Beyond the Pale

I have been working on my second book Beyond the Pale: the artwork of Kev Grey for the past 24 months and it is finally (nearly) finished. I can't tell you how pleased I am with how it looks and can not wait for it to be printed. Keep checking back in 2011 for news of its release!

In other news, I thought this photo of Alan's neck tattoo of my swallows would make a good final post for 2010...

Edgar Allan Poe

"I again plunged into excess, and soon drowned in wine all memory of the deed."

Hell yeah, Poe!

Badges

Free badges and a set of stickers (see post below) will be sent out with any order from my website.

You can't grumble with that!

My Name Is Kev

Issue 9 of My Name Is? magazine has a 22 page feature on my artwork.

I'm really pleased with the article and layout of this feature so big thanks to everybody involved.

Available to buy here

Oh Yeah

I forgot to say, my new website went online a couple of weeks ago!

www.kevgrey.com

Frankophilia!

I just framed my original Frank & Crossbones drawing to be included in Frankophilia - a group show of artwork dedicated to the late, great Frank Sidebottom!





Frankophilia
17th November - 18th December
Chapman Gallery
Salford
Manchester
M5 4NT

Gallery is open Wednesday - Saturday, 12-5pm.

Morrissey Manifestation

In November of last year I gave this portrait of Morrissey away as a gift and then a couple of weeks ago - almost a year to the day I drew it - I was having a few beers with the person I gave it to and she noticed there was a strong resemblance between the foam around the edge of my pint glass and my drawing. Spooky!

Noise Festival

I was asked to hand draw a set of postcards for an exhibition at Noise in Manchester. They're on display now and will be up for grabs at a one day auction on the 20th November.

Click here for more details.

I drew a human heart, a human skull, a human brain and... a human fly!



Bzzzzzz

Final Show of 2010

Don't miss The Wet Spot's final show of 2010 on the 20th of November where I'll be playing an extra long set of old time rock n roll!

This months flyer is a tip of the hat to one of the performers Betty Brawn, the strongest woman alive!



Check out this guy who queued up for hours just to get the best seat in the house at last months show..


Get your tickets here

New Posters

I have two new posters for sale on my website! They measure 42 x 29.7cm, are printed on heavyweight 300gsm brown paper and have all been signed and numbered.

Anchored in Love

Through Early Morning Fog I See


Click here to go straight to my shop.

You also get a free set of 4 stickers with all orders!

Sweetheart

Tough cookie Daisy Cutter showing off her new hand tattoo of my Sweetheart drawing.


Werd.

Art with a Pulse 2

My book and posters will be on sale at this travelling exhibition. From what I've heard it's well worth a look.


Click image for bigger version.

Hula Girl

The Wet Spot is this Saturday!

Rockin Bones!

Serious Sam

I finally got to see Serious Sam Barrett playing a gig at my mates wedding recently. Check him out if you haven't already..

Axetastic!

Public Service Announcement

Stairs & beer don't mix.

Never Forgive Action

My Name Is Mud

Nice use of my drawing in this video..

Summer Show

See you there!

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

17th of July

Once again The Wet Spot is nearly here and as usual I will be there playing vinyl and then propping up the bar until 2am.


I'll have a pint of Poretti, a bottle of Blue Moon or a JD & Coke if anybody's offering??

R.I.P.

The northern legend Frank Sidebottom has tragically died. I drew this tribute for him this morning...



Bobbins.

School's Out

School's Out is a new group show I'll be a part of at Artoyz in Paris, France starting on the 24th of June. All artists involved were asked to do their thing on a sheet of A4 school paper.

If you can't make it to the exhibition here's my drawing...

Pass The Torch

This one came out nice.

Welsh Dragon

New T-shirt graphic to represent all you Welshies...


Iechyd da!

The Bradford Classic

T-shirt I designed for The Bradford Classic car show taking place on the 17th of July in Bradford city centre.

It's going to be a huge event with tons of old cars, here are a few of my favourites from last years show. . .

Bon Voyage!

After 18+ hours done over a period of two years (I also had to find a new artist halfway through the tattoo as I wasn't satisfied with the quality of the original tattooists work) my back piece is almost finished!
Still needs some more work on it to finish it off, but you get the idea. .

The Hot Spot

This is definitely one of my favourite flyers I've done so far for The Wet Spot..

Deckades: Online Auction

My hand-painted skateboard from the Deckades show is now up for grabs in an online auction which ends on the 26th of April. It's for a good cause too with all the money going to Unicef so don't be stingy!


There are also some good images of the old 1980's skateboards from the show over on Jo Waterhouse's blog.

Ink vs Steel

Scott Mustapic from Ink vs Steel tattooing in front of his new 6x6ft banner.

Short Film

Deckades: Hand-Painted Skateboard

Here are a few photo's of the original 1980's skateboard I painted for the Deckades exhibition...


One of the things I used to love about skateboards from the 80's were the smaller graphics on top of the board which you would have on show by cutting a gap in your grip tape.
With this idea in mind I painted the flames on the bottom of the skateboard so they wrap around onto the sides and then onto the top of the board, so the entire skateboard makes up a complete graphic...



This is the top of the board...

And this is the main graphic on the bottom of the board...

Big thanks to howies and Shiner for asking me to be part of the show!