Rob Catterall Illustration

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

I was starting work on redesigning the thali cafe's logo but then received amendments to the brief so this piece has been abandoned half way, but might as well not leave it out of here all the same

Saturday, 18 February 2012

Julia Sarda

Have been looking at illustrator Julia Sarda's beautiful sense of light is her work

Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Have a print hanging in the illustration show 'In the Making . . .' which is being held at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol. It runs from 6th Feb - 3rd March, with a closing party on 23rd Feb so come along!

In the Making . . .

Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Been busy in the print rooms these few days . . . .

a quick 3 colour lino

. . . . and some more work into the Puffin design

Thursday, 2 February 2012

SG Boxsius (1878 - 1941)

Looking at British printmaker S.G. Boxius has made me want to make more lino cuts, somre amazing use of subtle tones changed my thoughts about linocut printing altogether!

http://haji-b.blogspot.com/2010/11/sg-boxsius-british-1878-1941.html

have a look!

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

DJ Shadow

Final option . . .

Voting opens on the 20th Jan 2012, everyone counts!

Vote Here!!!

Monday, 16 January 2012

sam wolfe connelly

Have recently seen Same Wolfe Connelly's work, it's got such an amazing sense of atmosphere and holds a lot of drama, there's a lot to learn from.

Shadow

Components of my 7" vinyl sleeve design for DJ Shadow's new release 'Come on Riding (through the cosmos)'. I've chosen this character as a young astronaut because of Shadow's playfulness as a producer, and travelling on a holiday through the unknown, through the cosmos.

A few ideas for entry for Puffin's competition to redesign the classic Grimm's Fairy Tales, by Jacob & Wilham Grimm, see how it plays out . . .

all available as original woodblock prints

Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Retro Sounds

Designed a poster for my course's fundraising night. It's being helped out by the Bristol night Retrobait http://www.facebook.com/events/270862602967944/
Should be a good night of jigging around ahy

Blood Chamber and other stories

Sent in entries for this years Folio book competition to illustrate Angela Carters 'The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories'. Illustrating one scene from three stories within the book, as well as a book jacket.

Book Jacket

'The Bloody Chamber'

'The Company of Wolves'

'Puss-in-Boots'

Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Leaving Autumn

This is a small personal project based on autumn. It's ended with 3 prints on each piece, each image being 6"x7.5" hand: drawn, etched and printed. The leaf skeleton prints each play with the use of autumn colours as well. Out of around 20 variations I think I might have found my favourite one so there may be some more consistent editions out after Christmas.

Friday, 16 December 2011

Fine Foods

Just completed and sent in a brief sent out by the The Trecherman's Guide for their 2012 cover design. To design a cover image to go around their text, and to encapsulate the best foods in the South-West. Although I did stray from the region a little bit . . . .

Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Food is Fun!

I've just entered Anorak Magazine's competition 'Food is Fun!'. This involves creating the most tastey lunch box design you can imagine. Mine came from the my well matured selection of cheese jokes.

'Nacho Cheese'

Saturday, 12 November 2011

The Matchbox Art Show

A very small but very exciting show going on for a few weekends down in Brighton, Hove.

It's run by Enter the Clutter at the Polish and Pin Gallery.

The The Matchbox Art Show consists of 50 artists each creating matchbox sized artworks

showing from the 26-27th Nov and 3-4th Dec

Well worth a look!

My piece entered is the net designs for my Matchbox Circus

as well as a one off special sized ring leader

Monday, 7 November 2011

Olympics

Recently took part in a commission for Kaplan Law Firm, to produce several images along side other people for their 2012 Olympic Calendar.

Here are the final Images:

"Get Involved"

"Wheels of Fire"

As well as my own anti-Olympic piece, this wasn't picked . . . .

Sunday, 30 October 2011

I recently came across american illustrator/artist Sterling Hundley and am excited to share him with you all. His use of tone and composition is something that I greatly admire and is something I hope to see within my own work at some point in the future. I strongly suggest having your own look.

http://sterlinghundley.tumblr.com/

http://www.sterlinghundley.com/

Monday, 24 October 2011

The Bloody Chamber

I have recently started work on this years Folio Society competition for which I'm illustrating three stories from Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber'. This is several classic stories/tales revisited with a sinister twist. The competition is based on illustrations for the stories 'the bloody chamber', 'puss in boots' and 'the company of wolves'.

. . . here's a few starting points and will see where these go.