broken magnets

paradise piece

2012-02-16T11:29:00.001Z

Paradise Piece

trudgy pudgy

2012-02-09T12:12:00.001Z

Things-

- Trudgy pudgy

- Last month and a half in Bristol (weird vibe)

- Meet your death before you die actually

- Favourite old things becoming favourite new things

- Stupid things not heavy things

- Interview I did

- Space/space/space

- espresso the new wunder drink

- Beach baby (aka the sand in my shoe)

- the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity

the botanist

2012-01-31T13:42:00.001Z

botanical

2012-01-30T17:59:00.000Z

botanical garden sketches

I went (am) visiting my folk's house and it's pretty near thesebotanical gardens. I tried to go to the one in Bristol the other weekbut it was closed. I love them architecturally, both in structure and as a weird space to be in. Really surreal old fashioned places. I did a lotof paintings there and for a while was sat next to a man in crocodileshoes. It feels really good to be painting again, but they lose some oftheir charm on the computer screen, so here are just a couple.

the fortune teller

2012-01-30T15:52:00.000Z

The Fortune Teller

Look into his little eyes an let your future be revealed to you. Are you a strong mountain tiger? Will you be an oil tycoon? Everyday you are getting better and better in every way.

newness of the new

2012-01-25T15:28:00.001Z

Seaweed

here's a list for today (25.1.12)

- the newness of the new
- old shed smell
- the computer burnout blues
- peek at the void
- horseshoe dust
- the savage prince
- log stackin'
- greenhouse at night
- art rehab

Also this is from a sign, which is famous if you're me or my brother, but not until now have I realised its prophetic meaning. Think on this friends-

'Please do not step on the grass due to the newness of the grass'

tout a la mer

2012-01-22T17:51:00.000Z

Ceramic pot with Money Tree

Hello blog pals, here is a new pot I made last week. It's got a plant in it. For a while now I've had this idea about a print of decorative pots with plants in them, but I haven't been able to pin it down.

Somewhere along the lines I had the thought that maybe it wasn't a print, but a practical pot- a plant pot I had to make. Then I got really excited about the idea of something I had come to because of aesthetic reasons turning into something practical. It seemed like a good progress. So this is a pot with a plant in it.

milk city

2012-01-14T17:34:00.000Z

Men at Bristol Temple Meads

Took the train to Plymouth for a couple days. I used to live there for uni and I have a lot of happy memories. Hung out with some old buds and saw some of the old things I used to like looking at. There's a lot of fishermen and manly goings on in Plymouth, surrounded by woods and water and Dartmoor, kind of like Twin Peaks-on-sea. Also it's home to my favourite shop, Goulds, an army surplus shop, which is where I'd buy all my clothes if I could.

Plymouth museum is amazing. I love how things are displayed there. The city has a pretty rich history of explorers and adventure, and a lot of old guys who collected (and still do) lots of interesting things. It's not just the museum, there are a lot of junk shops and memorabelia shops. Everything from past eras piled on top of each other and arranged in weird narratives. I love how there are these patchworks of textures and type, colours and forms, symbols, objects, costumes- just weird juxtapositions. So much military/magic/pop culture/curioso stuff. I love it.

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Also got to see the window mural I did in real life. I love it. Not blowing my own primitive trumpet, I just mean the context of it, and the scale- regardless of what I drew. Definitly going to be thinking hard about all the questions it's thrown up. I'm super into the public aspect of it, how different it is to a print or a painting. There's a crassness in how loud it is to have a picture that big in a public space, somewhere where people who would never give my art a second look are confronted very physically with a thing. Obviously a lot of this stuff is old hat and graffiti has answered a lot of these questions already, but it's different when it's your art. Mind blower.

The waterfront has all these weird concrete steps embedded in the rock. You have to climb over railings and it's pretty higgledy piggledy, but it's where you go in the summer and sit with a beer and your bros.

And when you do you sit and look at this- Woah.

Rode the train home, thought about moving back, got excited about the Hockney show in London next month.
p.s. is this a real blog post? Am I a blogger now?

poison cup

2012-01-12T00:58:00.000Z

Hello pals and palettes, this is just note to say I've restocked my shop (http://www.etsy.com/shop/robhodgson) with prints that are all standard sizes- for ease and peas of framing.

