Saturday, March 3, 2012

Zizzi Woking














Hello! The past three days I've been working on two new walls for the refurbished Zizzi restaurant in Woking-here's some (blurry) photos! The wall of trees took a day and a mild case of vertigo to complete, it was also completely freehand. The illustrated wall was based on the large Italian community who reside in Woking, many of whom immigrated from Sicily and began to work in the nearby mushroom fields in Chobham.

The mural was tough work, a mixture of paint and posca pen which looks deceptively simple but was actually composed of a number of overlapping elements, I really took to the colour scheme applied throughout though. Large scale jobs are always fun, there's something hugely satisfying about slapping large quantities of emulsion onto freshly painted walls-ahh-and I was really happy with how everything turned out, the staff were incredibly friendly too!

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Agent Orange






I have been crazily busy these past two months, INSANELY so. This is a good thing, a great thing, it bodes well for 2012. But. It also means I'm surviving on around four hours sleep a night and haven't left the flat for anything other than work in a loooong time. That's when shit like this starts to happen.

Last night I spent nine hours working on a large Orange themed illustration (a little snippet of it above!). This morning in a bleary eyed haze I absentmindedly dressed like this. Life imitating art in the most banal way possible - tonight I'm going to aim for a solid eight hours sleep.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

First Date


Happy Valentines Day! So far I have recieved a generic card from a printers and a stranger sneezed on me on the bus this morning so it's been my most successful one to date.

Hope you're all avoiding intensely awkward social scenarios and slimy creeps but if not, this is the Valentine's card for you*

It's also featured on the Lazy Oaf blog today-hurrah!


*possible inscription-

Roses are red
Violets are blue
This is a knife
Give me your shoes

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Last Night


Annoyingly alert for 2am and too cold to sleep so here's some crappy illustrations!

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Pocketto Magazine



The folks over at Pocketto Magazine have featured my 'underwhelming shopping basket' illustrations and a little interview on their new blog - go have a look!

I realise the above illustration has absolutely nothing to do with this post but I'm shattered and my brain had turned to jelly so ho-hum. Jelly....ice-cream...jelly...oh jeez.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Tower Hill









Practicing drawing on windows/glass in preparation for some live drawing I'm doing at Zizzi Tower Hill from tomorrow until Thursday 2nd. Have also succeeded in freaking out my next door neighbour who thinks I'm a peeping Tom(asina?)

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Wednesday

I had the urge to punch a lot of people in the face today. Then a workmate showed me this. Now everything is right with the world again.