Go ride a SKATEBOARD!! & Let's make a record!!!

Hey,

Been real busy of late, so has been a bit between posts.

Tuesday was Go Skateboarding Day. Didn't get to skate much myself as I was working at a skatepark all day!! Bit of transport skateboarding was all.

Here's the new painting. Probably one of the most fun and expressive things to do on a skateboard.
Make some NOISE!!!

Here's the rough for the next. Get a radical notion...

The Happy Lonesome are making a record on the weekend. Can not wait. Expect to see record cover art progress in the upcoming weeks. It'll be based around this guy. A poster I did a few years ago, but haven't really got to use that much.

One idea. Rough. Hopefully have some more in a week or two. Until then!

An Exhibition is booked & the art of skateboarding...

Howdy!

It is finally booked....3 odd years in the making. The 'LET THERE BE GUITAR' exhibition is a happening. Dang! Time to start promoting this thang...
4th - 18th November Soma Gallery, Sydney Road Brunswick.

Next up...Skateboarding.

Been working on a few more paintings.

A tribute to the backyard plywood ramp. Plywood Pirates. Grew up skating backyard ramps. Nothing like it. Can't believe that parents did this for their kids.
 Eggplant, tucking in the knee (Grosso wouldn't be happy...).

 I love skateboarding for transport. Done a million miles plus over the years.

So here's a top FIVE.
Skate Video parts...
No.5
Chris Miller & Eric Jueden, Upland Pipeline. From the Gullwing video 'Molecules of Motion'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWR861WGv3s

No.4
Jason Jessee Santa Cruz 'Risk It' "I love art & I love you..." Coulda put numerous video parts of his up on here...This one is just damn appropriate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5FERBW-7KY

No.3
Jeff Grosso Santa Cruz 'Streets on Fire' Probably my favourite skate video EVER! watched it over & over. SST soundtrack. 16mm. Looks great, sounds great. Funny as. NERVOUS BREAKDOWN!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ymIcc54Zvo

No.2

Hard to put this at number 2, but....look who's number 1 hey. Mark Gonzales. Blind, Video Days. Very close number 2 on the favourite video front as well...Husker Du, Dinosaur...yep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Rx4gbMN08

No.1

Neil Blender (& Steve Claar) Santa Cruz 'Speed Freaks', yeah, really dig those Santa Cruz videos. Dinosaur Jr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3JjdAz1Sks

 And last a video that I really love. Not rated greatly in the skateboarding world, but hey...Just check out the session at Fallbrook in the last part, damn!!! This video just makes me feel really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8PfeBQOFRo

And last. A gig plug. Recording very soon...Then some album art to follow. You remember this guy.

lookin' forward and back again....

How's it?

Just a short post.

Here's a follow up from last week. Another Protec helmet.

This one is a tribute the the legendary Upland Pipeline skatepark & two of it's favourite sons.  Chris Miller & Steve Alba.

This is a painting from a few years back that I did for Damn it! magazine. an editorial painting for an article on Skateistan. Check them out here. Donate if you've got some spare $$$.

http://skateistan.org/

Also, I have a website now...

artbygreeny.com

Getting closer to the 'Let There Be Guitar' exhibition. Hoping to have a date and gallery real soon.

The first painting from the series, way back in 2013.

skateboards & guitars plus an exhibition!

Howdy,
Sorry again, it's been a while....
Good news, the 'Let There Be Guitar' exhibition IS gunna happen! November, should have it booked really soon.

SKATEBOARDING
 I 've been riding skateboards for some time on & off for quite a while. Skateboarding has been apart of my life for a long time. Got my first skateboard in 1978, like most kids a plastic banana board (blue with red see through wheels). I have had a skateboard in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s & still skate now 2016. Skateboarding is a creative outlet. Pretty much everything I love I can trace back to skateboarding in some way. Music, art & friends.

 Me, 1990.

Me Now. Rock'n'Roll.

  I'm currently working on some skate related work. Here's the latest...

            

Hi Ho Silver! (I was really into to Lone Ranger as a little kid, not a great photo sorry.)

And some from the last few of years or so...

Somedays

Judo Bear

Pool Wabbit

    Tribute to the full cut Protec helmet & two of the greats with signature maneuvers. Gonz, stalelfish  & Neil Blender lien air. Painted another Protec last year, yet to get a worthy photo, got another on the way.

 And a rough for the next one....

More in the next week or so....
Hopefully a date for the exhibition really soon......

Summertime King Of The Surf

Hey,

Again, been a while. Kept on sayin' all year that I'm gunna get more regular with postin' on this thing again, but another 5 weeks roll by and nothin'....

Have been drawin' and paintin' though.

Here's some of it. There's other stuff to come. Hopefully get a couple more paintings in by years end.
'Let There Be Guitar' Exhibition and book next year.

Here's a Phantom Hitch Hikers Poster.

Here's a design I did for a Found Sound T Shirt.

And the LAST of the 'Let There Be Guitar' Series...The King of Surf! Dick Dale.

Rough.

Detail.

the whole thang.

Hopefully post some more stuff next week. workin' on a skateboardin' series. might as well post a bunch of that.
til then.

been a while hey? here's some cover art and stuff....

Hey,

Been quite a bit since I posted last...Last post I said I'd get it back to doin' somethin' on here every week...Damn. Got a hella lotta work done since too. Bummer is I ain't got a decent size scanner & the photos I'd take of my work and posted kinda sucked & didn't do real justice to the paintings...ah well. I'll be getting a bunch of stuff scanned in the next week. Here's some stuff I managed to scan on our A4 scanner.

Some roughs for the new Michael Plater single.

and the selected work.

And the finished painting...

Here's some more Happy Lonesome conceptual stuff I'm still working on. Record out next year? Maybe...Hopefully!!!! Sorry, didn't scan that great....

Also, been working on some cover art for a book. The series of paintings (Let There Be Guitar-remember?) I started over 20 odd months ago is an ongoing thing. I've decided to make a book of this body of work. The exhibition is still in the works, though probably won't take place this year as planned. 2016 looks the goods. I think I still have one more painting left. A few weeks ago I was listening to a bunch of surf/hotrod guitar stuff from the late 50s/early 60s. There is a gaping hole in that body of work I've done without a Hank B. Marvin, a Dick Dale, a Link Wray or a Duane Eddy in there somewhere...

Book Cover.

 and some gee-tars, name em all win a prize...

Album Covers

Hey,

Sorry I ain't posted for a bit. Been busy paintin' and stuff....

Been workin' on concept album art for my band the Happy Lonesome. (also some other paintings I'll post next week!!) The character was developed a couple of years ago for a band poster.

Here's they is. Not great photos though, sorry...You get the picture.

Here's a 4 album covers I really dig. Bit of a mix!

    Music from the Big Pink - The Band by Bob Dylan

    Junk Yard - the Birthday Party by Big Daddy Ed Roth & Dave Christensen

    Without a Sound - Dinosaur Jr by Neil Blender

   Goo - Sonic Youth by Raymond Pettibon

Here's a couple o mine.

Magic Dirt 1993

Freak Wave 2014

Until when.