Alex Dimond

De-cartoonifying

2011-11-22T17:39:00.002Z

I've been trying to move the cut in half things on a bit! Not sure where I'm moving them to, mind...

Woof!

2011-11-21T22:26:00.004Z

Elle and I just finished off a little dog print that's been needing the final colour for about a month!

Yours for a paltry tenner in our Etsy shoppe!

Hat's life

2011-11-17T15:50:00.001Z

Christmas Turkey

2011-11-15T11:56:00.002Z

The finished turkey Christmas card is now available on our Etsy shop!

Christmas cards!

2011-11-14T14:56:00.004Z

I'm aiming to have some Christmassy stuff up on the Etsy shop as soon as possible. I started printing card no. 1 today. Made the mistake of exposing all 3 separations on the same screen, which means I have to wait for it to dry between each colour.

Looking ok so far, though.

Exhibition - Bristol - Feb 2012

2011-11-11T10:30:00.002Z

I'm part of an exhibition that will be on at Bristol's Centrespace gallery, next February. Irritatingly, I'll be out of the country for it's duration!

Very much excited/petrified by the prospect of getting stuck into producing work for this!

I know, I know. It's only just November!

2011-11-09T19:09:00.003Z

...but I've been drawing Christmassy stuff in preparation for December, with a view to making cards and things like that and maybe a few presents for people.

Here's a Turkey.

Finished print

2011-11-03T17:07:00.004Z

It's not -totally- what I had in mind. I definitely could have done with planning the colours through a lot better! As a process test it answered a few questions, though.

Sorry about the blurry photo. Not much light in the flat when it's gloomy outside! By the way, the paper actually is that colour - 'mushroom' apparently. It's not just bad white balance!

More map screen print - process

2011-11-02T12:56:00.002Z

This screen printed map thing I'm doing is made up of 6 separations (Or rather it's going to be; 3 more to do) that are all drawn in pencil, straight onto thick tracing paper. I find it far easier to draw straight onto tracing paper than muck around with scanning in and printing back out on to transparencies. I've tried a few different tracing papers and find that the Goldline 112gsm A3 pads are a good option if you're not up for forking out squillions of quids.

These are the 6 separations I drew, then exposed directly onto the screens. I find it nearly impossible to not smudge graphite all over the paper while I'm drawing, but then I suppose I don't have the cleanest style of drawing anyway so I don't worry about that too much.

Etsy shop!

2011-11-01T17:59:00.003Z

Oh yeah, Elle and I now have an Etsy shop for Archive Print. It's here:

Archive Print Etsy Shop!

At the moment it's got the two prints I posted earlier, including a very nice framed 'Long Ears & Short Ears'. We'll be adding more stuff very soon, including cards, more prints, bags and all that jazz.

(No actual jazz for sale)

Map print - in progress

2011-11-01T17:53:00.004Z

I've started work on a sort-of test print. I want to know how some ideas I have for Jim's map print will work out so I'm doing a 'dummy print,' to get a feel for the lay of the land!

This is colour 3 of at least 4. I want to do more layers over the top with details and roads and so-on. I'm basically making it up as I go along and treating this print as an extension of my sketchbook.

Anyone who's done any screenprinting before will no doubt be a-gape at my incredibly high-tech set-up!

Map sketches

2011-10-31T08:44:00.004Z

Some planning sketches:
My friend James has commissioned me to do a large (250mmx500mm) print for him. Choosing a size that's larger than I can fit on my screens has possibly made things harder than they need to be for myself, but there we go!

I'm very much looking forward to getting stuck into making the print as I've not printed this big before. Slightly apprehensive about how on earth I'm actually going to go about it...

Some ambiguous sketches

2011-10-18T10:29:00.003+01:00

Long Ears, Short Ears screenprint

2011-10-13T14:40:00.004+01:00

Some more screenprinted animals. Less ambiguous this time.
This is based on a diagram from The Wonder World of Snow and Ice, which has some very neat isotype illustrations (cheers for the lend, Anna!)