Waiting for the sun

2012-01-09T13:36:00.001Z

I made a mask of the Beast from this drawing. Following my nose, interesting to do things a bit different when they come to you.

Truffle pig

2012-01-05T14:54:00.000Z

Hello friends, just letting you know about the truffle pig. You must be the truffle pig at all times (24hrs a day [yes, even snooze time]). Inspiration strikes in the strangest places. I love art and I love pictures. I also love music and films and books. But content and form are all around, and the whole world is insane and amazing. When you're the truffle pig inspiration is everywhere, especially when you leave your routines.

*I did not take this photograph of the truffle pig

2012

2012-01-02T13:05:00.000Z

Happy new year friends!

I like this little bit after new year when you start planning the next thing. Here's a list of things

Paint more and bigger

Blog more art theories

Travel Francais this summer

Be the truffle pig full time

Do the Rob Hodgson family pilgrimage (Scotland, Belgium)

Learn new man crafts

Collaboration station

the major

2011-12-10T12:17:00.001Z

Push the button! Start the countdown! Pull the trigger! Dropthe bomb!

oh comely

2011-12-01T17:28:00.001Z

My piece I wrote for Oh Comely is out now. It runs over 4 pages and it printed real nice. There's also a tiny interview with me, where I sound weird. I uploaded different photos on my website if you want to have a look, but I'd buy a copy if I were you because it's a great magazine.

Here are some photos of it and some illo's I hadn't shown before.

blacksmith

2011-11-25T11:08:00.001Z

Here is a cushion I screened the other day. I'm having a go at repeat pattern- this is the same Common Symbols screen I made a couple months back. Always interested in artefacts and objects.

Also got some new prints in the shop if you want to check them out.

And here is a quote I love I found in a French folk art book I got out of the library here in Bristol.

'What are the limits of folk art? How far does the fieldextend? How diverse are the works and what do they have in common? By generalagreement among experts, furniture, costumes, and pictures are certainly to beincluded. But why not include musical instruments, church furnishings, and shopdisplays, not to mention musical compositions themselves, religious ceremonies,or other professional paraphernalia? May not a ballad or a round, a CorpusChristi procession or a funeral, a blacksmith’s shop or a tile factory also befolk art works?'

the Catcher in the Rye

2011-11-19T11:26:00.001Z

the Catcher in the Rye, poster

Holden would think this is a terribly crummy thing to do and that making posters of someone else's work is really phoney, and that things should be allowed to stay in glass cases like the Eskimos in the museum. But it's one of my favourites and I thought I'd have a go. Sorry old Holden.

Winner

2011-11-14T23:26:00.001Z

Hello friends, thanks to those who entered my little competition! I chose someone at random and Laura Kientzler has won! I used this website (http://www.random.org/), which I'm going to use for all my daily decision making from now on.

Thanks for entering everyone, and now I feel a little bummed that there are people who haven't got a thing, so here is this for you.

Bonus drawing-

Mountain Troll Man

2011-11-10T17:07:00.000Z

Mountain Troll Man

Made lots of monoprint studies the other day. I love the smell of printing ink. Whenever I monoprint I seem to concentrate on using it as a way to make an interesting line drawing, so here I was trying to make some shapes instead. A good technique was using a wet brush on the plate and making a kind of relief. This guy is pretty fierce.

Also thanks everyone for entering my competition so far! P.s here is this

giveaway

2011-11-08T11:00:00.001Z

I am giving away all these things for free!

There is an artist's proof of the Earthenware screenprint, the last ever copy of Never Too Far From the Sun (a collection of short comics I made a little while ago), a small book of nature drawings, a screenprinted Common Symbols tote bag and a few postcards.

All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and I will choose someone at random next Monday (18th November). Please feel free to blog, tweet, facebook this as you please so I don't look so silly when only 3 people enter.

