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Arty Thursdays

| Chris

Why are art openings always on Thursdays??

The 80s-90s Comic/Cartoon/Video Game themed gallery Hyper Reality Dimension XX went off without a hitch. Good vibes, great numbers, great art. Much thanks to Jono Verzosa for curating and organizing the whole event. It was great meeting all of the artists and hearing from people that they legitimately liked looking at all of the art.

Sydney’s a small place and it was great to finally put a physical face behind stuff i’d seen online. So please check out the works of talented dudes: Gerald Leung, Sam Hoh, Jin Hien Lau, BafCat, OX and Bryn Desmond-Jones to name a few.

Be sure to check out the gallery at aMBUSH before it ends, or the online catalogue when it comes out. Here are some blurry and overall poor photos I took from the night

Thanks to the usual scumbag crew for coming. Much like the Wu-Tang Clan except one of our names could actually be “Wu” or “Tang”.
Jinman is Raekwon.

Illustration

| Chris

Been busy working on illustration jobs through Babekuhl aswell as other clients.
Switching styles, going out of the comfort zone.

Some large rice paper prints made to be put up at the soon-to-be-opened “ipot restaurant” across the road opposite Meet Fresh in Chinatown. All works were loosely based around the famous Chinese artwork, “across the MingQing”.
So come down, grab a feed and one of those slimy Taiwanese desserts afterwards.
 

Drew the little repeated icons for the cover of Concrete Playground’s guide to Summer….even though it is over, this can still be purchased from the website in digital or hardcover versions.

Some draft logo work for band Apparitions of Null

The newest stuff ive been working on. Illustrations for furniture brand Pacific Green and their upcoming collection/tradeshow/catalogue. The concept behind these were to look almost like explorer sketches with the notion of travel in the 40’s. Stepping away from the brush, it was fun to try some cross hatching and lines I usually wouldnt do. Some exciting stuff coming from this project, most are still work in progress…
finally some personal stuff i’ve been working on. W.I.P…
Thats it for now,
open for freelance illustration work !

Stick Up Kids

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Summer feels like its officially here and with people out and about I thought it was time to drop some stickers again. So with this first batch this is my take on overtly dark, almost-gang badges featuring typical skulls/snakes etc.
Also, in 2012 fish are the new birds. The hulk font was done for the hell of it.
So please feel free to print these out and share the love. More summerish designs to come soon!
As a bonus here is a fishy wallpaper for you all, Happy New Year!

2011

| Chris

A pretty decent year I’d say. Thanks to everyone that came out to any of my gigs/art things through the year, it is fully appreciated. A few days into January, I think its time to start working again and updating this blog on the reg. A few projects are already in the works so watch this space for more updates.

I guess to cap off 2011 i’ll blog a few “bonus” things that happend this year. Think of it as a b-sides of jobs I ceebs’d blogging.

Tagged viv’s hipster couch with a laundry marker. dragon/demon all day everyday

Before the “battle” with the Momorobo crew we had to send over a proof of concept so they had a feel of our style/what to expect. With roughly 20 minutes this is what I came up with.

That same night after seeing me draw live this dude asked If I could sketch something for his daughter Perri. It was pretty flattering and I was down so cheers to you, mysterious drunk man.

A few weeks ago I handpainted these signs to fit an A-frame for The Passage in the cross. I tried my best to get the sets near exactly the same. So if your ever in the cross drop by, peep the signs and grab a cheap feed. I believe babekuhl did the interior murals inside the bar aswell.
2011 Year of the Totem Pole!
To close here are some dumb songs I dug from ’11




Im so Uptown

| Chris

Last Thursday was the RAH opening/exhibition featuring the book and works of the collective and some of the featured artists. Overall a really swell night with our crew repping the only way we know how (refer to photos). Shout outs to the whole of the RAH collective and Qwux for being an overall top dude and doing a great job. Also shouts to the DJ for playing “Pony” by request following with “Bad Boys 4 life”. I never thought Id hear that song out loud past 2002 let alone in an art gallery, I guess dreams do come true….
P.diddy and the bad boy familyProps to Ant for rocking the tiger camo by request. Short to say the beast was unleashed,
“Noa”, My expensive girl

Theres a gang of pictures as thankfully everyone has a DSLr, so as opposed to reposting I will link them all here. For coverage goto the Usual Suspects:
Mr Ree
Mr 400
Mr Rah Collective

As always, Big thanks to everyone for coming/supporting!

Smokin’ Cubanos with Castro in Cabanas

| Chris

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.