Having fun with illustrator

Decided I felt like a new header for my blog.

T.UNIT

Well I am very excited in the fact that today is the day that I am opening my christmas present. Me mam knows I love tea so she got me a big ass bag, and I;m only opening it now cause i had a 500 tea bags to finish first. So today is the day that I begin to get through the badboy bag but I know I can handle it, being a member of T.UNIT.

Finally got a photo

I finally got a photo of this painting that I did over a year ago.

Weekend of cutting pt2

I am so happy that I finished cutting this pattern I designed, 27 hours of continuous cutting was all worth the effort. I didn't mess up (which people would keep asking how I would take it if I did) and now I was able to use this pattern for my new paintings. and the funny thing is if I had to I would do it all again, but I don't so I'm happy for now.

Well what a productive weekend I had. Because I spent all last weekend preparing for this one I was able to get on with painting. First of all I got on with a painting of my friend Hobbs, this painting is intended for The Red Door Gallery. The brief is that each image be 30cm x 30cm so I thats what i did but made 3 images equal 1, I'm pretty fond of it, these new painting allowed me to play with some new ideas which is always good.




So after completing the first painting of the weekend. So after completing the first painting of the day I had to head in to Glasgow to Bar Soba who are comissioning me to do several paintings for the dining area, so I had to go tehre to measure out the sizes of the walls so I know how Big or small to make the paintings. It was really good cause I had ideas but now after really looking around the creative juices got flowing. But I wandered around Glasgow for a wee bit n outside Boarders Books there are always people performing stuff.

I'm so glad i had my camera cause I was able to snap Dublin Juggler Russ breathing a massive ball of fire for his final trick. So happy I got this photo. But anyway the meter was running so I headed back to my car after shaking Russ' hand and got back on with painting. Now I have never painted on records before but have seen it many times n finally gave it a go, especially cause I found a box of old records in my attic.






I really enjoyed it and will be doing more record paintings for sure. So I incorporated the pattern into the background after a coulpe of practice goes to get the colours right n then got on with the paintings. You may be able to see that the paintings look pixelated which is intensional cause when viewed from a distance they are not. I'm happy with how they turned out n have taken then to Edinburgh so now I hope they will be up on display real soon. What a day, haven't a clue what I'll be doing next weekend but.

Go Magazine

The other day I was informed that I had a mention in Glasgow based GO Magazine' In fact I had been interviewed by the student who word the artical, but i thought it was for a uni project the guy was doing, but its all good. Its a small free magazine that is distributed around Glasgow, and free stuff is always good. I hope the image is big enought for you guys to read.

Weekend of cutting

What a weekend i had. Firstly i Fancied customising my studio walls by doing a painting on it. I played around withe the perspective of the font which looks pretty trippy from the side view, but it's better than the bits of tape I had all over the wall.

So after i painted the wall I continued with my cutting. I spent the majority of saturday working in my studio and most of sunday aswell untill it was time for my sunday roast. I'm still cutting my pattern out and after 12 hours of cutting I'm not even half way through, I'm looking forward to getting that done, should be good. This is me just getting my paintings ready for the The Red Door Gallery as the dead line is soon so I'd best get back to it. Peace

Glasgow Art Fair

Well I got invited to go tho the Opening of the Glasgow art fair, thanks to Azz for the ticket.

Azz had his art work up on display which looked fantastic and got good feed back and sold a couple of piece on the opening night.

Also saw some fresh work by an artist called Max Taylor and it was this piece called Mr Cassidy that i was really fond of, really nice image a monkey mixed with graf and crains, i really liked this piece

The show finished at 9pm so we then decided that our stomachs were pretty empty so we headed to a noodle bar for some grub after trying other places first. I had some good noodles with a chilly n beef flavour, oh yeah. To the joy of the staff we eventually headed to a oub under the local Burger King (thats Glasgow for you) for a pint and to meet up with Frazer. After a banter Jen n I thought we'd best head back up to Dundee so we did.

So there was plenty happening, My girlfriend Jen had a great time and it was good to see ma dawgs Sam n Chris again. Well done Azz with the show.

Red Door Gallery

Orite folks, well for the past week i have been planning out some new paintings for a show at The Red Door Gallery in Edinburgh. This was the first gallery that i displayed my work in and am very excited to be having some new pieces on display (if they like what i have done) I still got plenty more to get on with but stay tuned