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.

Done!!

Hey,

After nearly 18 months I feel as though the series/body of work 'LET THERE BE GUITAR' is DONE!! Nearly 40 paintings in total. Now to the business end...damn...Hopefully put this stuff on a wall somewhere before the end of the year.

Here's the final 2 paintings.

Jesse Ed Davis

Clarence White

got some new paintings in the works. show ya some sometime soon. Might do a bit of a retrospective on the this whole body of work too. would love to make a list of all the guitars I've painted: make
and year of release etc.

sidemen

Hey, Sorry ain't been on here for a bit. Been pretty busy.

Here's some paintings though!

Steve Cropper

James Burton

And the rough sketches for the last 2 paintings of the series...Getting close!!!

Jessee Ed Davis

and Clarence White

Started the Jesse Ed Davis painting yesterday, should hopefully have the last 2 paintings done by next week. This mini series is a tribute to those great sidemen with the Telecaster guitars.

Townes & Telecasters

Hey,

Here's some rough sketches for the next couple o paintings.

Steve Cropper

James Burton

And also, as mentioned last time, here's that Townes Tribute post I'd also been a workin' on.

Hopefully next week I'll have the top two paintings done and also the next two sketches. Clarence White and Jesse Ed Davis. Then paint those up, so in around 2 weeks time,  after 16-18 odd months the work that will become an exhibition titled 'Let There Be Guitar' will be finally done!! Then onto the horrible business side-a-things....