3 Headspace Paintings

Set of three paintings for the Headspace "Monster" event in Osaka. Top to bottom - "Ice Cream Jean", "Harry Hachi", "Fish Griff". More photos of the night soon.

Work in progress

Tomorrow is the Headspace Monster event at Cafe Absinthe, Osaka. I'm still painting but it's almost all done. Here's a quick WIP.

Kimono fabric

One of the most exciting parts of the Headspace residency has been the collaboration with Osaka-based fashion designer, Kyoko Amano. I was asked to draw a creature based on Osaka's iconic Tower of the Sun. This image was then incorporated into a design and printed onto fabric. The fabric is to be used by Louise on one of the characters created exclusively for the Headspace event and will also be used to dress (an actual, living!) model by Kyoko inspired by our character. Here's my original illustration and a sneak peek of the fabric. All will be revealed on Saturday...

Kayamori House sliding doors mural

This weekend while Louise was holding a monster making workshop at Kayamori House I painted this mural on the sliding doors in the same room. It's been a great weekend. Met loads of interesting people. Let's do it again sometime.

Drawing Cumulus competition on TOYSREVIL

Time is running out to enter the TOYSREVIL "Drawing Cumulus" competition. Prizes include an original drawing of Cumulus (by me, obviously!), Inspector Cumulus toys, prints and copies of the first volume of my sketchbook. Thanks to Andy at TOYSREVIL for organising such a great competition and Andy Woo over at Crazylabel for donating the toys and posters. Have a look at the Flickr group to to see the high standard of entries so far. I'm overwhelmed by the reaction to Inspector Cumulus. He's got a life of his own!

Headspace "Monster" Tee

The t-shirt I designed for the Headspace "Monster" event at Cafe Absinthe in Osaka is now available online. If you're outside Japan please contact Jamie via the link for details of postage. The shirts are ¥2,000 each (roughly £15 or $25). Here's a pic of Jamie modeling the shirt with Barnaby Grangle himself.

Another bloody tree

Yes, another tree but this time with a new colour pen - ochre!