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Wow, it's May already! Ahhh it's getting cooler and the Autumn leaves are out in full colour. It's been a while since I've been on here to update everyone on what I've been upto.

I recently started a tattooing apprenticeship in an awesome modern studio with a great bunch of people, and have been working on jobs here and there such as business card designs, custom tattoo designs and tshirt designs for the tattoo studio. I'm already upto my 20th tattoo on clients (no I didn't start practicing on pig-skin - actually it was a couple mangoes and a pear haha) and it's going really well.

I'll start uploading pics of all this over the next couple of weeks. Also on my drawing desk is the start of the designs for next years Schutzenfest 2012, which I'll be doing the designs for the merchandise and all the posters/fliers etc. Should be a lot of fun again!

WWII Nose Art

I was recently up in Darwin N.T. and visited the WWII Air Museum. Along with the gigantic B-52 bomber, the hanger full of awesome historic machines of the air got me inspired to create some artwork under the theme.

This is the first off the rack of a few pieces that will eventually be mosaic-ed into one large piece! Done in pen & Prismacolor pencils, Photoshop background.

If you're interested in buying this one as a large canvas print/5mm MDF board-mounted print, contact me at barra011@hotmail.com

Fringe 2011 - Hot Out The Oven exhibit

This year for the Fringe Festival, myself and three other awesome illustrators - Leigh Harder, Chloe McGregor and Gemma Buratto - are exhibiting over two locations in Adelaide. The first location is the Metropolitan Hotel, 46 Grote St. from the 15th Feb - 13th March. The second being at the Dog & Duck, 125 Hindley St. from the 18th Feb - 12th March.

Opening night will be on the 2nd March from 7pm at the Dog & Duck and established illustrator and university lecturer, Geert Van Keulen, will be taking the opening speech.

At the Dog & Duck I'll have four pieces wrapped on large canvases, and there will be 3 pieces mounted on board at the Metro. See above images for cropped previews...

Come and check it out/buy some awesome artwork for that blank wall of yours! Get in touch with me if you are interested in a custom piece of art on large canvas/framed/mounted on 5mm mdf board.

Snow Scarf

A pretty fast illustration that is linked to a personal graphic novel story I'm creating. Main lines sketched by hand then put into photoshop for colour.

Pinup Artwork

I've always been a massive fan of that retro style pinup, and decided to mix it with tattoo art and see what I'd come up with. This is something I'm going to follow up and improve on, with more girls as time goes on, so watch this space!

Hero Ping

I've just been working on giving the company Hero Ping a new look by creating two super hero characters to be the face of the company. I then put these characters into a new website banner and 3 icon images for 'News', 'F.A.Q.', and another more general one.

As time goes, these heroes will turn into long term characters that represent the company, hopefully with a comic-style storyline that'll give them some background!

Check out the website at http://www.heroping.com/

Illustration Exhibit

Hi all, come and check out some great talent, including myself... haha. Industry folks and anyone from the public looking for some artistic direction in their upcoming campaign or small illustrated job welcome!

If you can't make it on the night, it's open business hours until the 4th of November. Or check out the website http://www.adelaideillustrators.com.au/

Movember! continued

The German Club decided to go for a different look in the end, so I designed this revamped version without an image.

Get your Mo on! Visit http://au.movember.com/register/

Movember!

Movember is on its way, and the German Club has asked me to do their poster. Come in and enjoy the festivities, and donate a couple bucks to help support BeyondBlue and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia.

Register your Mo-growth for the month at http://au.movember.com/register/

Basketball Jersey

My basketball team, the Stealth Katz, was sick of wearing white bonds singlets with the numbers scribbled on in permanent markers, so we thought it was time to splash out on uniforms and get an image to suite the name. Here's what I came up with, with some creative direction from the lads.

SCHÜTZENFEST 2011 !

Here's some of what I've been working on for the coming German Schutzenfest festival, which is held in Adelaide annually. All designs are still drafts, showing: Banner, Poster, fold-up Program (outside and inside) and proposed t-shirt designs.

Earth Friendly

Showing a bit of process and the final of a poster design aimed at the everyday person to think about what relatively simple changes they can make to help clean up our mess. Sketch & Photoshop.

Patient Geisha

A fairly quick rendering of a drawing I did a while back of two Geishas. I chose the sepia style overlay to give the sense of the history involved in this part of Japanese culture. Sketch & Photoshop.

Fuji Rain Dance

My motivation behind this piece of art was to use the basic shapes in the layout of Hokusai's most famous Ukiyo-e print, The Great Wave of Kanagawa (see top image) with Mt. Fuji in the background. Sketch & Photoshop.

84 x 120cm