Ps Thanks everyone ever for leaving nice comments, e-mailing me, commissioning me, sharing my pictures, buying prints, swapping art with me, teaching me, and following my work!

wrestling the beast

2011-11-02T13:06:00.000Z

Wrestling the Beast

Halloween

2011-10-30T14:31:00.000Z

Happy Halloween everyone!

Window

2011-10-27T13:40:00.001+01:00

This is the site in Plymouth where my Three Sisters image has been blown up to fill the window space of a closed down shop. So excited to see it up! I lived in Plymouth for a few years and knowing this is there means a lot to me! The space is used by buskers, hence the musical theme, and the brief asked for something to brighten up the area. Hopefully I'll get to check it out soon.

Some things about it that interest me
- Different light and weather conditions. I'd love to see it at night
- What are people going to add to it? Big willies drawn all over it?
- The man looking in the photo below
- The scale of the figures and the people in the photographs intereacting
- People doing things in front of it- patchwork of narratives
- It's not my image any more
- Architecture in general- woah
- What does it mean?! Seriously what are these people thinking?
- Mind blown

The image next to mine is from the mighty Jack Teagle, who also took these photos. Other talented people involved were Ben Aslett, Sam Rennocks, Joe Lyward, Josh Neal and Jake Rowlinson.The project was from Peninsula Arts and art directed by the psych-folk loving Tom Barwick.

If you're in Plymouth go and check it out!

Rou

2011-10-24T14:23:00.001+01:00

Castle, sketchbook

Hello friends, just a drawing to let you know things are going on behind the blog. I'm trying to devote some time to a longer narrative piece. It's a real challenge to me to find a way to keep chipping at the same thing thematically, but I'm giving it a go.

And here's an invite I have in a book from Henri Rousseau to his night of artistic soiree. Photo by Picasso. Can you imagine what 'performing his works and creations' means? Lets go back in time everyone.

Summer, summer, summer's Gonna turn into fall

2011-10-15T20:37:00.000+01:00

Bather

Museum piece

2011-10-04T10:28:00.001+01:00

1. Palmistry Chart, printed card from fairground
2. Woods and Cosmos Badge, Clare Owen
3. Face Badge, Jack Teagle
4. Zine (dashboard moon), 2007
5. Assorted Tea Cards, Brooke Bond Tea
6. Heavy Boots Card, printed card
7. Deer, plastic toy
8. Palm Tree, acrylic on wood
9. Old Shed in Woods Postcard
10. Mr & Mrs Hodgson, photograph of great grandfather, print engineer
11. Nachtzug, art print
12. Earthenware Screenprint, print on paper bag
13. Pinecone
14. Stamp
15. Ceramic Pot
16. Zine (nature), 2011
17. Milk, framed monoprint
18. Panther, plastic toy
19. Post, packet from Becca Stadtlander
20. Ganess Print, print of photo of matchbox on newsprint
21. Rousseau Postcard
22. Graveyard, art print
23. Zine (untitled), unpublished 2010
24. Leaf
25, 26. Sketchbooks

After seeing this great show at the Arnolfini (where artists have made museum exhibitions in the gallery), I thought I’d have a go at appropriating some things I have kicking around. This is a collection of odds of things I have. It’s not really comprehensive, but I wanted to put it together quickly.It’s just a funny thing for the internet, and I hope everyone gets it and doesn’t think I need a museum for myself. It’s also kind of a joke because I’m so pedantic about keeping and ordering things.

-Also put this on my website which is a little easier to read

Gold Rush

2011-09-29T13:43:00.002+01:00

Here are some sketchbook oddities and a photo of an amazing building here in Bristol. It is HOT here today and I'm working on some new things.

A few things
- Updated etsy shoppe with prints. T-shirts and posters hopefully to follow soon
- Got a Tumblr account, so go forth and tumble
- Milk maketh the man
- Saw the Wickerman at a cinema in the woods the other day (woah)
- Go check out Bjorn's great show at Snap if you're here in Bristol
- Troll Hunter recommended
- I think flags might be the new art thing
- Europe

That's all for now friends.

Lady Looking

2011-09-21T16:29:00.001+01:00

Lady Looking

Screened this yesterday, sans computers. It's the simplest of the 4 panel comics I've done. I like the comic format because it communicates something really quickly that you'd need a lot of words to say otherwise. I also like it off the page/wall and in real environments because of how you read images on the move, so I thought it'd work on shirts. Let me know if you'd like one!

