I had a busy fume filled weekend and thought I’d share the results. On Saturday I painted at the ‘Whitecross street Party’ for the 2nd year running, deciding to decorate the 8 x 8ft space provided with a homage of sorts to Betty Boop, or at least her skull mounted on an ice cream cone (It makes sense to me!)
I was lucky enough to turn up early and find a great spot next to my good friend ‘DEP’. We’ve painted together a few times now and think our styles compliment each other pretty well…I look forward to more collaborations in the future.
Sunday started early with a hired car down to Ashford,Kent alongside JASIK,GFUNK and PUNISH for fellow crew member ATCH’s ‘CREATE’ graffiti jam. 90minutes of Magic FM later we arrived to find a spot worth every 80’s power ballad.
I decided to drop one of my ‘OTAKU’ pieces, bringing 2 sketches with me with a plan to combine elements of both into the piece.
It’s not often I remember to document the process of painting and although this is far from a detailed analysis, here’s my initial outline on the wall…
Jasik sketch up…
Gfunk sketch up
A cricket.
Colouring in big stylised letters...
Here’s one I made earlier…
Our crew’s finished pieces, from left to right – ATCH – OTAKU – JASIK – GFUNK
Thanks to ATCH for securing a great spot and hosting a great jam (not to mention pulling off his best piece in my opinion). Shouts to all in attendance. Looking forward to the next one…
So this was an exciting project…I was contacted by Chris Dawson at The Field to create the artwork for an interior in Soho to be used for the launch of the new game, ‘Child of Eden’ for the Kinect/Xbox 360. The game is a wireless experience (you use nothing but your body to control the online play), fully immersing the player into a trippy neon wonderland of exploration and discovery and the brief was to create a venue where people would feel like they were walking into a subversive extension of that world. The paintings were all accurately copied from key scenes from the game that I was delivered. Very different to my usual work and a great exercise in technical proficiency.
Here’s a trailer for the game for an idea of the artwork I was referencing…
The customised space in Soho…34-35 Dean Street, London, W1D 4PR. Open to the public from the 5th – 22nd June.
And the artwork…10 days of fumes, blood, sweat and donuts….
A couple of days into the job, we had a visit from the talent at torpedofactoryfilms who put this little promo vid together documenting the tranformation of the space and a timelapse of me painting the wall above.
Hand painted logos using acrylic…no easy feat…
A Mr Jonathon Ross passed by during the private view to test his jedi powers…
I was recently invited, along with a bunch of other artists to paint the exterior of some studios overlooking the Waterloo railway line…a great spot if ever there was one. The image I went with is something I’ve painted before but not up to the standard I wanted. It’s based on a sketch I created at the very start of the year when A LOT of things seemed to be going wrong (cry me a river).
In releasing it in it’s final form in a public space that’s bound to ensure it gets seen by a good few commuters travelling in and out of London, I take a small amount of twisted pleasure in sharing my former angst with you…
The original sketch…
*UPDATE* Here’s a pic my friend J managed to get from the view of a hotel window in Waterloo!
If anyone manages to get a photo from the train, I’d love to see it…
Last week, through ‘Subism’, I was asked to paint the student bar at Kings College alongside artist ‘Deus’ who I’ve painted with a few times now. We went down the path of trying to encompass a sense of royalty into the visuals to tie in with the name of the collage. The heavy paint fumes and constant supply of Redbull put us in a suitably delirious mood for the duration of the day…
I’ve just finished painting some backdrop scenery for my friends over at Butterfly Wheels. who are showing their version of The Nutcracker this christmas over at the Hampstead theatre. I was asked to paint some strange toys.
Could’nt resist dropping a familiar face in there…
