I’ve got a mini farmer squid tending to my veggie patch out on the balcony, and he was pretty excited to show me the first little strawberries of the year are starting to grow. Its the first time I’ve tried growing strawberries, so I’m pretty happy to see those little fellas sprouting already. Has anyone else grown these before? Got any tips?
Heres an illustration I did for Slam Magazine (issue 170) last month. It was about a guy (Dom Kekich) who had a bobcat push him down the Nirto Circus mega ramp in one of those giant Zorb balls. Only problem was the bobcat punctured the ball and snapped his leg! Poor dude, sounds super painful, hope hes made a full recovery.
After having spent the last few months behind my computer screen animating, I jumped at the chance to do some actual painting today at a local bar (the Alibi Room, New Farm). Now I know I’ve got a long way to go with using aerosols, but I figured this space was a pretty good one to try my hand at them again. The colours that flow out of a can (I was using Ironlak and Kingz Cans paint today) seem to be some much more intense and vibrant than anything that comes from a tube. The down side was that my wrist really didn’t enjoy it. I’ve been battling tendonitis in my right wrist since Christmas (probably a lot longer really) and today really gave it a beating. I was pretty happy with how it all turned out and I look forward to playing around with cans some more, just as soon as my wrist permits it.
Heres a little animation I was playing around with today in Flash.
I’ve just finished off a couple of character illustrations for an upcoming release of “Nasty” by Sangers and Ra, featuring SirReal from the Freestylers. You can check out the guys here – facebook and here – myspace. I’ve been doing a lot of 2D and 3D animation lately so it was a nice change to focus on a single image for once. I’m looking forward to a couple more upcoming illustration jobs, but for now its back to animating!
I’m just beginning a new stage in my website’s life, namely moving everything across to my blog. As I’m an artist, not a programmer, please forgive any issues that might occur during this phase. I’m hoping everything will be bigger and better than before within the next week or two, and will start to embark on a few new projects I hope you’ll all be interested in.
Thanks for your patience!
Shaun.
I was lucky enough to be contacted by Juggler’s Artspace a couple of weeks ago about taking part in a mural, out the front of the construction site for what will soon become the new Supreme Court building. There was about ten of us there and it was great to see such a variety of styles and meet some new people, so a big thanks to Peter and they guys at Juggler’s for organising it all. Heres a few shots I took after I’d finished my piece.
This was my piece, simple greyscale image of an overly happy judge! All done with acrylics and brushes.
Sam Eyles
Shevaun Wright
Amanda Ceccato (far left, sorry for the bad pic) and Andy Harwood (right)
In a bid to fill out my folio with some more variety, I opted to do this piece based on Thom Yorke’s album, The Eraser. Just like all his work with Radiohead, I can listen to this album over and over. While this piece is a fair bit different to my usual style, it was really enjoyable, and I’ll probably use a similar technique again soon.
I finally got around to checking out Push on DVD over the weekend (twice in fact) and loved it. Its got a great feel to it, crazy super powers, over the top (in a good way) effects and a pretty cool story. I’m really hoping theres a few more to come. After watching the movie I was pretty pumped to do a drawing based on it (movies always seem to inspire me to create art, but I rarely follow through). While trying to think of what to draw, my mate Andrew busted out a giant scream in an attempt to unleash his inner bleeder. That was all I needed to whip up this guy …
Despite the thunder and lightning getting thrown around last night, I headed down to The Fort to check out the “Fly on the Wall” show, featuring SOFLES, LISTER, SAIKOE, BLIGS, YUIN HUZ and GLOUCESTER. It was kept to just the front two rooms of the Fort, but there was an amazing amount of quality art there, so much colour everywhere. The paint spilled from one canvas to the next, across the walls and really needs to be seen in person. The show is up til Feb 18 so make sure you check it out!
SAIKOE
SOFLES
BLIGS
