December 18th, 2011

Rumble in The South Pacific: Massive Holiday  Explosion……uth

Here is a commission I did back in July or something, kind of intermixed with around the whole footlocker fiasco. It was an anniversary present, so I promised I wouldn’t put anything up on the site until it was gifted. Anyways, now that its christmas, and it has been girfted, what could be more fit… LETS GET TROPICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

December 2nd, 2011

Bobby digital

SO, havent posted for a while. BUT, doesn’t mean I havent been busy. The month of november was pretty much dedicated to some illustration jobs I had to finish up. Sadly, this meant that I  didnt get much done on “The Tempest,” but!……. thats the breaks. On the plus side it gave me a lot of time working on my tablet. I feel like I finally have a grasp on these programs which I always just used a few aspects of. Granted, I still probably use only 3% of the programs capacity……But!…..i use that 3% pretty dang good. lol.

Anyways, there are three projects here. First, is a wine label for Philip Shaw Wines. Not only amazing, award winning wines, but also amazing people. I flew down to Orange, NSW for a quick inspirational trip. Saw some amazing plants and animals and met some amazing people. Each of the animals is one that I saw on my trip and each one also serves as a caricature of a person I met while down there. I also included a process shot that kind of breaks up the layers I work in and shows my digital method.

Next, is an Album cover for The Neu Music. Neu is an amazing musician, producer, and long time friend. We both kind of started doing our thing around the same time and have kind of progressed in parallel. Recently though he has far surpassed me and is truly creating awesome f@*$ ing music every day and finally getting recognized for it. Another group he is a part of called Head of the Herd is popping off as well and has been touring a lot lately. They will be playing the Commodore in Vancouver December 20th, opening up for The Sheepdogs. Anyways, His album drops December 21st and will be downloadable from his website  www.TheNeuMusic.com .

And finally, I’m designing the jerseys for my old team back in Vancouver. This sample I have here will be a full chest design printed in full color sublimation. In my honest opinion……. these will be so sick. lol. Not because of my design but the company that will be printing them, Five Ultimate, consistently does an awesome job and these jerseys are guaranteed to blow your mind! I may be doing an order of them for the general public sometime in Febtober or something. Just keep your eyes peeled on my facebook page, Kalin Thompson’s Art. Or feel free to email me if your interested, kalinthompson@gmail.com.

These are the last commissions I will be taking for a while. I apologize for this, but I need the time to work on my own projects. The tempest will need about 1000 hours or more till i can finish it and, time doesn’t grow on trees, lol, so I gotta get my grind on for a bit. If you are interested in commissioning me, shoot me an email and I will put you in the Que for when I finish.

Enjoy the pics!

(Sorry, no timelapse. More will come in the new year)

October 27th, 2011

Mo’ Munny No Problems

Last night= Huge success. Thanks everyone who came out, thanks to RedBull and thanks to Laced for putting on an awesome event. All the artists who participated killed it. There were some awesome designs there! And some awesome dolls being done on site. Props to everyone for workin’ it like bouses.  I got lots of positive feedback and support from everyone! which is always sweet.

On a separate note! Not ONE BUT TWO people asked me if it was “decoupage.” First off….I don’t know what that is….so….no, lol. Secondly! I looked it up and its some kind of elaborate collage. Which I guess makes it kind of a compliment? Maybe, they thought I took pictures from a “real artist” and pasted em on the doll, or maybe even PHOTOS!!! So, yeah, the ultimate compliment. lol. Also, If you got a poster you lucked out, cause at the end of the night when I went to go grab a few for my personal collection, there were none of the full frontals left. Which makes sense. Who doesn’t want a full frontal? That being said… Here are some shots of my piece (………you wish….. Get your mind out the gutter.)

“Quartermaine,”  Acrylic on 18″ Munny………. By: Yours Truly.  Around 250 hours

p.s. (feel free to snag these photos and repost them, just don’t edit out my website, cheers thanks)

Photos by Matt Leasegang

September 25th, 2011

“Mind on My Money and Munny on My Mind”

As I finally get settled into the tempest: nice long weeks, timelapses, all that fun stuff. I decided, as usual, to take on another project. Sweet. If you’ve heard of Munny dolls, you’ll get it if not…you probably won’t. But basically there will be a Munny exhibition here in Brisbane in late october called “Mo Munny, Mo Problems.” and I’ve been asked to participate. I was given the option of the 7″ or 18″ doll to paint. And, like an idiot, I chose the F%#^$ing 18 inch doll, cause, well, you know…..value. Lol. If i’m not paying for it may as well go for more. Well, that came back and bit me in the ass, cause the thing is HUGE. Its about the size of a three year old with a giant, shiny, white,  cabeza. So, now a project that I was gunna put three days into, looks like it may take closer to a week or two, maybe more. All that complaining aside, I have what I think is a pretty sick idea, so hopefully, now I just have to execute.

So, next week I’ll try to post some Munny painting timelapse… and if I’m really diligent, I’ll get some more tempest work done too.  but yeah, we’ll see when we get there. I’m not so hot at juggling projects.