Either/Or

2011-09-15T13:59:00.000+01:00

The Heights

Hello friends. Here is an image from something I've recently finished. It's from a story that's going to be in a great magazine called Oh Comely, but it's not coming out till the end of October. It's something I wrote that runs over 4 (!) pages. I'll write more about it when it comes out, but for now here is a sneak peak.

This image is a place from where I grew up and a nod to Hockney and what he taught me about how you look at landscape, especially in terms of memory. He's still pushing the idea with these new videos in Yorkshire.

I'll be sure to post pictures of it, but buy the mag when it's out- won't it be rad to own a real life thing? Off to start something new now. Hope everyone is well!

Garden Botanum

2011-09-14T12:34:00.001+01:00

A couple photos from my desk here in Bristol. Sometimes I work at the desk, sometimes I don't.

Titan

2011-09-09T11:58:00.000+01:00

Last night I watched a documentary about some guys who dedicated 3 years to building this little box to measure the surface of Saturn's moon, Titan. Then they sat tight for 7 years until this little box was a billion miles away and a little parachute opened up and it floated down onto the moon, a billion miles away. Imagine thinking about space (in a spatial way) like that for 7 years. How big and small must you feel. Real mind blower. Made me think of this comic I made a while ago.

sad sack

2011-09-05T12:05:00.000+01:00

Horses

Big man
some images from my sketchbook

I like it here, can I stay

2011-08-29T22:59:00.012+01:00

Hello all. Back in Bristol now after a trip to London. The AOI exhibition was fun, and I won the gold award for New Talent! Great to see some old and new friends there, and I met lots of nice people.

The exhibition is well worth going to if you're in London- really diverse work and a lot of ideas about image making. It's right next to Tate modern, which was really lacking images, knowing their incredible collection of paintings. Plenty of interesting ideas, but apart from Picasso's Dancers and Matisse's Snail, there were barely any engaging pictures. Is this why there are so many illustration students? I know I was certainly turned off from 'fine art' at college because of the lack of interest in image making.

I digress. London feels more liveable each time I'm there, but the cost makes me think twice.

They Shot Him Down

This is the image that is in the exhibition. Because of the whole process, it is about 2 years old, but that gives me some perspective on it.

The image came from an idea that I've been thinking about again lately. It's this idea about fiction and reality and how they can live in the same world. A kind of post post-modern idea.

Anyway, all this got me thinking about my role as an illustrator. Someone who creates images to give a visual to an idea. The image can be based on reality or myth. Fact or fiction can exist on the same page. In an image they are one and the same. It's all about giving life to an idea, to communicate something. Ultimately it’s about new ways of seeing.

Blow up

2011-08-23T00:11:00.014+01:00

Hello internet friends. This image is being blown up huge, 2/3metres or so, and stuck on a big window of a closed down shop in Plymouth. It was a really great commission from Plymouth City Council, art directed by Tom Barwick.

I want to show people the image, but I'm not sure when it's going up in situ, so I'm posting it now. The excitement about showing people is more to do with the blown up version in the street. I'm into the image, but here on the web it's another image in a succession of images. In the street it's going to be really new for a lot of people. I used to live in Plymouth and know the area well.

I know any interest in my work online is almost exclusively from other image makers, which is a really beautiful thing, but the work must exist in real life for people. So I've been fully into the project and it's got me thinking about exhibiting more, and in interesting ways.

Listened to all sorts whilst making this- new Beirut, Doors 'Waiting For The Sun', John Fahey 'Of Rivers and Religion', Tallest Man on Earth 'Sometimes the Blues is Just a Passing Bird'. Haven't read a book in weeks. Looked at a lot of Persian art during this too.

Leaf

2011-08-22T13:01:00.001+01:00

Going to London on Thursday for a couple days for the AOI Images awards exhibition, which is going to be fun. Some new and old friends are in the show too, so it'll be a nice evening. If anyone wants to meet to leaf through my folio, let me know!

