Hove

My latest tribute to Ed Ruscha. Done in Freehand with some ‘painting’ in Photoshop.

Embassy Court part 2

My second Embassy Court print is from the other end of the back of the building, by the road into the back yard, looking north-east. I messed around with the perspective of the windows a bit and made the text more maroon. I had a request to make it blue, but that made the whole image look a bit too sombre. That’s it for Embassy Court for now. This will be an A3+ giclee, like the other one.

Arty magazine

If you turn to the last page in the Winter 2009 issue of Arty magazine, you’ll see a feature on Yours Truly as ‘Personal View’. The issue also features my neighbour Angie Meaden Bonnel, who lets me show work at her Dragonfly House.

Embassy Court (finished)

At last, this print has a physical form! With John Dilnot’s help, there is a digital print version, and I’m very pleased with the result. it’s A3+ size and printed in archival inks on Hahnemuhle William Turner 310g/m2 100% rag paper, signed and numbered in an edition of 200. Introductory mates-rates price is £35 unmounted and unframed, until 6 November 2009, thereafter £45. You may have noticed that it now has my trademark con-trail in the sky. Because these are digital prints (giclées), every one is the same and the colours are exactly what I wanted (and there are no inky fingerprints round the edge either).

Embassy Court

Inspired by all those Art Deco programmes currently on BBC4, here’s a Modernist icon: Embassy Court in Brighton, from the back. It was designed by Wells Coates and built between 1934 and 1936. It was recently done up. Wells Coates was also famous for his round bakelite radios designed for EKCO. This virtual artwork was developed in Freehand and exported to Photoshop, where nothing was done to it! But I may well improve it at some point. You may have noticed there is no con-trail on it yet! The text is Gill Sans, which was used for the name over the entrance (in the restoration at least – not sure what it was on the original building). It may well become a linocut or screenprint in the future.

Portslade

As a tribute to Ed Ruscha, currently on show at the Hayward, I’m producing some pieces of virtual artwork (of course, they could always be giclees if there were a demand, but you know my views on those abominations!). This is the first. Is it too sparce? All done in Photoshop.

North Laine map

This is a detail from a pictorial map I drew for the North Laine Traders Association in Brighton, for a brochure. It was drawn in ink, scanned in Photoshop, converted to vectors in Streamline then coloured in using Freehand. It was originally drawn with the North at the top, A3, but swivelled through 90 degrees and reduced to A4 for the final brochure.

Shoreham Airport

This is my most popular screenprint – the edition of 12 are now all sold. The pattern at the bottom is from a frieze inside the terminal. The top part of the control tower is the old 1930s version. The colors are Art Deco. The silkscreens were made from hand-cut Rubylith – no computers were involved in the making of this print. Concorde and the contrail across a deep blue sky are a sort of trademark of mine now.

Seven Sisters (sepia)

This is a pen, ink and wash sepia painting (well, Burnt Sienna, actually) of the photo below.

Seven Sisters (watercolour)

This is a postcard-sized watercolour, made from the photo below.