February 2012
12 posts
Ondarte Residency
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Ondarte February exhibition is on tonight! I have spent the past month here in Mexico drawing, painting, exploring, swimming with turtles, peeling oranges, drinking beer, eating fajitas, saying yes to everything and being misled by the kindness of Mexican people. It has been amazing here and i can’t wait to show all of the work i have been doing here on my website! ONDARTE INTERNATIONAL...
Ondarte Residency
Sketchbook
35mm point and shoot
Write now journals
I recently illustrated a journal for “write now” journals. The theme was optimism, I had a lot of fun illustrating this, there are around twelve inspirational quotes and the cover.
Sightings
Ondarte Residency
While on my residency I have been working hard on a project titled “Personality” Here is a sneak peek at one of the works
Ondarte Residency
Two weeks in to the Ondarte residency today. I have made a whole bunch of work, seen a whole bunch of amazing things, this place is very amazing, Above are a few photos of me working at the residency, and one of a swim in a cenote.
Illustration research
Inspiration
Akumal - Residency
A few days ago I hopped on a plane from Sydney and headed to the mayan jungle In Akumal Mexico, a small town about 150km south of Cancun, for a month long artist residency. The first night I arrived here I was driven here in the dark for an hour or so, I had no idea where I was, it was too dark and i was way too jet lagged to know what was going on, it did not feel like I was in Mexico. The first...
January 2012
7 posts
Portraits
Work in progress… Melanie Laurent
Some Inspiration
I have always really loved the work of Charles and Ray Eames, I have probably posted their powers of ten video 50 times, a little while ago I watched a documentary on their studio and a few weeks ago a new documentary about them came out “the architect and the painter” I just got myself a copy of this and I’m pretty excited to watch it!
Wonderland City
I just finished off this illustration for Australian Traveller magazine, The article is about Wonderland City, a place i had no idea existed until i illustrated this, In 1909 tamarama beach in Sydney was a theme park, the whole beach was filled with rollercoasters, carousels, seals, elephants, rides, an aquarium, it was absolutely amazing, sadly it was closed and dismantled in 1916 and there is...
This is all that remains
I will never forget the day, I was in year ten, about 15 years old, I had worked all week on an assignment, the night before the due date my father went on to the home computer (this was about ten years ago, when everyone shared computers) all of a sudden I hear it… BAM… something bad had happened, he crashed the computer, my files were fucked, I was pissed, my dad, he didn’t...
Free living isn't free
Thank you
First day back at work, realised it is still a public holiday and most people are at the beach or sharing a drink with friends in a park somewhere… but that pretty much sums up my 2011, I have never worked so much in my life and I have never been happier. I worked on projects with the most amazing people that I could have once only dreamed of working on, I filled too many books with too many...
December 2011
5 posts
Journals
Earlier this year I illustrated some journals for Live inspired, commissioned by Colagene. I illustrated around 12 quotes, all the lines on the pages, everything all hand drawn, was such a fun job and i just received a bunch of printed copies.
Colagene
Illustration commissioned by Colagene for Publicorp Magazine du Credit Agricole, France
Shop
I have set up an online store to sell my range of greeting cards. They are also stocked in stores but for those who don’t like to deal with people and what not Click here and have a browse through some of the range
Kingswood culture
Working on an editorial illustration about kings wood culture, still working on it but liking where it’s at
Inspiration
Ok, so i get asked a little bit about how I come up with ideas and what not, so I have decided to do a little post about it. Here Goes… On the left, aggges ago I found this image of bikes piled up on top of each other. I had been given a pretty open brief by Monster Threads, however it had to be relevant to their customers, i trawled through my inspiration folder and found this, then with...
November 2011
10 posts
Lost at E Minor
Take a look through my guests posts for lost at E minor if you want to see some things i get distracted by http://www.lostateminor.com/
oldie
This is way old, i just came across it and forgot how much i love it
Travel
Greetings
A preview of the look book for my greeting card range, shot by Tommy Thoms http://thomasthoms.tumblr.com/ the look book will be released in a few weeks.
Stars of independents
Recently designed the blog and branding for the stars of independents, an Australian website featuring independent businesses from around the world, some really nice places to take note of if you are travelling through these cities.
Players Cards
Atari 2600
This is a Tough
I am working on an ongoing series of illustrations. The series is a way to observe my day a little differently, most days are spent getting to the studio, drawing, thinking etc about briefs and I just wanted to look at things in another way, looking past the obvious, or just stating the obvious in a silly way. It’s the kind of mindfulness for example, you can look at a tree and think “that...
This is winter
October 2011
5 posts
RIP Steve Jobs
If it wasn’t for this guy I probably wouldn’t have a job
Eco Housing
An editorial about eco housing, for Respol France, commissioned by Colagene www.colagene.com
Who's telling who?
This is difficult
Illustration from my this is series, you can view the whole set so far here
4 tags
Fashion Illustration
An illustration about brands creating clothing to look second hand
September 2011
7 posts
Baseball
Playing around with some old styled baseball cards
Real life Hero
Real life hero, playing around with some old baseball card style illustrations
Young writers festival
I am a part of a typography exhibition for the young writers festival next week, check out their website over her http://youngwritersfestival.org really nice site and looks like a great festival. This print is also available to buy as a print online here
Hollie Martin
A friend of mine Hollie Martin, who i grew up with, is having her first solo exhibition this friday at china heights in Surry Hills, definitely worth going to take a look. you can see more of her work here
Australian Traveller
A little editorial illustration for Australian Traveller. This was a really fun little illustration, I often have people ask the process of illustrations and i thought in the coming weeks i would do a little tutorial on this image of how it all cones about, client brief, references, sketch, changes and final. check back in a week or so if you would like to see this. Adam
Ship of fools
This has been used for a tshirt design for monster threads. I have been really really i mean really busy the past few months, I have been working on some really amazing clients and really happy with the work i have been producing. A lot of it still can’t be shown until it has been published.
Also don’t forget to check out a little on going illustration project i am working on here
Motorbike
I recently drew a motorbike for a charity raising money to purchase. For a really cool, new interactive fundraising platform. it will be up shortly, thanks to the great folks at Red Gaffa for getting me to do this up.
August 2011
6 posts
Time keeps on slip'n
Contra magazine interview
There is a full interview up online by Contra magazine over here
Needs & Wants
Needs and wants, a work in progress #fb