Author: Chris

An Offer You Can’t Refuse

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For Babekuhl ive been working on some sweet murals/menus for the redesign and opening of a new Bill & Toni’s in Balmain. They wanted a real handdrawn feel with iconic characters that truly represent “Italian Culture”. So with Pat’s expertise, you know we had to roll with Pavarotti and Tha Don, Sir Brando haha. Given black skirting around the walls, we had to blend the characters into the bordering black, a step by step process here are the initial ink drawings I did.
Once we figured out a rough layout, The four of us rolled to the location with the lines ready to be projected and directly pencil traced…
The Texture of the wall was initially extremely rough to paint onto, but over time and the discovery of random brushes everything went smoothly.
Pat rocked out with some Poscas for the nice fontage
Its crazy how accurate it turned out in the end to the initial A4 sketch.

Speaking of Bill & Toni’s…. every Wednesday in their Surry Hills location they have a specialty “Burger Night” from 6pm to 9pm I think. They make around 40-50 on the night made completely of specialty ingredients with it always selling out. Here are some fiendish examples from previous weeks…
“The Jap” – Wasabi Mayo. Crunchy Onions. Wagyu pattie. Daikon. Teriyaki sauce. Japanese sweet bun.

“Exhibit A” – Dope Mayo. Crispy Onions. Tri-Cheese Filled Beef. Grilled Pickle.
“EL NACHO LIBRE” Burger bun. Avacardo puree. Iceberg lettuce. Mexican spiced beef. Cheese. Dehydrated jalapeno mayo. Cheese suprene doritos. Cheesey mo f-en sauce. Tomato onion Salsa.

So next week, or maybe the week after, Bill & Toni’s is hooking Babekuhl up with their own signature burger. More info as it comes, but be sure to be there! dont sleep on the greasynesssss
http://youtu.be/W7WGmwiZlyA

More Bull

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So Redbull released slightly more legit photos from last weeks festivities, hopefully they present a better scope of the crowd/size. I think these are a mix taken by photographer of the night Ashley Mar and my buddy Josh.
Lastly thanks to all the goonsquad from my end who came out to purely show love and support

So quickly off the top of my head – The Notorious Phyllis, Andrew the Bear, Keno, Borrott, AnT, Viv, Indy, Kabir, Lisa, M Hail Yeezy, Paul, Charis, Evelyn, Ben, Josh, Tim, Grace, Jinman, Michael, Brendan, Dale, Sam and Billy
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Palm Reader

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So went on an Eastwood adventure with Timbo to drop off my finished artworks to qwux for the Rah book release on Thursday. Also got a copy of the book and man does it look sweet. A quick preview, check it….
My Spread & questionnaire bit

your boy Timothys’ quirky character


A re-up of the “anatomy” sketch i did before, to be sold and exhibited on the night. In the business of selling, im currently pricing all of the pieces. So on the night be sure to pick up a copy of the book, they’re going for a solid $30, with a hand numbered copy out of a limited 500. Dont Sleep!

 

Smokin’ Cubanos with Castro in Cabanas

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My redbull round is over !
Thanks to all the peeps that came through to show support/help drink that fridge of redbull!
Especially the uni people i haven’t seen thanks for coming, a proper catch up when im not “working” is needed! Also big thanks goes to Cam for setting up the event and jamming with me, you killed it man.
So there are two more rounds left, please go check it out next Thursday and support the boys. The next Thursday after is the finals where all the competitors return and the “winner” is chosen, so yeah best be there for that especially, it will be b.i.g!

So when we first got there the canvas was way bigger than we thought. It was roughly 1.5m x 1m with a total of 3 hours to cover it all, also seeing the competition from last week Cam and I had a lot to live up to. The piece had to incorporate the theme of “the rocks” somewhere, open to interpretation with no aerosols allowed. Crazy nervs for like the first 10 minutes, the rest we were on autopilot. For my piece I used ink wash, poscas and acrylic for the background. check it out….
( props to all the random mobile phones that helped make this post 🙂 )

So this is the photo that RedBull rolled with for the website, At least the Wu is up in there.

 

Never Not Working

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Been crazy busy. Its funny how I went through a mad “dry” period during Summer holidays when I had plenty of time but not much work. Now, back at “final” sem and oppuruntites for art are coming literally out of nowhere. Let the juggling games begin. August will be a fun? month.

Firstly id like to invite all you guys to come watch me and Cam “Fingaz” Wall paint up live at The Argyle, in the Rocks this Thursday the 11th as part of Red Bull’s “curates Ar(t)gyle” exhibition. Its to be held every Thursday in August with 2 artists drawing against eachother. 3 hour drawing time from 6-9. So come down, have a drink and watch some dope speed art. Would love to see you all there. Props to Cam for putting me on and getting me listed as an artist.

here are some snaps from last week’s draw-off

Some stuff ive been working on for next, next thursdays exhibition. Forgive the quality, crackberry at its finest…
ive drawn birds for most of my friends as gifts, i can draw these with my eyes closed now.

Progress on my Eskimo lady, pretty much done. Will get better quality pics once i get these industrially scanned or DSLR’d (thankfully everyone has one).



gutted we missed out on Wu-Tang this time, and Method-man again…

Good Things

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Week 2 of semester already. Well here it is, poster for the book release

So opening night is at Ambush Gallery, 4a James St Waterloo
August 18, 6pm

Feel free to come along and support, will appreciate it!
for you facebook fiends here is a link to the event

On a random note just spent/wasted a good 2 days watching HBO’s Game Of Thrones. Hardout medieval drama isnt usually my cup of tea but with all the hype, recommendations and advertising behind it I had to check it out. Full of very well developed characters, high budget and goriness every ep with main characters killed off when you least expect it. Think Sopranos mixed with Lord of the Rings. Good good stuff featuring full beards and Sean Bean acting like a gangsta Aragon, definitely check it out.

Dont get me wrong though, still got a full workload & another ‘exciting’ week of major project to come