From September 19th-27th we will be holding the 4th instalment of the Art of Gravity group art show.
This time we are back up to 8 members and as always span a wide range of genres.
There will be papercraft, illustration, t-shirts, photography, jewellery, accessories, bags, sculpture and more.
I will be mainly exhibiting my papercraft this time, as I have so many models now and hope that it will make for an interesting display.
If anyone happens to be in Takamatsu, Japan at this time please come along.
Details can be found on the poster above or by visiting the Gravity homepage.
9月の連休を含む9月18日~27日に「The Art of Gravity展」の第4弾を開催します。
今回は第2弾と同じ8人のメンバーが参加します。
イラスト、ペーパークラフト、Tシャツ、写真、ジュエリー、アクサセリー、バッグ、彫刻など、相変わらず幅広いジャンルをカバーしています。
The Art of Gravity group exhibition finished last Sunday.
We had a pretty good week with roughly the same amount of visitors as last time.
As an artist it is always interesting to see what kind of things catch people’s attention.
This time I had more detailed and perhaps more horror themed pieces on display, but as always it was the “cuter”, simpler characters (like my “Meat Bear“) that seemed to be more popular. Hardly a surprise I suppose, and the reason why I always try to produce a range of work as I know that skulls are not to everyone’s liking. It was also the first time that I had displayed my papercraft, which gave people something a little different to look at.
I am currently playing with some ideas for different kinds of exhibitions, but if possible I would like to keep the Gravity project going and have at least one group show a year.
Thanks to all the members and also to our visitors of course.
Thanks to my friend Ryan August’s site I Want Your Skull, I have recently been introduced to many great new artists and websites.
One of my favourite artists of late is John Baizley. Not only is John an amazing artist but he also fronts the metal band Baroness from Savannah, Georgia. He designs many of the jackets for his band’s CDs and also creates artwork for great bands such as Kylesa.
Many of his designs are available in t-shirt form and I recently purchased two of them (see above) at a very reasonable price from the excellent Shirt Killer.
See John and his band in action in the clip below.
Here is my latest T-Shirt design featuring my character “Meat Bear”.
I have sketched a similar looking character many times in the past and decided to bring him back.
This was my first attempt at printing with more than one colour. Though it looks simple, lining up the heart was quite a challenge, so I will have to think carefully before trying any more complex prints.
The shirt is available on white or grey and there is a variety of heart colours.
See the T-shirt page for more details.
I have finally completed my first batch of T-shirts and they are officially now on sale.
I discovered that screen printing is not as easy as it appears, but am pretty pleased with the result and learnt a lot through the experience.
For my first release I went with a simple black and white design called “Bad Eggs”.
These are characters that I have had flouting around in my head for some time now.
The shirts are 100% heavy-weight cotton and come in a screen printed envelope with an exclusive full colour postcard.
They are available in most sizes and come in black on white or white or black.
そうそう、Graph x Horrorwood Tシャツ、ネットでも発売中! 詳しくはこちらをクリック下さい。日本語のページは現在作成中です・・・すみません。
During Golden Week we were visited by Naoko’s cousin, her husband and their lovely baby boy. Here are some pictures of Mum and Dad sporting 2 of our shirts and looking very good in them if I do say so myself. Shame we don’t have any baby sizes to complete the picture…
This week Mrs. Matsuoka found our first T-shirt wholesale customer in the form of� Toppe Sogawa. Toppe runs a children’s boutique clothing store called Peek a Boo Yah in New York gallery in Kitahama (Takamatsu).
Though we had not really thought that much about the kids’ market, after having a look around Toppe’s store we were struck by the variety and quality of the children’s clothing he had selected. His policy is to stock products from abroad that have not yet made it to Japan or unique items made by local designers.
Peek a Boo Yah focuses on high quality, natural materials and small runs, rather than the mass produced products that are readily available these days. Apparently he really took a liking to our shirts as they fitted all the above criteria.
The store itself is housed in a converted warehouse next to the one where we held our Gravity art show back in March. It is a wonderful little area and the store itself is exactly the kind of place we were looking for to display our products.
Hopefully this will lead to a long and fruitful relationship. I have already begun thinking about some designs aimed at children and suitable for clothing that size.
The highlight of the day came when a grandfather bought his grandson one of my Skullboy shirts while we were in the shop. It is good to know that some kid will now be strutting around town wearing one of my horrific shirts.
I spent the day yesterday at the Graph Design office putting the finishing touches to our T-shirts. All the designs had arrived and we set about packaging the products. Mr Matsuoka had also ordered some custom-made Horrorwood labels and he spent most of the day sweating behind the sewing machine attaching them. The labels added a final professional touch to the shirts, and again though I do say so myself the finished products look pretty damn good.
I would like to add a special thanks to the Matsuokas’ daughter Shouko who was roped into working in our sweatshop though she was supposed to be on holiday. Without her help we wouldn’t have been able to finish everything yesterday.
The shirts are now ready to roll. I will be posting final images and order details in the near future. In the meantime any order enquiries should be made directly to Graph Design at info@graphdesign.jp.