Parchman Farm

2011-08-22T11:26:00.003+01:00

The Wild Hunt

Hi friends. This is kind of a stepping stone image. I made it to have a visual to bounce of for something else. Yes the figures are a heavy Rousseau 'Football Players' nod. I saw a Picasso image the other day, 'The Bathers' which I guess is his nod to that painting too. It's been sitting on my mac for a little while and I thought I'd post it up here.

A guitar, a pot and a leaf

2011-08-15T13:36:00.001+01:00

Some roughs from a fun commission I'm working on. Something bigger than normal, which is very cool.

Super

2011-08-15T12:43:00.007+01:00

Weston Super

Played on these beautiful old penny machines at the weekend. They were amazingly illustrated, and I don't think simply because they were old or weathered. Beautiful design, type, colour, a sign of the hand, character design, handling of shape and line. All great, But (!) they made me think about something I was interested in at uni. The link between illustration and narrative, but the narrative being an experience, a story you are involved in physically. There were games that were illustrated, an x-ray machine that gave you an illustrated card, a grabbing game that gave you a plastic toy, and illustrated rides and carousels. Somewhere else I saw one of those wooden shapes you put your head in and take a photo. Important to note the experience connected to the illustrations, much like acting out your own illustrated story.

Bello bello

2011-08-15T11:46:00.000+01:00

Fireworks at the balloon festival here in Bristol

Nah

2011-08-15T11:13:00.001+01:00

Self portrait as a man saying no a lot

Pastoral Constructs

2011-08-11T12:13:00.001+01:00

Pastoral Constructs

Riots

2011-08-11T09:46:00.002+01:00

Been on a little holiday to my folk's house in Torquay. Hope all my friends in London are safe.

Slides and Pool

2011-08-06T22:08:00.001+01:00

Lagoons

2011-08-05T21:13:00.001+01:00

landscapes from the zoo

The Philosopher

2011-08-04T20:25:00.005+01:00

The Philosopher

I'm new to gifs. I wanted to make a comic that moved for the internet. It doesn't exist in the physical world, but at the same time it does- but only on a screen on people's computers, in their bedrooms, at their kitchen tables, or on phones on the way to work. That's exciting to me. Portable gallery! Do internet artists have online exhibitions? I'd like to get back into film making again. It's something I have a lot of enthusiasm for and not much skill in- which is a huge exciting thing!

Boxer

2011-08-04T20:15:00.003+01:00

I drew this line drawing on a big chalkboard we have in the kitchen of my house. I coloured it in on the computer from a photograph.

Future things

2011-08-04T18:59:00.004+01:00

Hello blog friends. Today it is Thursday in Bristol.

Just a note to say I made myself a website, or more accurately a webportfolio. It is at www.robhodgson.com, which means the blog is free of the .com shackles!

Websites are a funny thing. All I wanted from the internet was a place to show people my work. Now I have the new site I thought about sacking off the blog (sorry blog). But now I see it's its own thing. It's a weird new space for showing people things. Unlike a gallery space or a book, with the blog you have the added dimension of time. It's a conversation. You probably already know this.

So I'm drawing a line the blog sand and here I am toasting the blog with this drink to the future of the blog. Blog.

I hope you are well wherever you are!

The Prophet

2011-07-14T11:46:00.002+01:00

The Prophet

John Henry

2011-07-13T19:19:00.005+01:00

John Henry, or John Henry's House

There are some great songs about John Henry. He was an American folk hero, a simple hard worker. He worked as a steel-driver, hammering the railroads. When his job was under threat by a new steam-powered hammer, he tries to beat it, winning only to die from exhaustion afterwards.

I didn't mean to carry on the house in woods as a series, but it looks like I have.

I have a print of this for sale over on my Etsy, along with a couple other new images.

Pity Dance

2011-07-13T19:04:00.007+01:00

Spherical Pot With Base, 182mm x 128mm, Wax Crayon and Gouache on card.

It has been a long time since I've made original works (and not prints) that I've felt really happy with. I've done a few of these, inspired by ceramics I've been making recently.

Anorak

2011-07-08T18:21:00.003+01:00

Illustrated a story for the new Anorak

V fun! Amazing to work for the incredible Rob Lowe.

