Driver Dan's Story Train

© Story Train Ltd 2009

© Story Train Ltd 2009

© Story Train Ltd 2009

Long time no blog! I have been really busy these past 6 months
having a fun old time working as part of the Aproductions animation
team for Cbeebies' TV series Driver Dan's Story Train.
So here are some illustrations I did on the last series for a story called
'We want to'.
You can catch some episodes here: Driver Dan's Story Train

Pixillion - Paper engineered rocket!

Bristol based Pixillion digital commissioned me last November to illustrate and design a pop-out rocket promotional card for their company. It was brilliant fun and great to do a bit of paper engineering - would love to do more.
Pixillion kindly gave me a feature on their blog - click here to see the whole process and feature:
http://www.pixillion.com/blog/2011/promo-rocket-article.html


A screen shot of the front of the card.

One of the designs put forward.

The Rocket all slotted into place.

The back of the flyer with building instructions.
To see more of Pixillion's work click here:
http://www.pixillion.com/

The Avon Wildlife Safari

Here is my latest painting completed in December 2010
in my cold cold studio at Jamaica Street Artists.
It is currently hanging and for sale in the RWA exhibition INSIDE OUT.
I have posted a few pics below taking you through some of the
creative steps....

Finished - just needs some varnish!

Details to paint...

Working late at night and messing around!

Laying out the different elements and
designing the typography on paper first.

Building up the colours...

Painting the first undercoat.

INSIDE OUT exhibition - Jamaica Street Artists

Our studio has got a huge spangling wonderful exhibition featuring new
work by all Jamaica Street Artists at the RWA in Bristol - UK!
A show not to be missed as it also features work by the late Matisse!
Woweee!!!
From the the 8th of Jan till the 8th of Feb:
Click on these links for more info:
http://www.jamaicastreetartists.co.uk/
http://www.rwa.org.uk/currexh.htm

Here is a sneak preview from the Story Corner at the Inside Out show
where you can see original artworks and samples of episodes
from Cbeebies' now famous TV series Driver Dan's Story Train - choo choo!

Special thanks to A Productions for making story corner possible!

Wedding card commission

This is a little private commission I did a couple of weeks ago
for a wedding thank you card!


And these are a couple of other options I presented
at rough stage to my client.

Comic Book - ART BASTARD

cover illustration by Tom Plant


THE ART BASTARD!
Ever wondered what it takes to become an artist? Where you
should hang out and what you should say?
Well all is explained in this new comic by expert Tom Plant and myself.
Get your copy now for only £4!!!

NEW BOOK- The Congo Conga

© Story Train Ltd 2009

A brand new book out on the shelves featuring the illustrations
I did with A Productions for the Cbeebies TV series
'Driver Dan's Story Train'
Published by Campbell Books, 2009
ISBN 9780330525091

Shanghai Aquarium Monster!

A picture I did to submit to the great blog
Monsters in Real Places.
This one is dedicated to Jane for her persistent persuasion
to get me to do a doodle for their website!

EXHIBITION @ St Georges, Bristol

I have a group exhibition on at St Georges Music Hall in Bristol
with the other illustrators from Jamaica Street Artists which will run
for a whole year (until august 2011). Every 4 months we will change the
show with each illustrator interpreting the colour of the show.
For our first show we have RED.
Below are my interpretations of the colour RED,
inspired by romance novels of times gone by.
I had fun painting the spine and pages on these using the whole of the
canvas...



'Love at First Sight', acrylic and paper on canvas.



'My Sister's Habit', acrylic and paper on canvas.

Information Illustration....

Long time no blog!
Here is a little information illustration I did a few weeks ago for
the Nails Gallery. It is a poster illustrating 3 easy payment steps:
See something you like, pay in monthly deposits, and pick up art
on last payment!

New Art Ads

Here are some new pics I did for my Open Studio

weekend, some on canvas, some on paper.

I had loads of fun doing these and am planning on

getting a load more done over the summer.

You can see more on my website.

Open studio countdown!

Preparations are underway for

Jamaica Street Open Studios 2010!

My studio is in a mess and I am furiously painting

lots of new work for the occasion -

so come on down on the weekend of the 11th till

the 13th of June to 39 Jamaica Street, Bristol to

see all 40 or so artists and illustrators' work!

RrrRAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaa......

Editions AUZOU - new work

C - comme ça ne casse pas trois pattes à un canard

D - comme Décrocher la lune

J - comme jouer du pipeau

E - comme Être dans ses petits souliers

L- comme poser un Lapin

Here a few from a new set of 26 illustrations for an ABC accordion

fold out book for french publisher Editions AUZOU.

Each illustration represents a different french proverb - it was a very

fun brief to work on and very exciting to have my first bit

of work published in France.

Jamaica Street Artists - Open Studio 2010

In our studio's tradition we will be opening our doors to the public

from friday the 11th of June until Sunday the 13th of June 2010.

So come on down and check out the wonderful art and eat

some tasty homemade cakes!

Check out Jamaica Street Artists for more info.

These pictures were taken from last year's mural on Jamaica Street to

advertise our open studio. (Spot me in my sexy outfit!)

Work in Progress

Hello, been a while since my last blog so

here is a work in progress. I am experimenting

with collage and paint in my spare time.

I will eventually add some typography to the

piece too.

HEDGEHOG GOES ON HOLIDAY

Aliens and a Grizzly Bear!

These sketches where for a musical educational book

commission for Out of The Ark.

Some bear character development sketches I did a while back.