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Jul

Hop for Hope

Hop for Hope is a collaborative art exhibition showcasing 40 larger-than-life fibreglass kangaroos decorated by iconic Australian artists and identities. The kangaroos will be showcased at the Yarra Valley Chocolaterie & Ice Creamery before being auctioned to raise funds for the Alannah and Madeline Foundation– a charity raising funds to project children from violence and bullying. I am honoured to be one of the artists working on this project and I currently am in the midst of preparing my concept for the hands-on painting phase which will take place over the next couple of weeks. Read More

Apr

Alacran bottle decoration contest

Alacran is having a contest to decorate their black matte tequila bottles. My entry was inspired by the Alacran scorpion device, the distinctive black and white bottle and also some very cool marketing Alacran has done in the past, which showed the black bottle “splattering” other objects with black.

Aug

Speaking at the Stanleys

The Australian Cartoonists’ Association will be hosting it’s 28th annual Stanley Awards and conference weekend in Newcastle this year. I’m very excited to announce I have been invited to sit on a panel to discuss working as a designer in the coin industry. The panel event is called Making a Mint – Designing Coins and Stamps and I will have the honor of sitting along side Jason Chatfield ( A cartoonist and comedian who has taken the reins of the Ginger Meggs comics ) and Alexander Stitt ( a pioneering illustrator, writer and animator responsible for such iconic works as the ‘Life. Be in it.’ campaign).Read More

Jun

“Here today…” process

I’ve been busily working on my second elephant painting for the Mali in the City event “Here today…” I’ve finally finished, so I’ve updated this post with the photos I got of the process.Read More

Jun

“Elephantasy” time-lapse

For those of you that have been following my painted elephant sculptures for Mali in the City, I’ve finally pulled together a time-lapse video of the painting process of my first elephant, Elephantasy. I’m booked in to paint my second elephant “Here today...” on the 25th of June.Read More

Apr

Two week Diablo III sculpture challenge

This is the reason for my late posts recently. I’ve given myself two weeks to sculpt my entry for Blizzard Entertainment’s Portrait of a Champion contest so I’m challenging myself to finish it before the deadline on the 29th of April (only six days left!). Read More

Apr

Wildlife in need: Black rhinoceros illustration

Coin Club has released the next coin in their 1oz silver Wildlife in Need series, the Black Rhinoceros. I did this illustration a few months back but the rest of the series was illustrated by the very talented and very lovely Karen Hull. Read More

Mar

Illustration process of the thylacine postcard

Below is an animated process of a portfolio piece I just finished. The illustration will be used for a series of promotional postcards for my illustration business. I wanted to target book publishers so I included the kinds of themes that they might want to see; such as animals, children and Australian themes. Read More

Mar

Four coins of the apocalypse

The coin design and manufacturing process can take several months and it’s rare that I get show any designs before they make it to the shelves. Coin Club Australia , the client for this project, has allowed me to show the concepts for a potential set of coins to mark the much-hyped date of 21/12/2012. Read More

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