Pilgrim

2011-06-29T18:08:00.005+01:00

Masks

Found a list on my computer today. Goes like this-

-Fleshy temple
-Ferocious dream
-Espadrilles
-Hot rocks
-Granite worktop cave

Tongue Tied and Useless

2011-06-21T16:27:00.004+01:00

Here are three images that have no home. Thematically, stylistically and narratively they are very close; but in my head (!) they have no conclusion.

They were created at very different times and for different reasons. The actual images themselves are orphaned off from the ideas that created them. It's funny in that sense, that these images are just clues to what the original ideas were, but now they create new ideas together.

S'all. Went to see Tune Yards last night with Clare and they were completely amazing. Been listening to the new Wild Beasts album a lot too- also amazing.

nightswimming

2011-06-08T15:24:00.002+01:00

nightswimming

Ouroboros

2011-06-01T16:31:00.002+01:00

ouroboros

List of words 1.6.11

-Spinster
-Oracle
-Edible
-Hollow
-Lagoon
-Fanfare

There is a wood in Bristol that is also a graveyard

Wednesday

2011-05-25T16:08:00.002+01:00

American Poetry Man's Head

The shop I was so proud of last week has been replaced by an Etsy store- basically better all round. Please find it Here.

Milk River

2011-05-24T12:19:00.007+01:00

Hello blog friends. Southbank arts fair was a lot of fun. Met lots of great people.

I made this mixtape over the weekend. Music is a massive inspiration for me. I usually have songs in mind when I'm making a picture. This sounds like what a lot of my own work is about. I kind of imagine it as something pastoral and English, but then there is something dark and foreign creeping in, like a musical Heart of Darkness.

Download Here

Track list
Sligo River Blues- John Fahey
Above The Flood- Library Tapes
Voice From The Mountain- Nick Drake
Night Way- Robbie Basho
Ain't Got No Honey Baby Now- Elizabeth Cotton
Bye- Elliott Smith
Moonlight On Verlaine- Atlas Sound
Engine- Neutral Milk Hotel
Stephanie- Buckingham/ Nicks
The Cascades- Fleet Foxes
Lullaby/ Festival/ Mirie It Is/ Sumer Is A-Cumen In- Wicker Man Soundtrack
The Shrew- Beirut
Lazslo Lassu- A Hawk And A Hacksaw
Last Hurrah- Holy Sons

Southbank

2011-05-20T21:51:00.004+01:00

Last night I did some screen prints of Earthenware with the aid of Clare at Snap. Coming soon to the online shoppe with some other prints. For people in Bristol you should definitely come by Drawn at the Southbank (near my house) for Bristol's biggest illustration shop. More info here!

Nachtzug

2011-05-13T17:59:00.003+01:00

Nachtzug

Thanks to Philip at TheFoxIsBlack for saying nice things about my work!

shop now open

2011-05-05T13:00:00.008+01:00

Shop (!) now open for business! All the prints are crazy good quality and come mailed flat in cellophane and are card backed. There are Common Symbols tote bags (above). More printed things to come. If there is a print of something I have done not on there that you would like, please e-mail (rob@robhodgson.com).
All orders come with a free small book of drawings.
Thanks, Rob

Three Bad Foxes

2011-05-04T11:44:00.004+01:00

Three Bad Foxes

I'm writing a story and these foxes are in it. When I'm creating something more involved with a narrative I like to start by collecting pieces of the puzzle. Sometimes they're bits of drawings and text, but sometimes they're photos and songs and objects. The more you have the easier it is to find the pieces that fit and that don't. It wouldn't make loads of sense if I shared all the pieces I have now, but here is a drawing that I think can stand alone.

Also if you're in Bristol you should stop by Here gallery up in Stokes Croft and buy some of my prints. Online shop to follow on my site once I figure out a few techy things.

P.s. hello new friends from Pikaland!

