I love me some dystopian

My new project's on dystopia, this  is some  early work from letterpress, playing around with  image and type, using evocative words from Brave New World.

The black and red worked worked well for this advert of the pneumatic lara stone. In brave New World 'everyone belongs to everyone else'

Britney looking all doe-eyed and bland artficial soma contentment

Its fun subverting adverts, specially as the models all looked soma-ed up and emotionless most of the time, plus this season 'curvy' and pneumatic is in.

In the book the character Bernard is unusually upset when the woman he likes, Lenina, sees herself as a piece of 'meat' and is happy with it after all her conditioning. Which obvioulsy has undertones in current society and all media with its sex sells/be skinny and perfect messages.

I like the gold of the soma in this one-gives it reverence and religious tones. Plus it could be a repeated wallpaper or something.

These two are from same piece. Love tactile quality of the type in it. The colours are bold and fresh and remind me of the communist propaganda posters of the 50s with their limited palette.

MY MERCURYS IN RETROGRADE

but darling the carrots are boiling,

hehe an altered dior marion coultaird (love her) advert.

I used the  pose and cropped it out of shot so it was more enigmatic. Its a loose painting with ink, on  some type printed 'my mercurys in retrograde' (bloc party) that i did a while ago, looks quite asian n futuristic. I used this image in a context brief-placing it in editorials, stamps etc. wished i used it as front cover for something like 'do androids dream of electric sheep?'.

the smoking one i used for the context project-its not infact up there! look at my photoshop skills pow!!!i have vaguely mastered (for an amauteur) clone tool, magic wand, scaling, warping and layers.a bit :)

altered marc jacobs advert (obsessed with them), since it has a bit of a pervy, voyeur, lolita vibe.was v happy when my friends thought 'is only 15' was legit-says something about advertising nowadays!

this is a terrible photo :s try add better at some point.Daisy ad painted, reli fun to do randomly one night. Its bout A2 but  longer.

donny is smoking!!!!!?a cigarette that you can legally buy in shops!?iam shocked and appalled

i gave this to my friend emma/gemma cos it looks like her but is in fact from a black n white lily allen fashion shoot.I like the lassiez-faire pose, wanna do it again bigger n better
 

i still feel you, you tastes of cigarettes

ODE TO SUMMER

Who doesnt love mary-kate!!!??the skinnier, cooler of the olsen twins with her caffiene gluggling, granny chic, pro-fur, acessories drenched style!!! :D i havent got this mag but want it since i already waste money i dont have on fashion mags. Currently on the list= pop, new vogue and tatler/bazaar-whichever had karen elson on the front!

yay! lopsided eyes!kinda good/kinda shabby. I enjoyed the a1 scale and cropped composition.The colour was really hard to get right hence why its not.
This is a painting by stella vine who i love. Its of lady gaga obviously. After seeing her work i started this exaggerated painting of cheryl cole but havent finished it, note: always finish a painting when ur on a role otherwise u never do!
This is a a5  book of lady gagas telephone video. I did a smaller, more eclectic one first and decided i wanted to do more images from this video. Its spose to be a graphic novella type thing.I think some of the images would work well if i scanned n then coloured certain areas in flat colour on illustrator. Lets see if i get round to finishing it!let alone finsihing it without hatred of the work creeping in!lols

on a side note: aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh summers almost over, cannot wait to see friends, sort out new home n go batti during freshers but scared bout the work n my envietable apathy/resentment of it! Going be sooo depressing as it starts to get all dark n cold too bleh!!

GAGA

Had to split the post-too much megabites or some such like!
These are some of the pages from the  original, wee A7 book of gaga videos. She is very graphic n viually striking so it is easy to choose poses or images that are quite dynamic. I thought the telephone video especially had more material hence why i decided to focus on it.
As always i found applying colour to the strong line quite tricky n came to the conclusion that they looked better  with less or no colour.
This micky mouse outfit is one of my favourites!!!!
Plus the tarantino-esque nurse!!! :)

Ch-ch-ch-ch-cherryBOMB!!!!

The name of this post has nothing to do with it other than i saw  The Runaways last night and the song n dakota fanning n the clothes n kirsten stewart as joan jett rocked!

I've been trying to do a lot of sketching n portraits  this summer. Above is alexa chung from the cover of harpers bazaar which is reasonably successful. Most of the ones i do requiring binning cos they suck...
I love collaging images n fashion rip-outs. I have a whole sketchbook of it now, mostly focusing on juxtaposition n using up space. I might try doing one that is a straight-forward flickbook of genres n influences/references.

yay heartshaped!!it stayed in the heart-shape when i moved it :)

MOUCHE!

Painting of Mouche with one of those horses from the wheels that spin!not a ferris wheel......carousel!!jesus, thats right? Took reference from this fashion ad, cant remember what for-dolce and gabbana i think.

O this is a little small woops! This is some work from project on short book called Love of Seven Dolls, all good clean fun with suicidal girl (mouche) befriending puppets she thinks are real and then  joining the act and being abused and raped by the puppetmaster who she ends up falling in love with and saving :) lol sounds mental but manages to get away with you somehow rooting for the two of them-romance aint dead! Cant remember name of author but should reli read some of his other stuff too!
For my finals i actually did 6 paintings and then randomly did 6 ink illustrations with quotes and hints of red that were more flowing and i of course ended up perferring! ps. finals suck lol This is a scene of Mouche singing along with the puppets in the street at night.
This is the character reynaldo -who is a fox (i hope you can tell) he is all flirty and devious. The quote is 'put out your hand'. The other 4 ink drawings are somewhere in roland levinsky in a plan draw with some of my other work i cant find :s hopes aint binned! o well
Another interpretation of reynaldo (did tonnes). Like the bright red oil pastel.
There was character called Gigi- a bitchy doll with golden ringlets that instantly reminded me of the doll-like Claudia from Interview witha Vampire. I usually need some sort of reference as i bad at coming up with stuff from top of my head-wish i could