ALL THAT GLISTENS IS NOT GOLD

BEAR GRILLS...ALL THAT GLISTENS IS NOT GOLD

truman brewery...bristol...

was lucky enough to have not been rained on over the last two days so managed to squeeze in an extra paint on this trip...just a quick one though because in the end it did what southwest does best and rained, and hailed and was really really cold...

he is wearing teeth grills, which is just about seeable...

i hadn't planned this paint so didn't bring my gold, could only buy burner tin, which is horrible paint for this type of thing so i learnt...ruuuuuuns, is really separated and doesn't have nice pressure...perfect for burners no doubt...anyway managed to bumble my way through...and was happy with the end result...

some hipstomatic fun...

THE SEVEN OF CUBS

THE SEVEN OF CUBS SHOWS HIS HAND

Hotwell Road bristol england

i originally did this illustration for a project called the rat pack card deck...

http://cardproject.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=117610860

it was a while ago and nothing has resoleved much since then, it needs a few more artists to finish the project...so if u like the sound of it join in...any way i recently did a few wheat pastes of the illustration, in fact i think i put some up in amsterdam in the spring too but anyway since the illustration was being brought back to life i wanted to paint him....

i was fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time after the see no evil project in bristol and overheard that the painting that case had done at upfest 2011 well part wheat paste was peeling off and the owner of the wall wanted it painted over, i voluntered the idea of a new painting...so stephen got it confirmed and here is the outcome...this is alink to cases painting...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/phade71/5798341162/in/photostream/

that link seems to have some of the best images of the painting, as case left it...credit to phade 71...

case is an artist that i have been following for a while now and i love his work here is a link to his website...http://www.sexyartcase.com/ i admit to feeling a bit of pressure to create a new wall that everyone would like as much as the previous...

day one left me at this stage... its going well and the passers seem to approve although a lot of people have been showing love for the old painting...pressure pressure pressure...

the bear is done and now i shall introduce the tattoos...

this shot shows how tall he is...about 15-18 ft i think...

so the tattoos are in place and below is a few close up 

the tattoos represent the human attribute in the image...tattoos are something i don't feel the need to have on my own skin, but i really enjoy putting them into my artwork...i want to work on the technique of how tattoos illustrations look more, i think i probably should have done these lines a bit thinner...

love the clubs...

hate the spades...

there is no hate without love, there is no love without hate...love who you are and learn to love what you are not...that is the idea behind this painting...

i really like how these stars turned out using the transparent black helped to create shadows that made the tattoo look like it was moving on the pad of the paw...

ca cest fin....

a little plant growing hearts and diamonds...does money grow on trees....does love grow on trees....i feel that this part of the paint helps to remind the viewer that the image has strong references to a pack of cards...and links back to what the illustration was originally about...

close up... im loving how the shadows turned out on this...

watch out lola theres a bear behind you....

special thanks to stephen hayles at upfest for sorting this out for me...

http://www.upfest.co.uk/

FORESTGATE GETS A LICK OF PAINT

THE LITTLE SHOP OF HUNTERS

i painted this for the local pet shop in my neighbourhood...FORESTGATE NEWHAM LONDON...its the beginning of a big project i am going to attempt...the project will be titled the animals of forestgate, heavily influenced by a favourite book of mine when i was a kid..the animals of farthing wood...the idea is to create a trail of animals down to the forest from one end of the hoods to the woods...

when trying to encourage someone to let me paint on their shutters , walls etc it always pays to attempt to work with their ideas, in this case the shop wanted fish as they are trying to expand more towards selling tropical fish...i immediately thought it would be fun to have a kitten hunting for the fish...the shop sells cats too so it wasnt too hard to get the idea across... 

although i have painted lots of gold fish and koi carp in the past iv never done tropicals or for that matter with sprays, so this was a fun challenge... the cool thing about tropicals, is their bright colours against translucent whites and the same can be said for the painting of them...the black background made it even more exciting watching the colours pop out...

the fish were painted completely under street light, which is the first  time i have really painted at night and so i was a little apprehensive as to how they might look in the day time, having said that with exception to sundays these shutters will mostly only be seen at night anyway so the fact they look ok in the day also is a bonus...

so lola what ya think about an oversized kitten taking over your local pet store?

well obviously im outraged...and hope that a canine appears somewhere soon, and it had better be one of me...nuff said...i will be pissing on it when ur not looking by the way....hehehehehe