Continental Philosophers

My good friend and colleague, Lee Hazeldine has worked really hard getting my sister site: beefys-caricatures up and running. As a thank you (and trade-off) I created these 3 illustrations.

The portraits are of French continental philosopher's; Lacan, Foucault and Derrida, and they look great (if I do say so myself) in Lee's newly decorated dining room!

Creative Nottingham Image Competition!

Hey hey hey!

Check out my competition entry here!!

Creative Nottingham Image Competition

Here is a commission I completed a couple of months ago for the Economic Review of Abu Dhabi. This is His Excellency, Mubarak Hamad Al Muhairi - The Director General of the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority.

I love these portrait commissions - the turn around is usually quite good and the subjects are always varied!

New commissions

Wow, it's been a busy few months and I have totally neglected my blog!

Am now setting myself a challenge to blog at least once a week for the next year! If I fall behind then give me a nudge!

Anyway, here are a couple of commissions I have been working on- 1st is for Greene King IPA, and second is my last image for the Abu Dhabi government (I still love saying that!)

Anyway, enough exclamation marks for 1 post!

Richard Branson- Economic Review rough

Here's my latest commission for the Economic Review for the Abu Dhabi government. Just waiting to see what changes they want. Been a very stressful job- tight deadline! Well, hope they like it!

Now this is what a professional brief should be...!

New Painting

Have been wanting to start painting again for a while now. Been hung up on whether it should look good? whether it should communicate something specific? if it will be fine art or illustration? commercial? it makes my head hurt and my motivation dwindle.

I heard a colleague of mine recently tell our students that creativity was as much an act of bravery than inspiration. where's the fear come from? the fear of ridicule, failure, derision?

I have tried to concentrate on the process rather than solely on the final product. i must admit, it gave me a thrill to peel off the masking tape, revealing the crisp white paper juxtaposed with the pink brushstrokes.

eh! look at me! Juxtaposed! Must be an artist now!