P.p.s here is my buddy, Bagera

Earthenware

2011-04-29T16:14:00.003+01:00

Earthenware

One day these will be real- I really want to learn ceramics

Nature

2011-04-18T11:39:00.004+01:00

Images from a new small book. All the images are of people and plants and peopleplants. I have an allotment with this new house I'm living in, and I love it, but I've never been so close to growing plants before. It really blew my mind in a Day of the Triffids way to see how quick something grows out of nothing. I had a nightmare about a plant person and did all these drawings a couple days later.

Going to have some books and prints at Arnofini Bookfair at the end of the month in Bristol, which everyone should most definitely come to.

common symbols

2011-04-12T11:26:00.000+01:00

Common Symbols

These are some recurring symbols from my work. Everyone should get super interested in symbols and semiotics and language. Today I am screenprinting this, if the sun stays out.

Primitive

2011-04-11T17:11:00.006+01:00

Hi blog friends. Here is an old drawing I coloured recently of some primitive men, and a quick drawing I did today of Pablo P. Sometimes when I get bummed out about my work I look at photos of Picasso having fun.

I've been thinking a lot about primitive men lately, more so than normal. Firstly because of an episode of Human Planet where they showed a shot of this tribe no one has ever had contact with- mind blown. Also seeing Herzogs Cave of Forgotten Dreams the other week. And reading Brave New World. Picasso was interested in Primitive people obviously too.

Le Consierge

2011-03-24T13:58:00.004Z

Been wanting to do some larger, more involved images lately. This is based loosely on old Meursault's apartment from the Outsider, Beruit and Django Reinhardt.

Pine

2011-03-20T16:30:00.005Z

People I saw while having a coffee in the 24 hour supermarket near my house (don't judge)

on doing an evil deed blues

2011-03-18T10:49:00.005Z

Here are my paintings from the show at UO Bristol a couple weeks ago. They were mounted on these walls that look like Twin Peaks walls, which was great. Super good people involved. Also a squash with a face.
And I got a Twitter

pretty girls make

2011-03-17T10:38:00.003Z

bone and twine

2011-03-11T12:25:00.006Z

Here are a couple drawings from my sketchbook. Happy weekend!

coffee and flowers

2011-02-27T18:30:00.004Z

here are some animals by a river. It feels a bit like some places I saw traveling around the Pacific N/W a couple years ago. Without the animal people though. I still don't know what I think about anthropomorphism, but it comes really naturally when I draw characters. I remember reading old Charley Harper hated it.

and here is something else

how i left the ministry

2011-02-24T10:23:00.006Z

old shed in woods

It's been a while since I've made a denser image. I sometimes go down a little tunnel and come out with something really deconstructed or so abstracted it becomes symbolic. I'm going to start on a kids book soon so I wanted to practice making something fuller.

nude as the news

2011-02-23T11:41:00.003Z

simple red nude on green

Typically I like quite unrestrained linework, and I usually end up using the first version of the lines I do. Colour and shape and composition are more considered, but I like line to have some spontaneity. I'm quite sparing with line normally, but since I did some ligne claire drawings I've been thinking about it. This drawing is very considered. A lot of rubbing out and reworking.

new chevrolet in flames

2011-02-21T13:17:00.006Z

This is a drawing for an idea that I can't seem to get close enough to, but I still like it so I'm casting it off here, maybe it means something to someone reading?

Also everyone should come to this show in Bristol next week. I have a couple pictures in it put on by the very rad Adam Ruff.

Bird and Cage

2011-02-16T19:00:00.004Z

Bird and Cage, pencil and computer

I made this picture today at Clare's house in Bristol.

big burned hand

2011-02-06T12:53:00.001Z

crill

2011-02-05T18:43:00.003Z

rad ish

2011-01-27T20:11:00.003Z

hello friends, here is a poster to remind you to grow your own veg this year

plus bonus this

st. apollonia

2011-01-25T10:35:00.005Z

All Arise!

