for these beauties, they would be BIG.

Any takers?