Suger Skulls and what not.....

Today Ive had a well deserved day off work and I've sat down and penned up some stuff to be inked. Ive started thinking about sell-able bits for Brixton Urban Art Festival next year. There is some amazing stuff there, last year I bought work by Dan Hillier (www.danhillier.com) i love the dark drawings and patterned backgrounds. He does original ink drawing kinda like what I do but much better lol.

So today I penned 3 drawings onto mount board (5.5 x 7.5 inch ish) to ink another day....

Ive been thinking a lot bout day of the dead and sugar skulls of recent, I want to track down some day of the dead events in the future in galleries etc. I was on searching for things earlier and found www.squidgyart.com.

This is a lady who is looking to raise money for charity next year by sending skulls out to artists to paint and sell on Ebay to raise money for hospices. I think Its an ace idea and I definitely would love to do one. Also check out her website anyway. Her paintings are very VERY good.

Quick update

Really quick one, Ive been in Leicester for the past few days and I had a blast. Bin in touch with a few old studio buddies from the uni days and its kinda got me thinking again.

Spoke 2 Jack about a digital collaboration in the pipe line.... and also E.P covers for The Brazilians.

Anywho before I fall asleep I have sorted out my etsy.com shop again. So take a look.

www.misshilton.etsy.com

More pikkies soon I promise :S xx

Poorly sick today

Poorly today, didn't sleep last night so feeling rubbish. Found some pieces lying around to add to my online collection, including Geoff and Ted!

Oh and also

My friends band have one of my paintings as their album cover!!!

Check out their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/braziliansmusic

and their album can be bought on Itunes with my cover :D.

xx

Sketch book

Today as a start since I had some spare time i thought Id post some pen outlines from my sketchbook. These are all watermarked as I don't want them stolen (paranoid I know) bit of extra effort but let me know what you think.

I have two basic skull outlines I use, I have called them Geoff and Ted. I started a painting ages ago of the Hula skeleton that only has then background at the moment. At this point a confession, I'm not very good with colour.... sometimes I colour my sketches in and it just looks wrong. I have tried to colour the flower skull page using colour theme to try and simplify it but it didn't work. I will hopefully post some sketches and finished small bits today, later on.

The Koi is something I try and keep practising, I found a very useful tutorial on Ink Trials Tattoo Forums (http://forum.ink-trails.com/Koi-Tutorial-t6873.html&hl=koi+tutorial).

Just another quick one before bed.

Thought Id quickly post some pikkies of recent work in progress. I am planning on water marking finished items but not items in a development stage. Here are a couple of pen drawings and some ink skulls from things Ive started in my sketchbook.

The tattoo type sketches are for my own amusement really. When I graduated University (DMU, Leicester) last year in Fine Art I was unemployed for about 5 months and I started looking at tattoo drawing tutorials etc online. I am a fan of flash and tattoos generally so these are some that I have penned out but yet to be inked, I always get nervous at this point that I might make a mess of it so generally I scan the outline into my computer to re-produce if necessary.

The idea behind the ink skulls is the ace of clubs. I want to do some digital work producing all the aces in a pack of cards in an ink drawn fashion but printed on nice paper and produced in a set of 4. This was my first provisional sketch and I have also looked at fonts.

I have lots of other works in progress, swallow skeletons, skulls and Hawaii day of the deads so I will post again when I am more prepared lol. I only decided today I would start a blog and these are just images I had to hand.

I'm getting tattooed tomorrow. Cant wait :D

Hello cruel world

Today is my first blogging day YAY!!! I have decided after being inspired by other peoples talents and work on the Internet and a difficulty in keeping in contact with people I have previously worked around in a studio at university etc, that this would be a good tool for feedback on my work and to also keep everybody informed of what I'm up 2 generally. I will try and keep this art and image based, but I do apologise if you get snippets of my general existence as well. I don't do as much as I would like due to the obvious time based restriction. I am also hoping this will motivate me to do more!

We shall see................... Watch this space.