Them Kush Clouds

I've been meaning to post these updates to the current project for a while. I've been deep in HTML trying to pull together the website.

A lot of work to go still, clean ups, colour adjustments, subtle changes, but these are the prints so far, minus two that I am currently working on.

I have displayed them in the order I started development and [I hope] you can see the slight changes in approach. you see these originally started off as colour concepts so I could paint them, but being the geek I am I was concentrating on details far too much. So I figured I may as wel release these as prints. Still a lot to do and quite a bit of time.. but you can't take tim for granted.

Grey Velvet

This commision I did for someone in the later part of summer was the starting point/ influence for me to carry on the line of prints that I'm currently working on [see previous post].

It's also an example of why I need a better camera other than my iPhone!

test

this is a test

New prints of haze

For the last month or so I've been working on a batch of prints for an upcoming exhibition. We all know smoking is bad for your health, very harmful. There is also a cool stigma too the habit, with great photography work exemplifying the poses, mood and attitude of the subject.

Using references I have concentrated on sketching woman, adorning each with tribal markings and jewelry akin to different cultures. It's no secret that I like drawing women!

But two things I have never felt completely satisfied with my approach too,  is drawing good smoke and creating good texture in my images. So a main concentration in this project are attacking those two things to subjects. This started with a painting I did in the summer, and another illustration of some complex smoke clouds, which I will post up soon. More updates on the way.

JUSTICE & UNITY!!!

I have been busy people!

Quite a few images have been created and I'm working on a couple of ongoing projects. Here's a lil  Captain America inspired sketch I pulled out a while ago, I painted it too I'll post that up pretty soon.

Ruby

Secret Walls X Cass Arts X Liquitex @ The Garage

Thursday night was a fun one, haven't taken part in this in a while. Myself and Alfa were put head to head against Candy Lo and Hicks at Secret Walls at the Garage n Highbury.
Sponsored by Cass Arts and Liquitex the special touch to this event is that we got to use spray paint!! Yes People that is right Spray Paint indoors! Go OOOOONNNNN!

Ok so Liquitex have released an acrylic based spray paint. There fore no fumes (well it smells slightly like vodka). Now at the touch it feels similar to the pressure of a general can we are used to like MTN94 e.t.c. The difference is the application. It doesn't dry as fast, so you have to be careful and not much allowances for those who are used to cut backs for those fine details. However this does allow a great deal of space for blending and creating some really good drip effects, marbling, and a quite possibly great for combining brush marks. I'm personally looking forward to using these on a large canvas. My preferred brand for canvas work has been Montana Gold however I think these may be great after getting used to them.

Glowing

I've been pretty busy people. Developing the new site, more developments on the typeface and experimenting with more digi paint techniques.

Here's some colour experiments.

Typeface in progress

A typeface I’m working on as apart of a project for Black History Month.

I have no name for it yet... But I'm leaning towards something to do with A Tribe Called Quest!

I've drawn Inspiration from West African wood carvings and sculptures. Elements of Caribbean Latin American have no doubt crept in, as there are developments of African art in both places. 

Concentration on geometric shapes and angles that are strong features of carvings have been considered. 

There is still a lot to do regarding the forms and the characters, ongoing progression will be concentrated around the accents of lines and how they interact with horizontal and vertical forms.

So far I'm happy with it, but my eyes are getting pretty wide and weary!!

The background image does not belong to me, courtesy of:

Vanilla Shorty@ http://web.stagram.com/n/vanillyshorty/

via

http://glama-zona.tumblr.com/

New Brush and Some Ink

[Dirty Hands Sticky Fingers]

 [Dirty Habits]

[Anarchy]

[Jeba Loves You]

[Something that Means Something]

I love playing with type and calligraphy. A while ago I bought a new pen.. but just took a while for me to actually get my head down and have a play with it. 

Here are some practice pieces, a bit of play with forms, trying to make type that I'm influenced by become my own.

Still further development to go.

JEBA X Major Lazer X Red Bull Music Academy

I was quite excited for the opportunity to jump in on this project. Every year Diplo's Major Lazer colloborate with Red Bull to throw a massive party at the Nottinghill Carnival. They always combine good/ quirky visuals with their amazing ensemble of music.

As much as I would have loved to paint one of the walls that wasn't my task this time round!!

Myself and Tony Riff were set the task of bringing casts of skulls alive (I've got a thing for skulls!), making some ables pop, and then I had the extra job of making some benches look special!!

I do not know why...but Riff had decided to set up camp in a box! He was in his element throughout the duration in his creative box!

The skulls were interesting, we had a variety of small and large ones. The benches however I got really into. I wanted to create some imagery that worked with the simple shape of.. well an elongated box! How do you compliment that?!

Well being that the Major Lazer crew glorify their caribbean and somewhat Southern American influences, I wanted to come up with imagery that worked alongside that. I though a totem pole and wood sculpture inspired approach was the best angle. The colours we had to play with were pretty zany, used properly they compliment each other well.

I also had a bit of a hand from Trips, being a West London local he passed through for dabble.

I Like Green

It was such a nice day in London

JEBA X Juno X Boxpark

A week ago myself and InkFetish were invited to take part in a live paint session on the top deck of Shoreditch's Boxpark.

I went for a Geisha holding a bushidi... So it turned out to be a light saver pretty much!
Soon I'll post the original illustration.

JEBA X TONY RIFF (again)