Mary Blair

I thought it would be nice to talk about influences and peoples work I admire, So here is a video about Disney artist Mary Blair. 

Blair worked as a concept artist for Walt Disney in the 1940's and 50's creating concept art and colour design for films such as Dumbo and Alice in Wonderland. 

I am learning to paint again from scratch in the hope that I can better understand the subtleties of using colour and have found that there are very few books on the subject of painting in a particular style or working with colour. 

Something that has always stuck with me are the images at the end of the original Captain Scarlet series and the way in which they are painted. I have always tried to get to that level of realism with my work but never been successful, so perhaps by starting all over again I can improve. 

Anyway, sit back and enjoy the video.

I would like to know what artists have influenced you and why, so please feel free to comment below. 

Badger Press Summer Open Studio

Saturday just gone was the open studio day at Badger Press. Everyone had a great day despite the disappointing turn out, jaffa cakes and moustache cakes were eaten, some screen printing was done and lots of tea was drunk. So for those of you who couldn't make it here are some photographs. 

Hope to see you at the next one!

Moustache cakes

Moustached Dillon

A selection of work by artists who use the press was on sale

My work on sale

The new addition to the press - A Risograph printer with 

black and blue inks. More colours coming soon. 

If you have never heard of a Risograph it works similar to a photocopier, 

but uses ink. Prints amazingly quickly and is perfect for edition runs.

Screen printing underway 

The new bunting

Jaws 3d screen print exposed and ready to print.

therewassomethingwrong

If you only look at one website today make this it:
therewassomethingwrong.com

It is the home of Shawn. The man without a surname.
Although what he lacks in surname he more than makes up for with drawing skills.

Here is a fine example of his work and also check out his flickr page, but do that tomorrow,
you've already seen one website today.

Spitfire munny

Just started working on a new munny. Check out my flickr page for more progress shots.

Mike Doyle - Abandoned lego houses

Rolling through Flickr while waiting for my phone to update itself I found the amazing work of Mike Doyle. I won't try to explain his work, all I will say is he makes abandoned run down houses out of lego and they are rad.

See more of his work here:
http://mikedoylesnap.blogspot.com/

and here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7931559@N08/ 

Roll up! Roll up!

This saturday we will be opening The Badger Press in Bishops Waltham for everyone to come and have a look round. We will have paper toys for people to customise, people will be screen printing so you can see the process in action, we will have lots of work by local artists for sale and also tea, cakes and biscuits.

Badger Press 

Unit 4, Claylands Road Industrial Estate,, Southampton, Hampshire SO32 1BH, United Kingdom


So cancel your plans for the weekend and come and join us to celebrate the british summer in style!

Chimney

Still learning illustrator at the expense of a good nights sleep!

Citizen Ghost

A new print has landed in my shop this week "Citizen Ghost #1" is my first 

Glow in the Dark print. Here are some shots of the finished print, 

plus a few process pictures. 

Citizen Ghost #1 can be purchased here

Ghosts in the machine

Here are two new pieces i've been playing around with this week.

I've been teaching myself illustrator after years of using Coral Draw and I have to admit that it really is as good as people say. The 3d plug-in is amazing and i've already used it to make the flying saucer in my promo postcard.

As always comments are appreciated

Dark City Gallery

Well, the week is over and it's been pretty hectic. This week we ran a stall at a Scifi convention in Eastleigh, attended a film festival, did a camera test for a zombie film with Charmed Apocalypse and I got to record some singing if you can call it that on my friend Lord Lav's new album.
So all in all it's been a good week!

At the SF convention in Eastleigh I had the great pleasure of meeting Ross and Kellyann who run Dark City Gallery, they sell one off pieces of art and limited edition screen prints, including this screen print by Dan Mumford which I bought from them.

Four colour with glow in the dark highlights, 18x24" signed edition of 110.
Unlike the God Machine Predator screen print that I missed, I was lucky enough to see this for the first time at the show and grab a copy before they all went! The amount of work DCG had on show and the amount of knowledge they have about their prints was amazing. It was also great to see a lot of work by so many artists up close as you can never judge a piece of work on a computer monitor.

I'll upload some pics of my two new prints this week.

Thanks for watching!