finding my keepers

its been a long-ish process finding the right
image for finders keepers. its always hard when
you are a big fan of something then you are asked to
do that love justice. many ideas were thrown around
and this image was in fact a man knitting his own beard
but you reacha point and know something isnt working..
you cant hear yours or their voice at all in the image
so that idea was scrapped and i ventured onto this..






I got really excited about the idea of chinese fans
as wings and while researching bird types i found that
the hummingbird seemed like the best candidate. the sea is
once represented in my work and i suppose if i was doing an
image that would give me a lot of exposure as a designer and
artist it would be best to play to my loves and my strengths.
so i decided on a wild bunch of birds and have been inking them all this
week..the colouring is the next stage and i think may prove to
be the toughest..

So more images from this flock soon and then the final product..

new poster art

UPDATE: heres a new poster for an idie music
night at melt bar up in the cross..tried a few
ideas out before getting to this..firstly there
was an eye in the sky and a floating staircase
led up to it..nah to pink floyd-y...then a butter
fly with atumn leaves as wings..that was ok but it
was kinda seasonal..then while daydreaming about
eye balls i realised they would make great butter
fly wings.....true story






jst a couple of quick poster
jobs i have done recently ..
one is another trip into space via
the deep blue sea with godswounds and
the other is my angry monster face made
out of american iconography and ufo's for
a doco about the odd characters that fill
out the united states..
the thing i like about this one is that it
depends on how simply you view things ..either
its america with some buildings and ufos or its
a angry monster ready to gobble everything up

sneak peak

here's a sneaky peak at the upcoming
boy and bear clip for blood to gold.
it's a pistols at dawn duel between the
sun and the moon. we shot for a day down
at bombo in kiama and it was an insanely
fun shoot..clip should be up soon!

sugar porn

so as well as doing a logo for the sugar
and spice comedy band i also did a promo
photo shoot with them . we shot it in a
tiny theatre late late at night and consumed
one too many four day old muffins and doughnuts.
it was fun but i felt a little dirty after.

oh inverted world

this is the text free art work
for the upcoming small hours album
i just really stuck on this image in my
head and wrestled with it in many forms
until we finally agreed upon this one..
sometimes being a little stubborn is a
good thing..i hope