What am I playing at?!

Hey, sorry no posts for a while I'm in the final throws of building the house and we should be in less than two weeks.

I have a heap of stuff to post when I find the time. So to keep you busy I've included the most recent (Australian band) Grinspoon video, to which I contributed a quick caricature of Marilyn Manson. The whole video is in the paper craft style, not really suited to me but I snuck one in (at about 1:10), blink and you'll miss it though...

I'll be back soon posting from the new studio, oh yeah!

New Matilda Cartoon Competition Entry

A while ago I mentioned the New Matilda prize for political cartooning. I urged everyone to vote for me, which worked because I made it into the finals.

The final entries were voted on by a panel of judges, including Australian cartooning legends Bill Leak and Peter Broelman, and I was lucky enough to come away with third place.

Not too shabby.

So here's my entry, thanks for those who voted, and I have a few editorial carton outlets at the moment so as soon as I'm allowed to post them I will.

To put the cartoon into context, it was drawn of the back of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's multi billion dollar economic stimulus package. Some said it wouldn't work, some said it was too big, some said it would really f**k the economy...all good fodder for a cartoon.

Re: Quick Portrait

Here's a quick painting I did of a friend's son for his birthday. It was nice to be bit more serious in my work and I had to keep telling myself that it's a portrait not a caricature...a good fun couple of hours though.

Recent Commissions

Here are a few recent commissions for a national clothing store's promotions. They're all pretty large (1m +) so there tends to be a lot of detail going on in tight deadlines, but I'm happy with how they turned out. The seagul was a personal favourite - just subtle caricaturing.

Recent Work

Here's just a couple of recent things, a commission and a live caricature. The commission is an A3 digital painting and the live piece is A4 and about 4 minutes ink on paper.

Train sketches

Here are a couple of sketches I've done recently on the train trip into the city...


Old Man


Kin Jong Il, He's definitely fodder for caricaturists and this one was inspired by Terry Dunnett's cracker caricature, see it at http://tel5521.blogspot.com/

A Giraffe...okay it was a long trip..

The New House...so far

This is a post for the family and friends who are eager to see how our new house is coming along. It's looking good and hopefully we'll be in by the end of July.

For those who aren't up to date, we are building a new house, I designed it and am excited to see it come together. It's also the reason behind my sporadic posting on the blog as all of my spare time is spent at site working or in the studio designing the details to finish it off.

Very exciting!Front entrance


Rear of the house, living on left and sleeping/working areas on right


Interior of the Living/dining/kitchen


Um...stairs

Entrance
My new studio, oh yeah!