The Narwhal Pickler and Pickled Narwhal

A friend a work accidentally called the painting The Pickler instead of Picker. I had previously sort of imagined him picking them like, but soon as she said pickler I immediately thought about him first picking them then placing them into jars to be pickled. 

 Thus..

They are necessarily to be eaten, but maybe just preserved. Maybe he is somesort of conservationist and is saving them from extinction and once pickled, they can be re-released. 

Or maybe narwhal is super tasty. 

None Shall Pass

'None Shall Pass'

The bear & bison - Bearson - are some sort of gate keepers, they should probably be fired. 

Mural @ Southsea Coffee Complete

It has now been 7 weeks since I completed the mural at Southsea Coffee and I have realised I never posted my final day there....

Day 3 : Touch ups and Details = The best part.

Mural @ Southsea Coffee WIP

I have been lucky enough to be included in the revolving artists to work on the art wall at Southsea Coffee. Since opening they have had an artist come in and paint anything of their choice on the wall every 6-8 weeks. Previous to me was Stu Linfield, Midge, and Ami Lowman. All of who did an awesome job. 

I was super stoked to get started. I thought I might be nervous about it but I really just wanted to start and see how it was going to turn out. It was a huge change from working at my little desk at home by myself with only Tom to tell me how things are looking. I'm not new to working large scale but it's been 7 years or so. So that was a little bit concerning but I was pretty confident it would be okay. The techniques are the same just with bigger brushes. 

Time flew by and I left it like this.

Day 2

I'm back again Saturday 7th to finish it off. 

Winter 2013 Russian Owls

And... 1 set of Russian Ravens: