Are You Coming To The Exhibition?

You totally should. Anybody who's anybody will be there... Well, that's what I'm telling everybody, then hopefully anybody will turn up.
There is a map below, you know, becasue... maps are good.

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Get Serious

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Warhol Skate Decks

Woah! I totally have to tell you guys about this. Alien Workshop are soon to release a series of Andy Warhol skate board decks. I'm totally going to get one and hang it on my wall, next to this Tokidoki deck that my wife got me for our anniversary (thanks wife, you are awesome btw). Then I will have two awesome decks on the wall, and I'll look at them and my eyes will go "yaaaa awesomeness overlooooad!!" and I'll have a look away for fear of going blind from the awesomeness. True story.

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Time To Meet

Ok so, at the moment I'm working on a few digital pieces that will be limited edition Giclee prints, same theme - Pop Art, Benday dots etc, I love the solid colours, so obviously brushless!

Oh man, I actually quite like this piece - might use it for a new blog title, it needs an upgrade.

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Where London Stood

I'm feeling pretty onto it at the moment, most things are sorted out for the exhibition including professionally printed invitations and even attractive volunteers to hand out the wine and food on the exhibition night, oh man! Totally sorted. Just a few smaller things to do, print title tags for each of the pieces, get some prints sorted, clip my toenails etc.

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Wordsmith

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OMG

OMG
What more is there to say?

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Never Enough

Oh man, I love these because they look like woodblock prints, something I've always wanted to do! Never Enough, alone these words have their own individual meaning, together something totally different. Deeeep.

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Smithereen

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Orbells Bijou

There is something about this one that has a real Lichtenstein feel about it, I think it's the fact that it's a big soppy kiss! Oh man, girly.

A close up showing the Benday dots.

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Building An Army

I'm having a hard time trying to work out how many pieces I'll need for the April exhibition, the gallery is a little bigger than last time! So far I have 11 canvases and a some smaller framed gear. 15? 15, yeah 15 sounds like a good number. At least 15.

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Searching For Ben

Oh man I love big canvases! But they can take forever. Another black and white painting, this one is quite happy chilling out on my wall at the moment.

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The Caffiene Project

Speech bubbles, they are the coolest! Only trouble is you need to think of something interesting to write inside of them. Interesting things - they can be hard to think of sometimes.

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The Endless Fallen - Consider Yourself Invited

Invite - check.
Come along if you're in the area!

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Between The Flashes

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Cold War

Bigger canvas = I love it. I was going to add some russian text into the blue panel at the top and the bottom, but it looks good enough with just the benday dots I recon!

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Five Aspects Of Distraction

Ahhh so - Just got back from ten days chilling out on the Gold Coast, sleep in's, movies, shopping, BBQ's & beer. Good times. Anyways! Time to update this thing and let you know what I've been up to. I have another exhibition coming up in April, have I mentioned that already? As a result I have been working my legs off trying to produce paintings at a rapid rate, that way I will hopefully have enough interesting stuff to cover the gallery walls!

Below - I have made a series of five images, watercolour and ink. I quite like this image, might use it as the image for the invitations?

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A Full Sky

So like, colour is very cool, but there is still something about black and white that I totally love.

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The Trial

So, I am wondering to myself - where can I get sheets of perforated paper?

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Mrs Manhattan

If Dr Manhattan had a wife, she might look like this, but perhaps glowing a wee bit.

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Take & Ignore

Last two in a series of four.

So! Anyways, I have another exhibition coming up in April! It will be totally different stuff though, this time it will be more of a tribute to old comic books and Benday dots. Four months and all I have so far is pretty must just ideas, time to paint like a madman.

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A New Direction

So after reading about Roy Lichtenstein during the exhibition, I have been totally inspired to do something similar, here it is! Oh man, I love how it turned out! It's a bit of a tangent from the ink paintings, but I think I'll try and complete a series of paintings like this. Colour is a pretty cool invention.

A close up showing the Benday dots.

On the wall at home!

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Avoid

This is part of a four panel piece, Distract, Avoid, Ignore and Take. Four human qualities that tend to have a negative impact on society.

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Fo-Toes

Here are a few pics of my time in the Cloisters gallery at the Arts Centre, Christchurch NZ!. I had lots of time to read up on some library books, Warhol and Lichtenstein - Interesting dudes. I have been hit with new inspration! I might make some stuff, call it the Lichtenhol Collection... or perhaps not.

(Thanks for the pic Jono!)

Kym hanging around with me - Night of the setup.

The early morning view of the Arts Centre

Final layout - choice bro!


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Thanks All You Dudes!

Oh man, what a great week! I had heaps of fun chilling in the gallery, reading books, listening to music and talking to very interesting people. Thanks so much to everyone who stopped to chat and especially to those who took something home with them - I really appreciate your support and remember each of you, I hope they look great hanging on your walls!

So back at work, that's pretty uncool... I feel so tired. Even though I had a super-awesome time, seven days in the gallery has left me feeling a wee bit destroyed!

Red Bull Withdrawl Symptoms

Distraction has such a negative impact on people these days and I'm not sure they realise it.

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I'm Ready - I Think

Well, exhibition starts on Monday and I think I am ready for it, have all the hooks, string, tape, posters and.. oh yes, pictures ready to go. I have one hanging in Look Gallery at the moment (great place, good coffee, nice people!) and they asked if they could use it in their ad, so I said: 'Hell Yes!'. Always a buzz - being in the paper.

Anyways, as I approach the exhibition I feel excited, but also anxious. Will people like my stuff? Will it sell? Will anyone turn up? Oh man! So easy to freak out if you let yourself.

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Noble Experiment

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Future Proflie - Super Sized

Kind of hard to get a sense of scale from the photo, but here is the large canvas I'll have on the back wall - Hopefully will grab the attention of peeps passing buy, and then they will say "Oh man! Look at that interesting thing on the wall in there! Lets go in and buy stuff..."

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Sudden Changes

Oh man - Sorting things out for the exhibition takes ages! But I'm totally done, I think, I'm pretty sure actually, but I could be wrong, but I hope not. I finished a large canvas over the weekend (pics on their way), the last thing I had to do! So, now I just need to wait for the day to come, then I can realise all of these other things I should have done and have a total freakout. Awesome.

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