A couple more pieces from the Moleskine. Iggy Pop and Vincent Price, both scary dudes.

Quick post. The Silver Surfer image that I posted about on Sept 28th is up over at the Kirby Museum, how cool is that.

Really cool, I think.

As Halloween has just been and gone here are a few monster sketches that I put up on the Comic Geek Speak forum. First the one and only Cookie Monster. Next up is Ro-Man from the B movie Robot Monster. Then we have the Mole-Man's monster from Fantastic Four number 1 and finally the creepiest monster of 'em all, H R Gigers Alien.

I'll be getting back to some 'real' work just as soon as I can. I have a few ideas that are currently fermenting in my tiny brain. I'd like to do some original, one off images. I'm thinking small, six inches square perhaps. Maybe multimedia. Definitely involving an element of screen printing. I might offer them for sale here so watch this space.

Been a while since my last post. Not much to report. No new print work as I'm awaiting a new delivery of ink. In the meantime though, my Moleskine has been getting a bit of a work out.

Here is Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie (from the early 70's when he had a dodgy perm) and Orson Wells, which I think looks more like Lee Majors. Oh, well. I'll post some more later.

A few months ago I mentioned that my studio, Green Door, was hosting an international print exchange. Well, I've just received my prints from those who submitted and I have to say that I'm really chuffed with what I got in return. Here are just a couple.

The first is by Norman McBeath from Scotland and the second by Li Yong Chen from California.

I hope whoever has mine likes it.

I also managed to, finally, get a print down of 'Weight of the World'. What with my printer issues etc. I was beginning to think this would never happen. Well, here it is. Not perfect by any means. I found that a print of this size really needs to be executed on as big a screen as possible. I split each layer over two screens, which lead to some problems with registration. But hey, we learn from these mistakes, right?

Still not got any new print work to show, however this should be rectified tomorrow.

The problems that I'd had with the printer are now all taken care of. It would appear that full price Epson ink is just shit, yet cheap as chips compatibles work like a charm. Who knew?

In the mean time here is a sketch that I posted on Comic Geek Speak forum. This is Swamp Thing and Man Thing passing the time of day (did this at work tonight, don't tell the boss).

One of the places that I visit regularly on the net is a site called Covered.

The brief is for artists to submit a reinterpretation of their favourite comic book covers. There is some really nice work from very talented folks. Thought that I'd have a go. Always been a Silver Surfer fan, one of Stan and Jacks greatest creations. So, here is the befor and after:

Unfortunatly it was rejected.

Pants.

I'm officially open for business.

About three minutes ago my online shop went live. You can now buy copies of my print work. These are screen print pulled by my own hands (oops, that sounds a bit dirty, sorry). There are currently eight prints available and I'll be adding to the roster soon so go have a look to see if anything takes your fancy. Paypal is the best (actually only) way to pay, even though it was a bit of a bugger to intigrate into the HTML of the pages.

I've also been out and about checking out the competition. The Wirksworth Arts festival is, in their own words "a wealth of great art in unexpected places. Sixteen days of contemporary visual art and performance with two unmissable highlight weekends". Sound good, eh? It finishes this weekend so if your in the vicinity go take a look. The art is displayed in folk's homes so, even if the work is bad, which this year certainly hasn't been the case, you can still snoop around other peoples houses. If I can get my act together for next year I might just take part myself.

At the risk of boring everyone to death I'm still having problems with that damn printer, sigh! So that means no new print, again. In the interim I'm trying to get my shop up and running, hopefully this week some time.

I'm also working on a few promo type images that I can post on a few other places that are on my radar. Things to get folks coming here and to my portfolio site. I'll post those here once they are there, if that makes any sense.

At work today, during my lunch break, I did a little sketch of a classic Universal Monster, The Creature from the Black Lagoon.

I discovered that the printing problem that I'd encountered a couple of weeks ago (God, was it that long ago) was being caused by the damn printer itself. The paper/transparency's feed underneath a retaining bar just before the printer spits out the hard copy. This bar is fitted with small sprockets to, I presume, help the paper feed through the machine. Because the ink on the transparency does not dry instantly, like it does on paper, these sprockets were dragging the ink from its surface leaving a dozen neat rows of small dots on the image. I had to take a screw driver to the thing and remove it. I think that it still works OK but I have been unable to test this as I ran out of ink farting around with the damn thing. Ink arrives tomorrow so testing will ensue.

In the mean time I've done a little sketching in my trusty Moleskine.