Over the last month I have been working extremely hard creating the artwork for 2 new artist book with narratives.
Finally with a lot of hard work I have created and printed the posetives ready to screen print, I have prepared my screens and exposed the image onto them, mixed and tested my colours and now I have a small run of books.

Here are some tasty shots of them.

I was invited to exhibit at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, this time in “The Weird and Wonderful Exhibition”.

Here is my contribution.

For the last few weeks my home town Halesowen has been hosting a little festival for us art folk, Halesowen Arts Fest, and I have been getting involved.

I designed their logo and then I exhibited at Halesowen Library.

Last night was the main event and they finished up with a cracker!

A great show with hilarious hosts and an array of talent.

It had it all, dance, music and me.

Here are some photo’s from the night of me undertaking my live drawing and then the finished piece.

A big thank you to Halesowen Arts Fest for a incredibly enjoyable evening can’t wait for next year!

Photo’s by Sarah Taylor and thanks for filling in some of the block colours for me!

So I’m getting close to finishing the Installation I have been working on and I don’t want to give much away so here are some sneak peaks.

I have been invited to showcase some of my work in the cabinets of Halesowen library for Halesowens Arts Fest. The main event will take place on the 27th of April, which you will not want to miss!
Head down the library to check out my work and the other brilliant artists too.

Keep up to date with them here – http://www.facebook.com/halesowenartsfest

Here is an update on the tree progress for my installation.
I have 15 ready to paint!

The first image is the frames, followed by the covered frames.

So we have had a pretty lovely week, a taste of spring.

I have been outside getting messy, making tree trunks with the help of my sister.
Although the sound of croaking while the frogs made tadpoles in the background was a little of putting to say the least, with the music cranked up to drown them out the trees blossomed nicely.

Here is the progress.

Luckily I picked up some tips from Neil when I was young.

Wonder what I am making?

I continued with the LineUp piece today, firstly changing the troll character to the left and then playing with some colour ready to do a print.
Also this is the line up from left to right; Troll, Sasquatch, Bébé, Paul Bunyan and the LumberGod.

Here are some of the colour arrangements,

Click on the images to see the colour better!

Been chiseling away as well today here the tree stump.