Type/Collage experiment.

An experiment with hand-rendered typography/collaged images.

Sherlock and the Wurstminster Dog Show

This is Sherlock, my entry for the Wurstminster Dog Show which is taking place in Portland early next year. I have to get the artwork over there by December the 1st so I'm getting stuck in now with the intention of having it finished by mid November. I'm intending to do a 4 colour screenprint for the show, taking advantage of my screenprinting night classes!

Superman Collage

Russian Collage

A quick collage using a few different elements: a found drawing of St. Basil's Cathedral in Red Square, Russian postmarks, various papers and my own line drawings. For many years I used different collage elements in my work but that kind of got lost when I began working digitally. It's something I've been trying to bring back into my work recently though I am finding it much harder to bring into my commercial work than it really should be!

Naked Penalties for The Observer.

This is an Illustration I finished off in double-quick time on Friday night for Paul Wilson's Football column which appears in today's Observer. Wilson is discussing the comments made earlier in the week by FIFA President Sepp Blatter. Blatter believes that penalties are no way to decide a world cup final and he has been suggesting a few ideas such as reducing the number of players left on the pitch to make scoring a winning goal easier. Wilson offers an alternative solution : Naked penalty shootouts. The reasoning being that players will do anything to avoid penalties if they have to strip off!

Some Stuff coming up : I've adopted the Bloodhound for my entry to the Wurstminster Dogshow which takes place in Portland, Oregon in Febuary 2007. It seems a fair way off yet but I have to get my dog to Jason by December 1st so I will be starting on that soon. Check out the The Wurst Gallery for more cool projects including the excellent Vintage Vandals.

Also in the pipeline, I shall be doing something for the If you could do anything tomorrow - What would it be? Project which looks like lots of fun