The Egoist
Not a self portrait of my ego, no no noooo.
Painted in watercolour on paper. Doing a watercolour of this nature is like walking a tightrope for two days, one lapse and it's over.
Other Scenes
I've been designing some characters for a charity website, these were deemed a little too abstract.
L.A. Woman
This Bond-esque illustration accompanies a book review of the pulpy "Queen Takes King" by Gigi Levangie Grazer. For L.A. Magazine.
Bitten By Wolves
This is a work in progress for a great band from my homeland-
The Keys. Their new album will be called Bitten by Wolves.
Barack Rock
This is for the Barack rock site, please visit it here. It provides free exclusive songs with individual art to inspire donations to the Obama campaign.
Side 2
I stumbled across this in a box of old printed work, I'd completely forgotten doing it. The record was for a band called Young Heart Attack. From 2003.
Must be something in the water
After experimenting around with these, I thought about Rick Griffin and bought a great new-ish monograph - Heart & Torch. I first saw his work back in Wales when I was 13 and my mynde was newly poured cement. Reading the book, I found that at the height of his poster period he lived and worked 2 streets away from where I made these.
Beastie Boys animation
Made for the Beastie Boys some time back, but has only recently surfaced on ol' you tube. I drew every last line of this sucker. A slightly crisper version can be seen if you double click on it, and select "watch in high quality" in the bottom right hand corner.
ZOO
A Deco-dent identity for a friend's film production company, based slap in the middle of Hollywood.
Another dimension
This is from a book my agent has just published- Beat #4 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Each artist in Heart tag teams the poem. It's very lovingly curated/created. My piece comes right at the start. Pop-Turner.
Festival Spirit
This is a rock poster for a Swiss festival done some months ago, it's actually the pitch visual, but I prefer it to the finished piece.
I love Lucifer
This was done for an upcoming exhibition, details here
I love the original Pete & Dud Bedazzled, it's the one 60's film I can watch over and over again, Faustian pacts are eternal, so it's still relevant. Stanley Donen's direction is deft as hell- it all looks great, and has a handsome Bo' Dudley soundtrack. Dudley's Welsh intellectual is a rare treat - not so often you see Welsh and intellectual in the same sandwich. My forgery is based on the Ready steady go section."you fill me with inertia....."
out on dvd.
With The Beatles, 2964
I believe that The Beatles will eventually be cloned and sent out as goodwill ambassadors to far off galaxies.
The Maharaja of Synthi
This was done last summer for the Beck album The Information.
I'd like to hear him.
Rock me I'm a Deus part 1
This was done a year or so back. It's based on Norma-Jean Wofford- "The Duchess", Bo Diddley's guitar player in the early 60's.
"I think a lot of Norma-Jean," Diddley said. "She stayed with me until 1966, but then she got married and went to live in Florida. She was, like, a very honest person to be in the group. I mean totally honest, you know. She used to be my bank. I used to tell her to keep all my money, and stuff like this, and she would do this for me. The Duchess came from a very good family. They were very nice to me, and they were like a big family, you know. When I met them, they immediately accepted me as a friend, and not just somebody that was famous. Her mother treated me as if I was one of hers. It was just like being home. It was really great: they were beautiful people. I think I made a good choice because she did shine a light on the Bo Diddley aggregation."
Other scenes
After a hard days heavy realism, plonked down in front of some bad t.v. I sometimes do some detox doodling. These pictures I sort of hallucinate on to the page, with no plan of action. So far all I want to draw in this manner are imaginary bands.
The Ballad of Joko part 3
This was the first off the pencil of the 3, they are all quite large drawings. They were inspired by reading "John Lennon in America". The book doesn't paint the most glorious picture of Mr & Mrs Peace. Whatever she was, he certainly seemed to need her.
Howlin' Wolf's last stand
This drawing was created from several screenshots I took of a Howlin' Wolf documentary. His final performance.
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