Zoo Doodle

Just a wee doodle in my sketchbook for Illustration Friday. This week's topic is "Zoo". Go look at other folks stuff.

Artwork

I'm working on a more friendly way of navigating the archive. Here is a straight list for now:

ARTWORK	ILLUSTRATION / DESIGN
9 Horrendous Flaming...*	Air3 Radio
49 Cocopops	Alter:Ego
A Terrible Secret...	Be A Familiar*
Birdbox on Tree*	Creative Carnival
Bring Bring	Dirty Pretty Things
Chewing Gum	Fergi
Cockfight	Fortune Teller t-shirt
Coldman	Knitting & Crochet Bee
Dancing Bears	Misfits
The Drunk*
Fortune Teller	EXHIBITION FLYERS
Flipping Shoes*	Sideshow
Gimmie Five
Guitars	COMICS / ZINES
The Handstand	Garfield Spoof
Laurel & Hardy's Death Rattles	Mice Comic
Monkey Series	Running Amok Zine
North, South, East, West*
Paper Plane	BIG STUFF
Rabbits	Walking Hand*
Roy & Rabbit
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Scarf*
Scariest Masks
Shoes
Shuff Shuff
Slappy*
The Best / Worst Band
Tree
Tree Bark*
Weetabix

* New image

Go HERE to view the artwork page on my site.

The Cockfight

The Cockfight

ink & acrylic on card
from "Tenterhooks" at Analogue, 2007
(sold)

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We Can Work It Out at the GRV

I've found out what it was I was asked to do in the last post. I was part of We Can Work It Out in Studio Two at the GRV Project in Edinburgh. It's a collection of work from local(ish in my case) artists curated(ish) by Elph. It should run through November and into December.

The photos above are from the opening party, which was a bit more of an event than I was expecting. The GRV was holding it's big re-opening bash you see, so there were lots of people there for all the different things that were going on such as the helvetica retrospective, DJs, dancing and the posh bar. We were treated very nicely and had a good old time, even though we looked like a bunch of mugs compared to the incredibly beautiful and mysterious staff and media-types that seem to get shipped in for these things.

People in our show are: Elph, Gregor Louden, Acorn, We Are Weapon, Jetpac, Ruefive, Spie One, Carrie Maginn, Amy Whiten, Derm, Sole, Jekil and Klingatron.

I should mention that refurbishment of the venue went up right until the last minute. Klingatron has a wee blog HERE that shows quite well how much building and painting was going on throughout the day. Half of the bar furniture (and probably the bloomin' bar itself) lived in an alleyway until an hour before opening.

Jumping Over Skulls at The Green Room

Quick wee post. I'm about to bomb through to Edinburgh to put a few pieces in a show at The Green Room. I only found out about it last night so I'm hazy on the details. I think it's called We Can Work It Out and is curated by my friend Elph (belated congrats on the wee man by the way). It opens tonight at about 7pm and the Helvetica show is in the same building I think.

What a slick post, really got my finger on the pulse eh? I'll update with more info when I get back. Come along if you can though.

Paper Plane

Paper Plane
ink & acrylic on card
from "Tenterhooks" at Analogue, 2007
(sold)


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November News

TAKE TO THE WOODS AT ANALOGUE
I'm part of a group show at Analogue in Edinburgh called Take To The Woods. It's full of work from folk who have done stuff for Analogue over the years and should be fantastic. The exhibition runs from 16th November - 15th December, with a preview party on Thursday 14th at 7pm. Come along if you can. Everything is under £100 so there'll probably be some Christmas bargains to be had. There'll also be a wee zine to accompany the show.

This is the list of folk showing. Very pleased to be amongst them:
Acorn, Alexa Cameron, Chris Bourke, Claire Scully, David Galletly, Dist, Elph, French, Holly Wales, Iain Bruce, Jo Waterhouse, Jon Burgerman, Magda Boreysza, Marcus Oakley, Marcus Walters, Matt Pattinson, Matt Sewell, Natalie Russell, Neasden Control Centre, Nigel Peake, Robert Hanson, RueFive, Samuel Sparrow, Simon Peplow, Simone Lia, Stuart White, Supermundane, Suzi Q, Tommy Perman & Will Barras.

I'm familiar with the work of most of this lot, and I've no doubt the ones I don't know are also plastic fantastic. Particularly pleased that I'll be able to say I've been in a show with Simone Lia since I've been a massive fan of her work for ages. Have a look at it HERE.
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TENTERHOOKS COMES TO AN END
My solo show, Tenterhooks, at Analogue finishes up on the 10th of November. If you can squeeze in a trip along before then, please do. I'll post properly about it once it's all down and stuff, but right now I can say I'm very pleased with how it went. Here's another wee image from the show:


The Analogue flickr page about my show has also been updated with some other photos.
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ODDS & ENDS
I'll hopefully get round to tidying up this site a little and getting some more recent images up in the artwork section because it's starting to get a little tired looking.

I'm also working on stuff for a few people, as well as some little personal projects, when this stuff passes it's jinx point* I'll get it up here. I've a few ideas for some more in-depth posts. Doodles, sketches and photos will no doubt fly around as well.

*Jinx Point: The moment a proposed project is suitably set in stone that it can be talked about without the risk of looking a fool when it falls through.