In Praise of Idleness

My latest piece, featuring in the August 2010 edition of The Crack Magazine. You can read the article 'In Praise of Idleness' by clicking here or, if you are lucky enough to live in the North East, you can find copies of The Crack in art shops, galleries, touristy places and so on. They're free =]

D&AD Illustration: Don't Panic

Illustrations exploring the theme of resistance for D&AD's Dont Panic illustration brief.

MASTODONTE: THE WORLD

I approached the Colombia based consolidating publishing house, MASTODONTE, with my work recently and I was invited to take part in their debut editorial publication of art and articles on the theme of Maps.

I based my entry on a poem by Henry Vaughan called 'The World', which was used in excerpt by Bertrand Russell in his 'History of Western Philosophy' to depict a pre-socratic vision of the world.

I've just had a Drawgasm

Waste of Spheres
Digital Painting
Frost

$120


Detail

For the Drawgasmic exhibition in Saint Louis, Missouri, July 2010

In other news, Coloured Vapour member Jack Gilliland has also been accepted into the Drawgasmic exhibition and book, too!

Follow this link to take you to Frosts bio on the Drawgasmic website, Jacks entry will be coming soon.

Jupiter Approach

An illustration to accompany the close-up of Jupiter posted several weeks ago. Almost finished this project now, thank god. Expect a scribd upload of my essay about Marxist theory and outsider art in the coming days, how fun.

Kitchen II

Pretty simple follow-on exploring the theme of being socially isolated.

Fire Door

Again, for the ongoing project about depression. This one is coupled with a piece about excessive sleeping, being in bed, tossing and turning. Depressives can shut themselves away and sleep excessively to cope with their problems.

Alone in the Kitchen

From the ongoing project about depression

M1

From my up and coming project about depression. This one depicts a journey up the M20 to the M25, then up the M1 to the North.

In Bed

Melancholy

"Melancholia"
Adobe Photoshop CS4, 3 hours
Frost

Based on this piece of performance art by Olivier de Sagazan.

Insulator

Working on a new project. All will become clear eventually.

The Planets

Squawk

Got a Wacom Intuos 4 today, this is my little test piece for it. Nothing much, but worth posting I think.

Down and Out in Newcastle and Sunderland

Finally finished this small, mini summer project. I'm confident that I will be able to continue my visual exploration of the north in my up and coming 10 week project.

I know most of this has been seen but its nice to get everything together in one post.

Progress...

Aaaand here's a half done progress picture from me, Buffalo, for the collaboration with Frost.

It's not finished. At all. But I hope someone likes it so far.

The Sun

Another double page spread of my summer project completed. Its kind of looking at the prevailing attitudes of Northerners when it comes to news media. Its quite self-depreciating really.

"The Sun"
Adobe Photoshop CS4
Around 2 hours
Frost

We Passed Over

"Scans of the swarming, amorphous beings abdominal cavity proved inconclusive. The silently crowding creatures on the snow-covered surface were entirely soulless but possessed a great concentration of energy.

We passed over while evading detection from the fleets in orbit, and they did not stir."

Holy Creature

10 minute dodgy-arse speedpaint. Don't know why.

A work in progress

Buffalo and Frost have come together in a collaborative effort to say farewell to their Northern homeland before moving down South. Just to pique your interest, here are the concepts from yesterday and today, and some work in progress.