Panelpopin and lockin'

I work at Panelpop, which is a place on Brunswick street that makes frames and stone art surfaces. All the frames are made with recycled wood and backed with reused Styrofoam. When I am lucky I get to take a few home to have a play on, here are some works on panelpops:

Blue pencil drawing

water colour and etching 'Witch bribe'

etching over printed surface 'magic rug'

Come in and visit me, I am there on Wednesday and Saturday!

Blind drunk drawing in Bright

This weekend I was up in Bright with some good pals. I saw a trout jump out of water, drank from a lake, saw a group of tame deer, the stag with a tumble weed of barbed wire caught in its antlers. I saw a cat playing with a rabbit and a steel bridge that had been crushed by a felled tree. I made some sculptural installions with wattle branches and also did some very drunk drawing.

Most of this was drawn with my eyes closed 

Also this^ 

These are some ideas for comic frames:

 

wanderer looking at the moon

evil demons in the fern foliage

bushes doing lots of lookin'

mushroom interlude

siblings hiding in a lake.

All weeping eye: a comic

Bats of Leisure

Judy has a Lion

Recently I have been designing the album cover for Danish artist Julie Dybvad. Her album is called 'Judy has a Lion' and will be released in a few months I think, when I have more information I will post it here. Anyway I thought it might be interesting to show my design process

I started off with this image, a proud lion with a flag, and his owner, having a spiritual moment on some hills. Julie said the text might be a bit hard to read in the flag, and she wanted more emphasis on the work lion, which I thought was fair enough. She also wanted the figure to look a bit for confident.

So I made the flag smaller and drew some new text, I wasn't happy with this, the composition looked disjointed.

This is a fun astral inversion, this is actually my favourite one.

I also tried adding colour, but Julie said he would prefer it black and white, so this is as far as I got.

To make the figure more confident looking I drew her riding the Lion, and gave the Lion a knife which it holds in its mouth. 

I also tried colouring this one, but Julie liked the other image better. I was really great getting all this feedback.

So I went back to the old image, changed the face of the girl a bit, took the flag out completely and tried a few different fonts. This is curved lettering.

This is straight lettering on two lines.

This is straight lettering on one line.

This is some rope font, I was really happy with the words 'Judy has' but the last part went a bit wonky. I am still waiting to hear back from the lovely Julie about what font she prefers. If she likes the rope font I will try and do a better job with the second half of the lettering.

Love of Patterns

Yesterday I got two teeth pulled from my gums. So I have been resting in bed as my cheeks swell up like clouds, drawing and listening to Real Estate and Grimes live recording sessions. I have also been designing some fabric patterns for Bats of Leisure's new collection.

Animal head pattern 

tiny town pattern

Some more of Blue

My new favourite thing is inverting images on photoshop to look more spacey.

Moleskine time

Just got to scanning the pages of my Moleskine, it's been a long time.

cute boy from 1000 pound bend

girl as lion, concept art for an album cover I am illustrating, called 'Judy has a Lion'

more concept art, this time just of girl

warping landscape and floating leaf head, and also symbols with 2 A's

Fan art of Lehmann Smith, drawn at the launch for his album 'little milk'

 Some drawing of wolves for a tattoo for a special someone

 Occult yakult, drawn while up in Bright

 Two-headed gay wedding, after reading a lot about gay marriage

Star cloak, also drawn in Bright


animals drawn in Bright

more tattoo design and offensive llama

This is tattoo designing that was drawn at the launch for 'little milk'. meta.

Space animals

Pencil Pendants stocked in Modern Times

Modern Times pop up shop is stocking some of my pencil pendants, there are not many left and after I use my last sterling silver screw there will be no more for a very long time (until i get the screw cast).

^here is a photo of them. They come with silk bead cord.