Gifts for our families

This year we've decided to make unusual Christmas gifts for our both families, so I had A LOT of drawing sessions in a very short period of time.
Here they are; I'm more happy with some of them than with the others, but all folks seemed to be positively surprised.
It's mostly pencil on hand-made cotton rag paper, but also ink and pastel pencils.

Christmas card

Here's a Christmas card I've made for my artist friend JC from Poland; now I'm awaiting his :-)

Festive season!

Here's something with Xmas mood; part of our Christmas tree...

ARTBAG gallery

I had a great meeting on Saturday with Artbag Gallery owners; discussing modern art and inspiration. They are interested in featuring me in their online gallery, so things are looking great!

Thanks to Tayo and Rollo!

Che's Cafe

Good news!
Some of my prints are being displayed in Che's Cafe in Bristol centre; they are also available for purchase. So I encourage you to grab some nice hot coffee in this art-friendly cafe; they have a variety of prints, drawings and paintings on display - everyone will find something interesting there for sure!
I will post some photos soon.

Thanks to Emma and Gemma! ;-)

Pumpkinhugger

The 'Pumpkinhugger' drawing sold to a happy couple!

Wedding card

Couple of card designs for today's wedding; we chose the bird one (less creepy...)

Share buttons

I've just added 'Add This' share buttons - they appear underneath each post, so now you can easily share contents of this blog with your friends on your favourite social websites!

Bart

In space no one can hear you scream!

ALIEN! My beloved monster :-) Below is my version of Alien in pen and ink, topped with Photoshop. The other image is the drawing as it is in my sketchbook.

FIRE MASS Halloween Special

FIRE MASS zine, Halloween Special issue is out. Inside all - Halloween related tricks 'n treats, including my Pumpkinhugger image.
Get it here: FIRE MASS Halloween Special

Interview

Someone on Twitter invited me to do an interview on Whohub.com - website for professionals of all kinds; take a look:
Interview

More texture, form and colour...

Oil pastels and pastel pencils on A3 size paper.

Further exploration of pastels

Today I was exploring pastel Pencils a bit more (plus a hint of Photoshop).

Ebay auction

There's still couple days left to get 'Lux Vitae Meae' on ebay:
Ebay - 'Lux Vitae Meae'

'Dream Of Flying' and other stuff

Here's couple of recent drawings I've done; the four part sequence (already framed) is destined to be hanged in our living room.

Artwork on display

My friends sent me couple images of my framed artwork displayed at their house. Looks great!
Thanks to Eve and Slav.

Lux Vitae Meae - Light Of My Life

Lux Vitae Meae - Light Of My Life
This piece has been done the 'dot' way using 0.10 Rotring Rapidograph. I wanted to achieve here the mood of medieval occult drawings, but also sneak in some Moebius and Stasys Eidrigevicius influence.
21x29cm; ink on paper.

Below: detail

Ink, pastels...

Ink and pastel (pencil and oil) on 59x84cm card.

Pumpkinhugger

This will be my submission to Fire Mass Zine Halloween Special issue; I called it PUMPKINHUGGER.
I have always loved Aliens and HR Giger, so treat it as a homage to both.

Ink and pastel pencils on A1 size paper.

More fun with brushpen

FIRE MASS zine variant cover

Fire Mass zine with my variant cover on it finally arrived! That's what the mysterious package from Prague was...

Horror! Horror!

An unspecified horror character I had in mind...
Got a name for him?

Paintworks auction

The Paintworks auction and exhibition went really well; both prints sold for more than I expected!

Today's sketches

Portrait of my wife - pen and ink.

Old guy from an old book ;-) Brushpen.

More pastels

Exploring more pastels today, topped with some Photoshop.

Diableries!

Here it is folks, my first use of oil pastels; cool and messy medium.
I decided to test it on a Diablerie - artwork inspired by Guy Davies' 'The Marquis' - check the links on the right to find Guy's blog.
Devils! Devils!

Business cards

Got my buisness cards today, they look pretty cooool! :-)

FIRE MASS zine cover released

FIRE MASS horror zine will be printed for a limited period of time with my alternative version of the cover.
You can buy it here: FIRE MASS #1b

Ibanez JEM design

I can finally show you couple of designs I did for Steve Vai's competition.
The winner will be announced next week (I'm biting my fingernails right now...); there will be only two guitars like that produced - one for Steve and one for the winner, so the stakes are high!

Fire Mass zine contest

My alternative version of Fire Mass' zine cover will be printed for a week; grab your copy when it's ready, there's some cool stuff inside!
http://magcloud.com/browse/Issue/77142

'Exposition' - T-shirt design

Quite hard day today, but I managed to convince myself to do something creative. Here's my t-shirt design (you can buy it from my Zazzle store - link in the panel on the right); I think it should look alright on white.
Created with 0.10 rapidograph - cool stuff, very precise.
The idea behind it was to get the feeling of old medical books, but add something unusual - hence the musical notation.

Prints

Picked up today those two lovely prints from John King's Photographic Studio: www.johnking.co.uk
I will be donating them to The Big Local Enterprise and Paintworks autions:
The Big Local Enterprise
Paintworks