I'm late, I'm late for a very important date.

So it's been a mad few months. House sitting, Kaiapoi Art Expo, staying with a broken friend, more house sitting, a bunch of markets. Barely time to think, let alone get a blog post together.

When I Go
Acrylic, 2012

Nine works went to Kaiapoi Art Expo seven sold, I called it successful. And then I got commission work from it as well. Bonus. Not bad for things I only pulled together in the two weeks before it was on. Can you tell I am highly organised?!

If
Pencil, 2012

Market life has started again with four down and almost every weekend and a bunch of weekdays booked up from now until February. Madness! Being a reclusive artist was much less work.... If you're in Canterbury, Nelson or Dunedin (New Zealand) check out the market page because I'm coming to you!

I'm sure last time I posted I said interesting things were being plotted. I had planned to get a calendar sorted for 2013 but have you ever found out what it costs to get them printed in full colour?! Insanely expensive. So it won't be happening this year, I might look into doing pre order for 2014 and get folks to pay up front so I can afford to get it done. Would anyone be keen for Sophie (the girl in black) and friends calendar?

I did manage to find time to paint a picture for a soon to be a published author friend and turn it into a banner for her blog. So head over to Mutterings from the oubliette and check it out full size.

I almost forgot! My oddball hats made it onto the national news!! Ok so it was part of a clip about LUXCity that is a festival bringing life back to the Christchurch CBD but still they made it on there, and even better I wasn't in the shot! Not sure if it can be viewed from other countries but this is the link to it, LUXCity.

Right I really should get onto making a bazillion hats, this whole selling things is great but then I actually have to make more...

Otautahi Goblin Riot

One year and one day ago Christchurch (Maori name Otautahi), New Zealand was hit with its second major earthquake in six months. The first being a 7.1 on September 4^th 2010. In Sept we were lucky. In Feb we were not. Tuesday 22^nd Feb at 1.51pm a 6.3 hit closer to the CBD, 185 people were killed, thousands injured, and much of Chch was destroyed.



Moti



A week or so after the quake I drew a goblin who was stealing a friend's motivation to do anything and it grew from there. Moti wasn’t evil enough so I drew another then they just kept coming. I was dropping them on facebook and Anita started putting up little blurbs about them. Next thing you know we’re making a book. A month later it’s basically abandoned!! I was busy drawing other things and Anita was writing a novel!

But it wasn’t going to die with friends and family continuing to pester us about it. So two months ago it was all on. I’d like to say it’s all finished but the last 10 pages still need to be written then drawn! So I should probably stop blogging and draw.

Here is the first page. For keeping updated with the rest ‘Like’ us on facebook.