February 12th, 2012

Werk Werk Werk.

Okey Dokes. Painting again. January was fun filled month and Febtovember should prove equally as fun. The last couple weeks have been the first couple steps into my routine for the year. Paint…..all day. But! I’m lovin’ it and I’m super excited how things are moving forward so far. Just a few quick things before we cover that stuff.  The last two weeks of January I was working on some t-shirt designs that are going to be released mid year in preparation for the tempest. They are yet to hit the internet, but I think they will be well liked. There will be two men’s designs and one exclusively women’s design. I have included some sneak peaks, but you’ll have to wait until mid year to see the actual shirts. I will have an on line store at that point where I will be selling shirts and prints as well as perhaps a few other small things like phone skins and whatnot. (those are still tentative.)

Anyways, end of January squeezed in a final commission. A back tattoo that I’m particularly stoked on. I think possibly the favourite of  the few I have done so far (including my own.) All you pretty much need to know about it is… Year of the goat, music is king, Chinese is awesome. Got to have a lot of say in this one, although not really on the size. I’m not sure how big it will be, but regardless it will be sick. I’ll try and post some on skin picks when its done.

Now…..Painting. Here is the first timelapse of  many that I will do this year. As well as a stitch photo (of which I won’t do as many.) But, it lets you kind of check in on the progress. Anyways, I started working in color as I was going but then just decided that doing all the underpainting and then going back to color made a lot more sense. so… here it is, a bunch of pics…

January 15th, 2012

Ta-2012

Actually its from 2011, but either way. Its 2012 now though. Anyways, back in Brisbane now after a long hiatus overseas full of many a good times with family and friends along with the occasional debaucherous night scattered in here and there. Since I’ve been back I’ve been juggeling with a list of things, some of which involve throwing together a magazine article for JamRock Magazine based out of NYC and finishing up with the UBC jerseys I started last November. I also spent a few hours last night lining and shading the annual tattoo design. I’ve already gotten it done this year but i didn’t get the chance to line and shade the actual sketch myself. Anyways, thought I’de breeze through  and  do that. You can check it out below. The composition is made up of all the tempest characters as well as a few hints here and there of other projects I worked on last year: Foot Locker, Munny doll etc. I left the original sketch and paper showing through on the bottom cause it kind of ads to the original feel and shows the process. Red sketch, Blue sketch…One Sketch, Two sketch…

In other news….the plan for 2012 is…. you guessed it….more “Tempest.” I have a shit load of painting to do this year. So, once I finish up my final projects and organizational stuff for the year I will be busting my ass for the next 11 months to finish it up. Let’s just say I’m not expecting a lot of outside time this year… I’m also choosing to be very picky with commissions this year. Not that I ABSOLUTELY WON’T take any, but they have to be beneficial to me in other ways besides just quick cash….That being said, if you have a project you want me in on, don’t hesitate to email me and I’de be more than happy to discuss it with you. But, I am looking forward to starting up painting again. Its been about a solid two and a half months since I’ve held a brush so it could take some getting used to. Anyways, should be good and I’ll try to start up regular posts and time-lapses once I start painting.

October 17th, 2011

…Relapse

So this week, although I wasn’t gunna post one, I had filmed one anyways just for shits. I’m trying not to give too much away about the finished product so that’s why I haven’t included any pics, but after the 27th I’ll have loads of pictures and hopefully the videos will make a little bit more sense. This was a 5 hour session, but I had to speed it up cause the video was WAY too long and boring and in retrospect i could have sped it up more even. Anyways, you don’t have to sit through the whole thing, but I think because this song is the hotness your gunna want to. Chiddy Bang  featuring Mac Miller – “Heatwave” off the FREE mixtape “Peanut Butter and Swelly“ (I couldn’t decide what format you put album titles in, so instead of looking it up i used ALL formats!!). You can download the mixtape here.

All that being said if your in Brisbane on thursday the 287th please come and check out the show; Mo’ Munny Mo’ Problems 7-10pm, Bakery Lane, Ann Street Fortitude Valley 4006. You can check the deets on the facebook page……AND ON THIS POSTER!!!!!

October 9th, 2011

SHa……..Zam Wild Rick……shazam.

Ok so this week I finally got my shit together and got the timelapse all done early in the week, set up my new comp, so I’m ready to handle it. Anyways, “Rick” is coming along swell, just finishing up all the animalia today and I’ll hopefully be able to finish up everything in time for the show although i haven’t really started the hard part yet, so we’ll see. This next bit is where the time really just disappears. I may not post any pictures next week just to keep the whole thing a little bit of a secret before the show. But anyways, enjoy. (I apologize, the pictures do a weird thing over the video, but still should be ok. )

(you’ll notice in the video I’m actually applying a colour layer to the under painting that i already finished. This is a more classical approach that I’m integrating into my process. So far I love the results and I’m excited to see what it offers in future paintings. Let me know what you think.  Enjoy)

October 2nd, 2011

Anything but Mundane

This week has been hectic as ever. But i got some painting in and made fair progress on the “Rick” (the munny doll) so far. I gots big plans for this bad boy and at this point i’m able to sess it out a little and approximate a finishing time of probably two more weeks. Anyways, hopefully in the end it will all be worth it. No tempest work this week, but i was juggeling a second order of Hong Kong jerseys and that ended up taking quite a bit of my time. Pretty much wrapped up with that though. And pretty happy with all the orders, they are looking so sick. When i get some free time i have some more ideas for other jerseys that i think could come out pretty cool. But thats then. ALSO, no video this week. I have one filmed but my computer is getting bogged down cause i’m running a lot of large files these days and i had to scrsp it cause it was taking too long. So, next week i will def have one. Anyways, i appologize…Enjoy the pics!

September 17th, 2011

Tempestuous Timelapse

Ok. Now that I’m finally working on The Tempest full time it would be really easy to just “check out.” BUT, I realize that people DO actually care a little bit what I’m working on. So, to stay updated I’m gunna try and post timelapses once a week exhibiting parts of the painting I think to be interesring with music that I like. So, without drawing it out too much here is the first of many. This is a five hour session.

Oh and ps. I’m gunna start listening to some rosetta stone. Because I have countless hours of my life to sit and listen I may as well be learning new languages while I do it.