Friday, 13 July 2012

Linocuts

Over the last few weeks I've been working on some linocuts, Lino cutting is a techniques I hadn't tried before but had been wanting to for a while, Its been great fun to do and i think I've produce some really nice pieces of work, here are a few photos, My prints are for sale on my etsy site







Wednesday, 13 June 2012

The Mice are out: Pleasance

Last year I made a short animation for the pleasance theatre at Edinburgh festival for a selection for films put together by Theo Davis. This year im doing im working with illustrator Poppy Rand to make a new film specifically for the theatre. The theme is Mice, and its a stop motion animation in a sort of clangers way. here are our first test of the puppets.






Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Monday, 28 May 2012

A Walking Sketchbook

Over Easter I walker from Carlise to the Island of Lindisfarne over a week, This is my sketchbook diary I kept along the way.

01. Train to carlise

02. Views from the train

03. Church within trees

04. Yellow plants

05. Walking ahead

06. Cows

07. Windows

08.Sheep with lamb

09. Green doors

10. Snow on hills

11. Tree

12. Cream Teas

13. Approaching the island

14. Causeway

15. Making the crossing

16. Meeting

17. Castle above

18. Lindisfarne Castle

19. Spire

20. Sun on dunes

21. Spire on horizon

22. Around the fire

23. St. Aiden

Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Rise and Shine: Stills

Here are a few stills from our now finished film, we hope to enter into a selection of film festivals but will be online soon after.






Monday, 14 May 2012

Red or Dead: desert scene tests

these are a couple of tests done for the desert scene





im going to enlarge the sun, make more mountains in the background and show more yellow sand and then i should be getting close to finnishing this scene, just need to add the bike!