Uberkaboom 7" Cover Artwork

"She's a Hurricane" the A side

 "Party Party Tuk Tuk" the AA Side

I was recently asked by a long time friend of mine Tom Mansi to produce a double A side cover for his band Uberkaboom. As you can see I had a lot of fun, and it was great working with them as they were very open to different ideas.

The Single is released on 20th November and they are having a launch party at the Blues Kitchen in Camden. If your wondering what they sound like please visit their website, and witness the kookiness that is Uberkaboom:

www.uberkaboom.com

Getting back into Personal Practice

It's been a while since I've posted in this blog as I've been busy with my automotive art.
I've been itching to experiment and get back into trying different things so here is the first of hopefully many varied posts.
Here is a quick painting of my wife's legs and a baby changing bag. I'm trying not to go into too much detail and work with more definite and bold strokes. This has been done using an iPad and Art Rage.

Wilma!!!

Wilma!!!

(Oil on Board)

This is based on a digital sketch I did a while back and I've only just got round to doing this as a full oil piece. This is the first time I've worked in full colour for a long time and I've really enjoyed it so expect more of this to come.

This is an entry for an upcoming group show in Bristol. Fingers crossed it will please the curators.

Tribe Youth (Ink Sketch)

Indian Ink on Bristol Board

Been a bit busy with more commercial work so my first posting of the year is a bit late. Had the chance to try out some different techniques in applying ink.

GRAFIK WARFARE - Brighton Open House show

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FRIDAY 26th NOVEMBER until SUNDAY 12th DECEMBER

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SATURDAY 27th Nov, SUNDAY 28th Nov
SATURDAY 4th Dec, SUNDAY 5th Dec
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PRIVATE VIEWINGS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST

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Secret Sub Urban Jam, Cambridge

My piece from Saturday at the Secret Sub Urban Jam put together by Blight Society Blight Society Massive thanks to Jon and the Blight Society Crew for putting on the event.

Also Big thanks to SNUBfor hooking us up with this one, and to Leeks and

Obe-Onefor the great company.

Graphik Warfare Bio Hazard Show, Essen Germany

Grafik Warfare Biohazard Show at the BANDITEN WIE WIR bar in Essen, Germany. Colour theme is black white and green.

The show runs fro the 10th of September until the 26th.

More info and links here courtesy of SNUB

http://snub23.com/gw-bio-hazard-show/

Tribal Siren (Acrylic on Board)

Tribal Siren(detail)

The Tracker (A1 Poster)

Poster submission for the "Hacking the City" exhibition at Museum Folkwang Essen Germany:

http://www.museum-folkwang.de/en/exhibitions/future-exhibitions/hacking-the-city.html

The Tracker (detail)

DECKED 2 Final Piece

Tribal Sirens (full board)

Acrylic on Skateboard

detail

detail

Done for the Decked 2 (2010) Hand painted skateboard exhibition:

thedeckedproject.blogspot.com/

Private view 18th August 2010 6:30 onwards

Runs until 26th August

"The Decked Project is a fine and dandy collection of artists / illustrators / designers / tattoo artists and generally ink-stained fellows. The first exhibition was held at Stolenspace gallery in London in 2009 and will be back by popular demand in August 2010 at The Coningsby Gallery, London."

Really enjoyed doing this piece took a while to get the composition working but pleased with the end result, shame the picture doesn't really do it justice. More of this kind of thing to come as I'm currently working on a submission for the Grafik Warfare show in Germany (Septmeber more info shortly).

DECKED 2

I'm currently working on a Custom deck for this show. I'll be posting images later this week.

"The Decked Project is a fine and dandy collection of artists / illustrators / designers / tattoo artists and generally ink-stained fellows. The first exhibition was held at Stolenspace gallery in London in 2009 and will be back by popular demand in August 2010 at The Coningsby Gallery, London."

More info HERE:

thedeckedproject.blogspot.com/

Martin Squires Automotive Illustration

I've just started a seperate blog for my latest side project:

Martin Squires Automotive Illustration

For those who like to get their hands oily as well as inky.

More Tribal Sketches

Here are some lunchtime sketches from this week. The top image is a study based on a Hans Silvester Photo. I really like these improvised head dresses I'm definitely going to do some more of this kind of stuff. Especially seeing that the colours are so great:

http://acidolatte.blogspot.com/2009/05/hans-silvester.html?zx=6a1d4bcc62c2b71d

Hazardous Waste Show @ Graffik Gallery (Ladbroke Grove)

THanks to all those that came down to the Grafik Warfare show over the weekend. It was an amazing show with a huge amount of work and all of it top notch. Thanks go out to Snub and The Grafik Gallery for putting on such a great show. More pics can be seen here:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/grafikwarfare/pool/

As well as the show we did a live paint on the Saturday which was great fun. I got to paint a 2m high Dogon Character (see top image). The full wall can be seen here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mishfit/4395463280/

Jack Rose Cover City Paper (Philadelphia)

City Paper (Philadelphia) kindly commissioned me to do a recomposition of the Jack Rose Memorial Portrait for their cover story. There are memorials happening worldwide at the moment it's amazing to see such appreciation for a great artist. I'm really looking forward to the Cafe Oto Show next Tuesday line up is looking great.

It all seems to be going on for me in Philadelphia at the moment I've gone city wide with the paper cover and I have a piece in the heArt Show at Jinxed. Couldn't ask for more really.

Hazardous Waste Show @ Graffik Gallery (Ladbroke Grove)

This is going to be a packed show. 26 Artists from the Grafik Warfare Collective plus some special guest artists. I won't be posting any of the WIP as it's all under wraps until the show starts at the end of Feb. Feel free to come down on Friday 26th as this is open to all. Also there is a live paint on the Saturday which is always good.

heArt Show @ Jinxed 2010

Ok all done and ready to ship out to Jinxed in Philidelphia not hugely different to the last post just a little bit more colour. This is a huge show with over 100 artists . Can't wait to see what others have done. Snub has done a blinder:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/snub/4324411935/

This is being shipped out with mine tomorrow.

heArt Show Philadelphia (part 1)

Bearded Farmer (Acrylic on board)

Piece (unfinished) for the heArt Show at Jinxed in Philadelphia next month. This is a group show where 100+ artists do their thing on a heart shape.
Almost done just got to add some subtle colour then it's bon voyage.

Dr Ragtime

I have just posted Images of my Jack Rose portrait up on this lovely blog about Jack Rose (man that guy loved pizza):

www.drragtime.com

This blog is free to post on so if you have something Jack Rose related you'd like to post go ahead. There are a couple of Memorial gigs going on in the States that will surely be amazing, but alas I will not be able to go.

Vulture Study

Lunchtime water colour study.

Waiting for the Vultures Descent (part 1)

Started this on Sunday. I'm currently planning this to be the left panel of a 2 panel piece. Acrylic on board 3 colours (black, white and burnt sienna).

Jack Rose Memorial Painting

Memorial painting I have done for Jack Rose. Detail Images can be seem on my Flickrpage.
Thanks goes out to L.I.G. for the permission to use her lovely photos.