Another hand-screenprinted, signed and numbered 2 colour run of 15 that's yours for a paltry tenner - mail me at mail@alexd.co.uk

Ambiguous animal & rider screenprint

2011-10-11T17:35:00.005+01:00

I've been enjoying drawing ambiguous animals recently, as per the card below. I suppose this one is some sort of camelweaselllama. With boots.

This is one of a short run of 15 hand-pulled 2-colour screenprints on nice 'wholemeal' A4 card. If you want one, they're £10 each (signed and numbered) - drop me an email at mail@alexd.co.uk

Thank-you cards

2011-10-10T22:08:00.003+01:00

I did some thank-you cards for our friends (the same couple who we did wedding invites for) - guests to their wedding were asked to contribute towards their America tour honeymoon instead of giving wedding gifts.

Creature greetings cards

2011-10-10T22:03:00.004+01:00

Some little beasties made their way on to some greetings cards. If anyone knows what kind of animal the last one is, please enlighten me!

Archive Print

2011-06-23T08:12:00.004+01:00

Look for some of our consumables, at Anna's stall at Netil Market (London) this Saturday!

MIX - Colawasps

2011-06-12T10:45:00.003+01:00

Here's a short mix of summery, laid back, vaguely funky stuff. One of two I managed to do in the short space of time I had my decks set up today!
No tracklist, I'm afraid, but some featured artists are Pierre Henry, Spirit, Loading Zone, The Bee Gees, Sugarloaf, Las Grecas, James Gang, Small Faces and a few others...
[download]

Commission: Wedding Invites

2011-06-10T12:34:00.004+01:00

Some friends are getting married and asked Elle and I to do their wedding invites.

The invites are screen-printed and then sealed with wax. the seal is made from lead type, taped together!

Begbrook Primary School Mural

2011-05-04T14:00:00.003+01:00

So yeah, Martin Jones and I did a large mural for Begbrook Primary School. It was all four sides of a storage building and it was great fun to do. I've not got good shots of the completed mural yet, so I'm only uploading detail shots for now. Full shots and timelapse to follow.

Yet more birds, I'm afraid

2011-04-26T22:28:00.003+01:00

A while ago myself and Martin Jones did a mural for Begbrook primary school in Bristol. I will put it up here soon, but wanted to get a timelapse wot I dun of us painting it sorted out first.

In the meantime, here are birds:

Finished 'Signal' - poster illustration

2011-03-23T14:29:00.003Z

Thought I'd upload the finished full illustration for this, seeing as it's all gone to print etc.

I thought the speech bubbles were a tiny bit twee, perhaps, but there we go.

'Signal' - poster illustration

2011-03-01T11:48:00.003Z

Part of an illustration I'm doing for a fold-out information sheet/poster type-thing.

Teal/Orange

2011-02-17T11:17:00.003Z

I've just had a look back at my previous posts and it turns out I've been following the current Hollywood trend for making EVERYTHING in shades of teal and orange.

I'll try and buck the trend by doing a drawing in turquoise and vermillion.

Save the Date

2011-02-17T11:14:00.003Z

Elle and myself designed a 'save the date' card for our friends Simon and Annabelle's impending wedding bash. We based it on a library date card (the ones that went inside library books with the return date, before libraries went extinct).

Adj Egy Percet

2011-02-03T21:08:00.002Z

So my friend Jonny and I decided to do a CD swap. It was about fourty months ago we decided to do this and I've only just got round to doing it. Nevertheless, in the interest of utterly showing-off, I decided to make mine as lavish as possible and put loads of obscure stuff on it. It's a double CD gatefold; I had to stop myself from doing liner sleeves for each CD.

More birds and synthesizers

2010-12-03T15:03:00.001Z

A painting I did with emulsion, acrylic and spray paint

Thank Sparks It's Not Christmas

2010-11-18T13:42:00.002Z

Sparks - Thank God It's Not Christmas

Happy Birthday Anna

2010-11-01T21:20:00.005Z

It was Elle's sister's birthday at the weekend, so I made her a present.
Acrylic and varnish on wood, with wood frame.
It took longer to make the frame than paint the picture!

In case you can't tell, it's based on the vector illustration below.

Stool Pigeon

2010-10-19T14:41:00.003+01:00

Hot cha-cha-cha!

