Art giveaway! As in, free art by me. And Clay Disarray.

A little while ago I was lucky enough to win a giveaway by the exemplary Lizzie Campbell (aka Clay Disarray) who sent me some very, very lovely greetings cards. Because of a balls-up with postage, I actually got two lots, and so now have a fair few of Lizzie's greetings cards.

And I thought it would be nice to share the love a little bit. So what I'm doing is this: email me at gareth@grthink.com if you'd like a free greetings card by Lizzie which contains an original likely-to-never-be-reproduced drawing of something (dunno what yet) by me. You'll need to include a postal address, obviously.

You should know what my drawings look like -- if not, scroll up and down here for a little while or go somewhere like my Deviantart pages.

Um, that's it.

Go.

ThePopUpBarberShop.com at V Festival

This past weekend I was asked my Jordanna from The Pop Up Barber Shop to paint their web address onto one of the walls of the pop-up barber shop that they run in the VIP area of V Festival.

Doing this type of thing is entirely out of my comfort zone, being more at home with my face pressed up against a piece of paper and scratching away with ink, but I'm really proud of how it looked when I'd finished. It started off a bit shaky, to be honest, but once I'd realised I could just hold the paintbrush like a pen I felt much more comfortable. Here's some photos...

After making the template, the paper I'd used to rest the tracing paper on had the text sketched on, albeit all on top itself ad backwards. Spent 10mins with an ink brush picking bits out, and was therefore able to convince myself I could pull the same trick, on a wall, with paint.

The tracing-paper template (2m across) taped up on the wall.

Me. In action. (Photo nicked from https://www.facebook.com/PopUpBarberShop)

Me, still in action, reflected in a mirror, probably accidentally. (Photo from  https://www.facebook.com/PopUpBarberShop)

Here's what it looked like when I'd finished, with some Instagram filters chucked on.

Again, the finished article, ready for the next day.

The barber shop in full swing on Saturday morning. (photo again courtesy of  https://www.facebook.com/PopUpBarberShop)

Photo of the banner for the Popup Barber Shop, which features a drawing of a dog I did a few years ago (Photo nabbed off Facebook from some chap called Patrick Forster, who I don't know)