Design Work for Evil Eye Bar

I am currently working on a commision for a  new bar which is opening in my city called Evil Eye.
It is a Mexican themed bar that serves beer and burritos, and in keeping with the theme i have been asked to design some mexican style characters which will be used for advertising purposes such as posters, flyers and teeshirts. <----(Click)
They have also requested having some of them painted on the walls within the bar, which im supposed to be doing this week, so that will be fun.

The client had asked for 'Mis Noapaels' / Mexican Day Of The Dead style of illustration, which i am already a big fan of, and so i came up with the idea to do iconic celebreties in this style. Brilliant people, such as Predator and Mr Miyagi, obviously.

Predator & Jimi Hendrix

Batman & Mr Miyagi

Kurt Cobain

Featuring in Liverpool's Bido Lito Magazine

Loryn & Peggy

Some art i did for my friends music release

Lloyd Gabriel - This Year's City

My latest batch of drawings and doodles

Cheer You Up Bunnies

My Head Hurts Again

Quick Thing

Once Upon A Cat

Life Would Be So Much Easier

Some Objects Next to Each Other

What?!

Head Aches

Strawberry

Ill Quit Smoking When you Die Of Cancer

Web Of Piss

Mixed Media Knitting & Painting Exhibition

The past 3 months I and my dear friend Penelope Teapot have been working on ideas for an art exhibition.Which we hopefully would like to see happening by the end of this year.Sara is the best knitter and crafter i have ever met.You should follow her from the link above.
The exhibition is to be a mixed media of painted canvases and textile ie knitting, crochet, sewing etc.We had this idea to attach fabric and knitted things to the canvas.For example the finished picture i painted of Sara Teapot, which is actually an acrylic painted version of the same picture i painted in coffee a few months back (check older posts)..In the picture she has her hands up knitting a scarf.So we came up with this idea to replace the painting of the knitted scarf with an actual knitted scarf still on the knitting needles which could be glued to the canvas.Then using another canvas i can draw the hands and cut them out and have them holding the needles.So basically its an acrylic painting of Sara Teapot knitting a real scarf...cool idea amirite?

So we decided on some colors .These were chosen by Sara.As we both new we wanted pastel colors so it was just a matter of which ones Sara felt inspired to knit with.She decided on pink, blue and cream.Or as i call them "kawaii ice cream colors'.

So Pretty :)

                                                 

 

This is what you call professional tension

                     
This is the portrait that this beautiful example of professional crafting will be attached to.

Step1: pencil sketch and first layer of skin tone

Step2: Building up the skin and hair color and tone

I always leave the eyes till last.As adding the eyes is when a painting becomes alive.

Step4: Buy a new camera :S

Step5: seriously...new camera !

Step 6 : Give Life

We have since changed our idea so that now I am to paint another portrait.this time of my self.and the knitted scarf will hang down to this canvas either underneath or at the side of,and be wrapped round my portraits neck.
Keep your eyes peeled for more updates and creations for this exhibition.Eventually we are hoping to be selling all of it.
Thanks
Bob

Woodland Critters (Acrylic & Coffee On Canvas)

Woodland Critters

This canvas was painted with coffee and acrylic paint.I particularly like how the paint has reacted with the coffee and dried in blotches.This may not be finished yet, I cannot decide.the painting began to form as i kept leaving it stood up in front of me while i watched TV, so as to occasionally notice it with a fresh mind, and add something more to it.I will probably continue this technique.The colors make me want to add a shiny silver to it somewhere.but I'm not sure where yet,and also im not 100% happy with the 'woodland critters' being so boldly orange.I will just continue to work on it i guess, and see where it takes me.I do really like the vintage feel of this piece though.I used one of my digital drawings as a basic reference.But i did fully intend to make this a lot more colorful and Autumn themed.

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