The Playaz Ball makes a comeback this month with ‘A pimp odyssey part 2.’ Another night of Funk  Soul & hip hop at the Shack in Newquay. Below is the artwork for the two sided flyer. I have also included a couple of shots that were never used in the final design. The 45 record was found in a charity shop, and really makes the front cover I think. Also take a closer look at the ring on the finger…A drum machine ring. Proper pimpin!

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I have been busy with a few digital painting commissions of late. Both have followed a similar criteria in that they should have a contemporary vintage feel and use supplied photographs as reference. Lots of texture and desaturated goodness then! The print that I had made up for the ‘Faded Rosed’ image was nothing short of stunning once mounted in a white frame.

Using  Giclee printing on Hahnemuhle German Etching paper (heavyweight, almost like watercolor paper) the people at The PrintSpace in London did a fantastic job. The print actually looked painted on and stained with ink. I have used a few printers in the past and nothing has ever been as close to a perfect reproduction like these guys did. Highly recommended if your after top quality prints.. visit their site here…http://www.theprintspace.co.uk/

Anyone interested in having a personalized digital painting incorporating family and personal photographs should contact me at:  maclarensteph@gmail.com  I look forward to hearing your ideas and maybe working on something for you.

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The graphics were to be used in the video for the track ‘Genre Girls’ an electro pop track with hip hop undertones. Directed by Ryan Laccohee, the live footage was shot against a green screen. Later this footage was superimposed against a selection of my backgrounds. Some of the artwork supplied was actually animated to great effect..v strange seeing my artwork come alive!

A great job done by all concerned.

You can view the full video here..enjoy!!

Click on thumbnails for a selection of images made for the Genre Girls video.

 

For more information on Ashwin Music visit his site here..http://www.ashwinmusic.co.uk/

2 Abstract monochrome pattern mash ups utilising some old black ink outline work I did in the 90’s. Loving the lack of color for these images.

 

It is very seldom that I use vectors in my work but I enjoyed doing this freestyle piece immensely. I like the humanising finish the texture overlay I used gives it.

 

The first of a new slew of work to go in ‘The Lab’ section of galleries. This one was done a few months ago and incorporates a hand drawn character in pencil with black ink outline pattern work for the wave ornamentation and background.

 

And what an excellent job the book people have done on it. A proper coffee table book no less. The picture and color quality on the 300gsm Fuji Album Lustre paper is the bomb. I also had lay flat binding for showing double page spreads to best effect..stunning!

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Weighing in at 82 pages long (it was a job deciding what images to put in and what to leave out!) ‘A back section looming’ is a collection of my favorite pictures taken while on a surf trip to Morocco.

There is also a handful of illustrations inspired by the trip that are full double page spreads. I included also a couple of small features based on our experiences at Anchor Point in Taghazout. They are made up of ‘The Anchor Dogs’..’Storm clouds they gather’ and ‘Strange scrawls on the walls of Taghazout which I have already published in an earlier post here.

The majority of the photography was taken at various surf breaks around the legendary Anchor Point. Mysteries, Hash Point, Tamri and Panoramas are all featured in one way or another, either as pure wave shots or involving surfers or surf watchers. I look back at the pictures now and remember that everyday was different to the next as regards to wave and water color (and most times wave size.) The images in the book are a mixture of pin sharp and grainy , saturated and desaturated..lots of flavors, a bit like the waves then.

I guess the book is really a celebration of the power and beauty of waves, your not going to find any cliche holiday pictures of the boys ‘having it’ large. A small explanation can be found on page one for the title of the book, rather than me repeat it here. The images that make up the book gallery are a mixture of original images and scans from the book itself (a long story and something you should take up with one of my flash memory cards.) So I apologize now for any poor image  & color quality. On the whole the scans are not too bad but nothing like the quality of the originals or the book reproduction.

If you click on the first Thumbnail (top left) after these 3 pictures it will take you to page one. To navigate forward or back through the pages just move your cursor to either the middle far left or right of the image. click the arrow..easy.. Enjoy!

 

A couple of mixed media illustrations partly inspired by my trip to Morocco. They can also be found in ‘The Lab’ section along with other weird and wonderful images.

This site should soon be overrun with wave pictures once I publish the images from my Moroccan trip book “A back section looming”…keep an eye out for that..its coming very shortly!

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You can view pictures of the night here..facebook

DVD’s looking good!!!