Llanddwyn Island

Watercolour painting of Llanddwyn Island, Anglesey. Available as a print HERE.

Swallow Falls and Llanberis Pass watercolours

Two recent watercolour paintings based on the Welsh landscape. Swallow Falls, Betws-y-Coed and the Llanberis Pass. Both available as prints HERE. Some process pics for your perusal below.

Jazz portraits

I posted the sketches a few weeks back of my Jazz portraits but here's the finished versions (top to bottom - John Coltrane, Charlie Mingus, Thelonious Monk). Brush pen drawings coloured digitally (incorporating a lot of paint scans!). The first three are available to buy now from my shop. I'll be adding more as I do them.

Brand new "Mini Submarine" screen prints

Thanks to the ever helpful Dan Berry I've finally produced my first ever screen print. It's been a long time coming! Here's the "Mini Submarine" print. It's A4 (210 x 297mm) and printed on thick watercolour paper.

There's 50 of the orange edition and a special gold edition for 3 lucky customers.

They'll be for sale on my shop from 12 o'clock tomorrow (Friday 30th May at 12 noon time). I'll be giving away 3 of the gold prints with the 1st, 5th and 15th prints sold. All prints are signed and numbered.

Thin White Duke

Station to Station-era Bowie.

Available as a print HERE.

Quadrophenia

I was asked to contribute to a movie themed show in Paris by the brilliant Seb Mesnard. I could choose any film I wanted. I struggled for a while. That's a pretty open brief and there were just too many choices - The Apartment, Annie Hall, Dirty Harry, Westworld, Rollerball, Chungking Express, The Royal Tenenbaums, A Clockwork Orange, Beyond The Valley of the Dolls - then I noticed the DVD of Quadrophenia on my shelf. I can't count how many times I've seen this film. If I ever catch it on TV I have to watch it to the end. It's one of those films. The piece I'll send to Paris will be an original ink drawing with no computer involved at all but I've also produced a digitally coloured version to be made available as print . Below are the earlier stages of the illustration - pencil sketch and the finished line work. I always enjoy seeing other illlustators process so I thought I'd share.

Star Wars print - "Happy Hour"

My print for the Hang Gang Star Wars group show in Leeds. Available from the exhibition or from my shop (from Monday May 7th).

"Lost in the Woods" print and new sketches

"Lost in the Woods" is a new print that will be available in an edition of 20 (signed and numbered) in my shop on Monday (27th February). It's based on a sketch I did earlier this week (see below). As you can see from the sketches I've recently bought an orange brush pen.

Gocco No. 2

My second attempt at a Gocco print. This time it's a cleaner print but I'm missing the texture that the first one had (the same texture I moaned about last time. See, I told you was never happy!). It was drawn with a fineliner pen which gives it more of lino print feel which I quite like. This has a sakura theme and is to be sold as a limited edition A6 print at the Tokyo Jazz Panda stall at the Japan Day in Liverpool this Saturday (July 19th). I'll be there at some point so if anyone who reads this is in the vicinity, come along.