Options and Antlers.

So, I have been working on a few new things lately. There are a number of new products coming along very soon, I will be updating the shop in the next couple of weeks with some exciting things.

Firstly there is this: It's called 'Antlers.' (Shoes and purple carpet not included.) This is a colour test I did; I'm not branching into Sub- Warhol territory just yet. Thought it might be interesting to show the process and all that...


2 colours available - Autumn Antlers
                             - Winter Antlers

Printed on Giclee Hahnemuhle Photorag 308gsm paper. 
Limited to 100 prints, signed and numbered.

There's been a bit of a delay on these but will be fully available next week!!!!
















More products in the next few weeks!

Caustic Soda Update: Ebay, Like buttons and a new product.

I've been going one week, and have successfully made some sales which is both amazing and scary. I have also got a new(ish) print now fully available:

The Heart Of The Forest. 
Printed on Giclee Hahnemuhle Photorag 308gsm paper. 
Limited to 100 prints, signed and numbered.ned and 











I'm also working another new print which might be sorted next week which is exciting. I've also managed to work out how to install a like button on my site as well as an ill-fitting twitter symbol - will have to work that one out...

All items are up on Ebay too just as an experiment, they seem to be picking up views without much advertising which is a nice surprise, but it all helps!

Anyway massive thanks for all the views/shares/likes, and of course sales. Here's hoping for a second successful week!

Caustic Soda launches

So for the last week or so I have been furiously working on getting my online shop sorted. Well it is all done and up and open for all to see. So far I've added 4 active products.

1. Love Will Tear Us Apart. Actually, Sharks will.
2.Parliament
3.Love Kills
4.Amongst The Trees


All for £22 each, they are A3 and printed on Giclee Hahnemuhle Photorag 308gsm paper. 
Limited to 100 prints, signed and numbered.

Here's the shop: Caustic Soda - online shop


I'm working on two different strands with this work. Love and Forestry. The two themes are obviously made for each other clearly. I have one more that's not quite available but will hopefully be joined by some more wood themed friends soon.




I am planning on creating a larger range of products in the future and am Caustic Soda - hopefully soon there will be a newsletter too.
looking for collaborations for anything from t-shirts to furniture to absolutely anything interesting to print on. I also have a Facebook page where you can directly interact with the store here:


If the name of the shop seems strange, it comes from my surname. I used to think my surname was really cool, it was short and sounded awesome. Unbeknownst to my youthful exuberance  the name was used for Sodium Hydroxide aka Caustic Soda aka body-melting cover up chemicals. Nice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lye


Anyway, Caustic Soda has quite a nice ring to it so there you go...

If anyones interested, (and I know you will be) other famous Lyes include Len Lye (famous animator from New Zealand) and the town of Lye in the West Midlands.


Thanks for reading, please help by sending this blog and the following all around the world via the internet machine...Cheers!

Help! My Vagina is Falling Out!

Happy Friday!!!


The above images were made for Help! My Vagina is Falling Out!  - a non-for profit organisation run by volunteers that have experienced - either personally or professionally - the struggles of being a mother.  They want to work together to help anyone struggling with postnatal depression, pregnancy or being a mother.

I had loads of fun making these, particularly that elephant.

The site is here:

http://www.helpmyvaginaisfallingout.co.uk/

Moby Dick

Moby Dick illustration -  inspired by my inability to get through the book. I  borrowed this book ages ago from a friend and have so far failed to get though it. I believe we even had some sort of bet that I would get through it in 3 months or something. Try 3 years.

Inside the book is this inscription:

"To my long lost friend Ernie, may we live forever

love, John Gray."

I think that's pretty beautiful and inspired me to really really want to want to try to read this book. It was going great, then I stopped. Perhaps this post will really relight my desire to find out what happens. Or perhaps as is more likely, it won't.

It really is a great book though, I'm about half way through it, and will endeavour to get it read. The illustration came from the feeling that I had to get back into it. I also wanted to make some more covers as I had done for 'The Catcher In The Rye'.

There's something really nice about making book covers, especially a book like this, where there is so much to draw from, which incidentally I have made it all the way through. This was made for a Forbidden Planet Blog I wrote about in a previous post. I don't know if there was ever a winner but it was good to do and was posted here:

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/where-have-all-the-illustrators-gone-a-gallery-of-entries/

Pullman Porter, Grotbags and a really old music video

I recently created this image for my friend Dave's Folk Punk project, Pullman Porter. His music can be viewed here, the first song is my favourite, which incidentally has me and my wife to be on backing vocals on the chorus. Hooray!

It's all here:

http://pullmanporter.bandcamp.com/

While we're on the musical thread I also made this for my band 'The Dead Anyways'.(also with Dave) We needed something green and anarchic, so who better than lovable Children's TV pantomime villain/Witch, Grotbags. I'm pretty sure she didn't dribble like this but these things just happen when I'm drawing. Will possibly be coming at you as some sort of tee shirt soon!

We play some exciting 3 chord punk music, a selection of which, as well as my face in deep concentration can be heard on bandcamp:

http://thedeadanyways.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2012


Over the years I've made a few different things with Dave; I made the video below for him about 6 years ago,  for an acoustic song called 'Bred From Honour'. Basically, it's filled with big robots destroying stuff with an underlying message about big corporations and all of that. The robots themselves are now being incorporated into a new project I'm making with my studio mate Anthony Lamb.
I think it is always good to revisit old pieces of work -  I think there are a few faults in this, but there's a lot of fun bits and pieces in it -  it's pretty simple too.  I'd almost forgotten it existed up to a short while ago, and enough time has passed where I don't look at it and feel too critical, it's just having fun creating something for someone else.

The Catcher in the Rye..after what seems like forever.

Oh my goodness - it's been a long old while...

Here's a cover made for Forbidden Planet's blog about book cover illustration. Don't know if anything ever came of that particular call for entries but here's mine anyway...they are all up on the blog still - I think it's a bit of a shame the FB guys never sorted out a shortlist.

They are all here in any case:

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/where-have-all-the-illustrators-gone-a-gallery-of-entries/