2011-01-20T17:39:00.008Z

The screenprint setup worked a treat! Few tips for d.i.ying it I learnt, for my blog bros-

-making your own frame is a ton cheaper- you can buy offcuts of voile in fabric shops for pence and frames from charity shops. All under a pound for a screen

-just coat one side of the screen, it's enough for the other side too- it goes a long way

-print the acetate on a photocopier, the ink from a home printer never dries

-screening in the sun casts weird shadows everywhere, I exposed with a regular strip light inside, about 10" away for 40 mins

s'all. I printed on a tote, a shirt, some sketchbooks and tried to be truly rad and screen my skateboard, but it was too much, I got carried away. More to come!

the skull in the stump

2011-01-19T19:15:00.001Z

list of good words 19.01.11

-milk
-iron
-tinder
-drab
-rusk
-avery

flowerbeds

2011-01-14T14:39:00.005Z

Panther, 11.7" X 13.3", Acrylic on Wood Panel

sour milk sea

2011-01-13T12:28:00.005Z

Tree Stump. 9.1" X 11.6, Acylic on Wood Panel

Thanks to Danica for saying nice things about my drawings. Thanks Danica!

vashti bunyan

2011-01-06T16:10:00.002Z

No big whoop, just a screenprint setup, and the first thing to tick off my new years list. I built the screen myself from an old picture frame and voile. If anyone has any advice for exposing at home, I'd love to hear it!

cusack

2011-01-03T15:30:00.003Z

top five albums of '10

1. beach house - teen dream
2. sufjan stevens - age of adz
3. deerhunter - halcyon digest
4. vampire weekend -contra
5. arcade fire - suburbs

notable mentions

midlake - courage of others
atlas sound - bedroom databanks
national - high violet
joanna newsom - have one on me
bill callahan - rough travel for a rare thing
the books - the way out

ligne claire

2010-12-29T13:01:00.003Z

I've never really got clear line before, it always seemed to me too much like colouring in. I've always tried to make some kind of unity of line and colour and shape in my pictures, but I'm starting to get it a lot more. If anything I think you have to be more careful with line when it defines shape and texture. This is a clear line moose wearing a button up shirt.

happy holidays

2010-12-26T14:21:00.003Z

happy holidays y'all!

new year list

- move to new city
- get screenprint setup setup
- write kids book
- skateboarding saves me twice
- don't be a stranger
- collaborations
- start a band
- read more books
- bigger and faster and better and radder

it's a long life! better pinch yourself!

2010-12-23T15:09:00.005Z

A few weeks ago I took a year two class for an afternoon and made some rad things. Potato prints and a ton of glitter. Here are some of the amazing Russian dolls we made.

tindersticks

2010-12-11T15:37:00.004Z

heavy boots

2010-12-01T21:47:00.005Z

heavy boots in old surroundings

it's cold out

2010-12-01T21:44:00.003Z

brain fog

2010-11-30T21:08:00.005Z

Back from adventure to Amsterdam. I think going away always gives you a clearer perspective on things. Sometimes I get brain fog and you need to go away to see past it.

who wrote the song

2010-11-30T12:33:00.004Z

Sketchbooks are great. I'm really into the first drawings you do of something usually. I took photos of these drawings from Clare's sketchbook and coloured them in.

seaweed water

2010-11-23T12:48:00.002Z

Some more sketchbook drawings

le train

2010-11-22T19:09:00.005Z

Hello blog friends. Here is a drawing of a couple people on a train from my sketchbook.

chat

2010-11-03T12:20:00.003Z

la belle

2010-10-28T16:15:00.004+01:00

nightmare at

2010-10-14T19:36:00.006+01:00

My pal Sam did a Rod Serling drawing the other day and made me think of when we all went through a pretty big Twilight Zone phase at our house last year. The original show has such good writing and it's a great format. Here are a couple drawings of the creature from Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.

and now for our more dreadful sacrifice

2010-10-14T13:45:00.006+01:00

I love the original Wicker Man. It has everything. The story is amazing and frustrating and dark. There are amazing animal costumes. There are gruesome Lynchian characters. It's the only film soundtrack I listen to; it sounds like Beirut if they were Scottish heathens. I drew this mono print while I was thinking about it all, but I ended up drawing the most obvious thing, I guess it's all there already in the film.

edit- I lied, I like the Twin Peaks soundtrack too.

dream

2010-09-16T19:33:00.002+01:00

francoise hardy

it's hell to dwell

2010-09-06T11:53:00.001+01:00