Screen Printing Monster Portraits

I have been screen printing  my monster portraits for Made Up Pop Up Shop, up in London town, which they requested.

Derrys Cross Exhibition

Without me knowing, The Plymouth College of Art put on a small exhibition of the illustration course in the old Derrys building and my work was chosen to be featured. 

New Designers 2012

For New Designers, I did the same set up as the Plymouth College of Art Summer Show. 

I was also featured in the Design Week blog, which is pretty damn amazing.  

Plymouth College of Art Summer Show 2012

For The Plymouth College of Art Summer Show 2012, I wanted to make my space into a sort of set with the use of vinyl stickers to make it look like sedimentary rock like the sort of wall the Ghost Explorer would have in his home at the bottom of the sea. I choose to exhibit The Ghost Explorer And The Great Underwater Mountain Range because I thought this image illustrated the whole project the best. 

Laura Jayne Weeks, Isaac Lenkiewicz, Emily Watkins, and me. 

(Photo taken by Kelly Walton)

The Ghost Explorer - Page Eighteen (Deleted Scene)

In this extra scene of The Ghost Explorer, our newly reunited couple are about to go on another spectral adventure together.

The Ghost Explorer - Page Seventeen

In this concluding illustration of The Ghost Explorer, our hero and heroine finally come together as ghosts to live happily ever after.

The Ghost Explorer - Page Sixteen

In this self sacrificing part of The Ghost Explorer, the maiden has realised what she needs to do in order to be with the one she loves and throws herself off the cliff she once sat upon.

The Ghost Explorer - Page Fifteen

Little does the Ghost Explorer know, in this page of his love story, that the beautiful mortal maiden misses and is in love with him, spending her days sitting on the cliff looking out to sea, just incase he returns like he once did. 

The Ghost Explorer And His Sad Adventures

The Ghost Explorer can't stop thinking about the beautiful maiden and so his explorations become more and more sad.

The Ghost Explorer - Page Twelve

The sadness continues for The Ghost Explorer, he sits at the bottom of the sea just wishing her could be with the beautiful maiden.

The Ghost Explorer - Page Eleven

This is a sad part of The Ghost Explorer, where he realises that he can't be with the beautiful maiden for he is a spectre and she is mortal and he'd be asking too much for them to be together, so he leaves her on the shore and returns to the depths.

The Ghost Explorer - Page Ten

This is the part of The Ghost Explorer where our hero realises the reality of what he is doing, slowly drowning the mortal maiden, she's slowly turning into a ghost herself.

The Ghost Explorer - Page Nine

This is the next excerpt from the Ghost Explorer showing the explorer getting carried away by love and taking the maiden down to his deep sea home.

The Ghost Explorer - Page Eight

This is the iconic image from The Ghost Explorer, where he sees a beautiful maiden on the shore and instantly falls in love with her. The image is so iconic that I made it the front cover of the book.

The Ghost Explorer - Page Seven

This is the second part of The Ghost Explorer beginning with him exploring near the shore.

The Ghost Explorer - Page Six

The next part of The Ghost Explorer shows him relaxing in his home at the bottom of the sea.

The Ghost Explorer Walks On Water

This is the final part of a quadruple of illustrations that show some of the explorations of the Ghost Explorer, this one is a parody/pastiche of Jesus walking on water.

The Ghost Explorer And The Chimera The Sea Monster

Another part of a quadruple of images that show some of the explorations of the Ghost Explorer, this one shows the Ghost Explorer taking on the largest sea monster known to date the nautical Chimera, part lion, part serpent and part goat.

The Ghost Explorer And The Titan Cancinos

This is another part of a quadruple of illustrations that show some of the explorations of the Ghost Explorer, this one shows our protagonist the Ghost Explorer journeying to the centre on the world to see the giant crab Cancinos.

The Ghost Explorer And The Great Underwater Mountain Range

Tomorrow is the opening night of the Plymouth College of Art Summer Show, so here's one of the pieces I'll be exhibiting. This is part of a quadruple of images that show some of the explorations of the Ghost Explorer, this one being my favourite, the Ghost Explorer and the Great Underwater Mountain Range.

The Ghost Explorer - Page Three

It's exactly one week until the Plymouth College of Art Summer Show, so this is the next instalment The Ghost Explorer. In this page the ghost explorer becomes the ghost explorer, taking on his ghostly glow.

The Ghost Explorer - Page Two

This is the next page of The Ghost Explorer. In this page the mortal man who becomes the explorer has just fallen into the sea.

The Ghost Explorer - Page One

This is the first page of my new nautical tail 'The Ghost Explorer' which will be shown in The Plymouth College of Art Summer Show and New Designers 2012. This page is simply entitled 'The Tempest'.

The Isaacs Trio

This illustration was made for a book I made for my dissertation which tells the tale of Edward Magpie and the crew of his ship, The Stultifera Navis. These three animal are the pets of three future seeing giantesses known as the Isaacs Sisters.

See if you can spot the Navis on each animal.

Under Water Fight

This is another illustration from Palincest, this image shows the aphotic zone of the sea and a bit of fishy fisty cuffs is just about to commence between a squid and a sperm whale with an angler fish providing the spot light and a shoal of hatchetfish come to spectate. 

This illustration also has a sister, Laura Jayne Weeks, who I collaborated on the project with, made an illustration which joins on the right hand side which also includes sperm whales and angler fish. 

A Collection of Bugs

Another piece from The Palincest Mine. 

Because the project was about different layers of thing I wanted to do an illustration of a few members of the bug kingdom. 

Also once I'd done the all illustrations I wanted to have little labels under each bug with their latin names on and the wee dust mite ended up having the longest name which was an added humour bonus. 

The little blighter.

The Cave of Wonders

Another Palincest diamond in the rough.

For ages I wanted to do an illustration of a friendly vampire bat because I always thought they've got a bad rep thanks to Bram Stoker and the like. For this image I was thinking about the fact it would be a  screen printed illustration, so I made the main smiling bat's colour quite flat and the background hanging bats just silhouettes. 

Aura Bearealis

Another shining light in the Palincest heavens. 

For the Palincest project I wanted to have a selection of different animal habitats and because I was doing this illustration through the festive period and enjoying the awesome BBC's Frozen planet (narrated by David Attenborough aka God) I wanted to do something with polar bears/cold and I thought what if the Inuits believed that the aura borealis came from a great bear, lighting up the sky with it's magic. 

A Totem of Masks

Another brick in the Palincest wall. 

For the Palincest I wanted to experiment with different styles and illustrate animals in different ways. For my mind work quite mathematically I wanted to make each animal of the Totem Pole quite symmetrical. 

The animals are (from left to right, up to down): Eagle, Elephant, Monkey, Gorilla, Piranha, Walrus, Bear, Penguin, Killer Whale, Lion, Shark and Dear. 

The Wolf and the Jumpered Mountains (Part 1)

Welcome to the Palincest world weary traveler, you've made it over the jumpered mountains and listened to the howl of the wolf, but there will be more slights to be seen soon.

Also if you can't find everything you desire here, go to Laura Jayne Weeks for more Palincest illustrations.

Grizzly Bear with Salmon

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