Banjo Pickin'

Bath of Broken Glass

Nice photograph taken by InaGlo of Missy Macabre performing her Bath of Broken Glass act in front of one of my new hand-painted banners.

Did That Hurt?

Tattoos by Alex Binnie...


Tattoo by Scott Mustapic...

Tattoo Artist Unknown...

Oh La, Alright, Lah!

The world famous Bernie Dexter modeling the T-shirt I designed for the world famous Anna Fur Laxis.

Deckades Exhibition

I'm pretty excited to be one of the artists asked to hand-paint an original 1980's skateboard for the Deckades exhibition opening at howies Bristol store next month.
Alongside the hand-painted boards the show will feature original skateboards from the past 3 decades which were distributed by Shiner, with boards from Dogtown, Sims, Santa Cruz, Powell Peralta, Vision, Schmitt stix, G&S, Zorlac, Alva and Santa Monica Airlines.

I'll post pictures of my board as soon as I finish painting it.

Check out this trailer for the show:

Deckades skateboard exhibition trailer from howies on Vimeo.

Hopefully this Natas board will be in the show, I used to ride around on the same model when I was 10.

Here I am skating it in 1988...

Good times!

Rude Britannia

Fresh from the printers, this is the new flyer for The Wet Spot's 17th of April show.


I'll bet I'm not the only person to wonder what's going on under Lady Britannia's robe?

Eye Gouge Fanzine

It's been far too long since I made a fanzine (5 years to be exact) so I'm pleased to introduce my new 24 page hand-made zine, Eye Gouge!

I personally hand-cut, folded, stapled, signed and numbered each of these zines.

Limited to only 100 copies & exclusively available from my online store for £2.50.

ROLL UP! ROLL UP!

In the tradition of sideshow banner art I have been busy hand-painting a new set of large banners to be hung on the stage at this years The Wet Spot.

Original sideshow banners were always big, with a bold use of colour and clean, simple artwork making sure it would stand out a mile. They would generally be painted to promote individual performers who traveled with the sideshow, like this one for the Armless Wonder..



However as The Wet Spot features different performers at each show it would be far too time consuming to paint new banners for each of the acts so my take on this has been to paint portraits of pin-ups watching the show, all with their eyes on the stage.

Here are a couple of work in progress shots taken in my studio over the last five days...


Fresh from the printers here are the new flyers for The Wet Spot's 20th of March show which I'm pleased to say is sponsored by one of my favourite publications, Nude Magazine.

Tickets are on sale now!

Lomography Interview

Last year the Lomography Society gave me a Fisheye 2 lomo camera and asked if I would spend a week taking photographs to be published in their magazine with an interview. You can click here to read it.

A few of my photos:

Greetings

My artwork has been used on a limited edition run of greeting cards which went on sale today at Rose & Co. apothecary & boutique in Leeds.

They are also available to buy online from Vintage Vita.


It's worth visiting Rose & Co. to see all their original Victorian cabinets alone, if you like that sort of thing.

Ghastly Ghoul

Ghoul poster now available from my online store, only £8 each!


The artwork on this poster is a tribute to E.C. Comics who published the classic titles Tales from the Crypt, Vault of Horror and The Haunt of Fear.

The Wet Spot Returns!

After a three month break tickets are now on sale for The Wet Spot's first show of 2010 on the 20th of February.





See you there!

Website Update

Five new drawings have just been added to my website.


Enjoy.

Bookworm (part 2)

I don't want to make my Bookworm posts too long so for the second installment here are just a few examples of the type of reference material I use for my drawings, all from my own collection of books...

Always Was, Is And Always Shall Be

A project I've been working on for a while now is a series of portraits of my favourite musicians/singers.
It began by making a LONG list of my favourite performers, starting with the rock/metal I was listening to from 1988/89 to the punk rock I listened to from my early teens and then all the country and original rock 'n' roll artists of the 1950's I have also listened to since my mid teens.

Here are some of the portraits I've made so far:

Don Gibson


Ike Turner


Hasil Adkins


Lemmy


I'll release the whole project at some point next year when it's finished.

Out With The Old, In With The New

This month I had a total of five tattoos on my left arm completely re-outlined and shaded as I had never been satisfied with the washy, unusual grey tone they had healed instead of the black and grey look I wanted.

Looks tidy.

Crumb

Below is a collaboration I made with Sophie Crumb in 2005. An unfinished version was included in my fanzine Hobo Soul also published in 2005 but the final piece has never been seen anywhere, thought you would enjoy to see it...



Sophie is the daughter of the legendary Robert Crumb who has just released his beautifully illustrated Book of Genesis, but she is also an amazing artist in her own right so if you aren't familiar with her work you should seek it out.

New Posters

Three new posters have just been added to the shop on my website:

Behold Our End


Birds


The Wet Spot


They each measure 42 x 29.7cm, are printed on a heavyweight 300 gsm paper and have all been signed and numbered.

Cheesecake Cheesequake

I was really pleased to be asked to design the first ever T-shirt for the pin-up model/burlesque performer Anna Fur Laxis.





They're available to buy now in both Men's and Women's T-shirts from her website

Sorry Mum

Here's the latest addition to my right sleeve done by Diego at MVL Tattoos in Leeds last week. Have a look on their website by clicking here
Highly recommended!



I also recently had this Owen Jensen inspired snake by Steve at In Name & Blood just before it closed. You can see more of his work here

Happy Birthday Lost Art!

Lost Art skateboards in Liverpool is 10 years old and still going strong. Congratulations Mackey.

I was going to post a picture of a shop sign I painted for Lost Art about six years ago but then saw this picture of Daniel Johnston wearing the 'Sketch Stance' Lost Art shirt at his recent gig in Liverpool and thought I'd post this instead...



Here's one of my all time favourite songs by Mr. Johnston...

Ta-Ra

There is only one week to go until my exhibition at Howies will literally be Long Gone.