Mambo Youth.

Here's two pieces I did for Mambo earlier in the year. Both available now on boys shirts, Monkey at Myer, and the Frogga one is on sale HERE.

The Black Keys

I was honoured to be asked by John at BEYOND THE PALE to illustrate a poster for the Auckland Gig for The Black Keys. MY first ever gig poster, so you can imagine how stoked I was to do it for such a great band.
After bumping around half a dozen failed concepts, John and I both hit upon the idea of Pat and Dan as super heroes.
Above is my porgress sketches from tiny thumbnails, to finished pencil sketch, colour rough, and the final 4 colour screen print art.

John has some left, but they are going quick. BUY THEM HERE.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

My Shirt Store...

So, DESIGN BY HUMANS have set me up with my own t shirt store. Check it out HERE. These designs above the only 4 I got up so far, so I need to put pen to paper and get some more out.

DON'T EAT CHEESE BEFORE BED!

New art for the Threadless Nightmare Snowboard comp. Challenge is to design a snowboard and shirt..
I went for a 'don't eat cheese before you go to bed' nightmare theme. Wish me luck.

Black Rock Collective Card Deck 3.

Our 3rd deck (art directed my yours truly) from the Black Rock Collective. Here's the blurb that will accompany then HERE at our online store:

I hear you asking, "What is this I see before me? Playing cards, or 54 little pieces of art?"

I know, I know..this is the same opening line as the first two (and award winning) BRC card decks. But this deck is completely different to it's first two predecessors.

The Black Rock Collective hurried to get this deck out as the end of the world was, according to it's sources, the year 2012, right??

This beautiful deck, with artworks of mass destruction lovingly created by 30 artists of the BRC, pays homage to all those various myths, legends and conspiracy theories about how our little blue planet might meet its demise. Each artists, some more than once, has interpreted the end of the world differently. There's horsemen, meteors, floods, pandemics, and more than one skull in this deck.

As always, the styles are as varied as the BRC's nationalities. What IS different about this deck (masterfully named 'Version 3') is that every BRC artists started with a completely black background, with the black suits reversed out in white.

We hope you enjoy our 3rd deck, and if you don't have the first two decks, go buy them NOW and make your set complete.

Watermark advertisment...

Something different this time. This was for a full page advertisement I did for Watermark. As one of 24 artists I was honoured to be asked to this. The concept was inspired by a recent Mambo piece i did, which was loosely based on old Richard Scarry illustrations I remember as a child. Did'nt we all grow up on Little Golden Books?? :)

95% pencil sketch, 5% photoshop modified. Hope you like it.