90 degree angling

2010-10-19T09:17:00.002+01:00

Leaflet illustrations

2010-10-12T16:17:00.002+01:00

Designed a leaflet for a mediation service, which turned out quite well, I thought. Here are some quick illustrations wot I dun for it:

Rook Wakeman

2010-09-19T18:28:00.002+01:00

For the first time in ages, I did a painting on a wall. Actually, it's the first time in ages I've done a painting, let alone on a wall.
I used a combination of emulsion, acrylic, spray paint and poster paint (!)

Excuse me, I'm tweeting

2010-09-15T15:18:00.003+01:00

Strange birds keep landing on the notepad I use to jot down stuff from phonecalls.

(Obviously that sounds far more mysterious than the reality, which is that I'm simply drawing them whilst on the phone.)

More-Vue

2010-09-14T14:07:00.003+01:00

a few more from the Ful-Vue. All of these photos are taken in France, either in or around Touget or in Biarritz.

Elle definitely took the sunflower photo, the others could be either one of us. Apart from the ones of her. It's fairly likely I took those!

Ensign Ful-Vue

2010-09-14T13:43:00.002+01:00

Just got the first film back from the Ensign Ful-Vue 120 camera Elle found. If only there was some iPhone app that made photos look like this....

Bristow

2010-09-09T16:29:00.002+01:00

Bath time

2010-06-30T15:08:00.000+01:00

From a tourist map of Bath wot I dun.

Doggy doos

2010-06-30T10:46:00.002+01:00

I can't draw dogs that look like dogs, apparently...

Earwax - Friday 23rd April

2010-03-24T10:16:00.003Z

We're doing another Earwax night. This time it's at The Lanes, so you can bowl while you listen to exciting music.

We have The Mandibles playing, too, which should be great fun!

New record centres for Jon Kennedy

2010-03-23T11:05:00.002Z

I got asked to do a centre label for Jon Kennedy - his new single 'Boom Clack'.
(buy it here: Juno.co.uk )

I wanted to do a sort of 60s pastiche centre in the style of the pink and white Vogue label centres and similar. I'm pretty pleased with the result!

I got two versions: a red vinyl one and a rather lovely dark, dark red one. It just looks like black vinyl on the photo, but trust me, it's a really nice colour!

Garden party

2010-03-05T09:35:00.001Z

Someone was kind enough to leave a lovely set of outdoor furniture in the luxury shared garden space next to my house. Unfortunately someone by the name of 'deb' seems to have reserved the best seat.

Hadron Collider - 12th Feb

2010-01-25T20:57:00.005Z

Myself and Martin just dun a poster for our next evening of music. As should be fairly obvious, it's a pastiche of a penguin book circa 1964.

P.s. it's Nikola Tesla in the middle.

Bombay Mix

2010-01-22T00:21:00.005Z

Ok so I got back from an amazing holiday in South India with Elle last week. Some photos will end up on here at some point but for now, here is a short little mix I made from some of the records I managed to find while I was over there!

Tracklist to come at some point, possibly.

merry new yearmas

2009-12-24T09:24:00.003Z

Last post of the year, this. I shall be off to India after Christmas so the posting shall be slightly less frequent than usual until the end of January, when I shall probably be uploading holiday snaps.

Have a great yuletide festive holiday christmas time!

Here's that poster for The Lanes wot I dun:

Presenting

2009-12-21T10:36:00.004Z

If I posted any drawings I've done recently it would mean disclosing top-secret present information and, frankly, I'm not prepared to do that.

Last night it did a bit of a snow so I had a wander around the East Street slums with my camera. Even Asda looked nice!

Checklist?

2009-12-18T13:51:00.000Z

Tardy cat

2009-12-14T13:19:00.001Z

No drawings all weekend!

Very poor effort I know, but I was busy doing a poster, which shall be on here once it's been printed and so on.

"Welcome to your doom!"

2009-12-09T16:58:00.000Z

Writing lists and checking them twice

2009-12-09T12:30:00.001Z

Robot arms and birdmen

2009-12-08T14:01:00.000Z

Happy Tuesday

Semi-apocalyptic morning

2009-12-08T09:32:00.001Z

I couldn't see any horsemen, but I did nearly get run over by a youth on a moped...

The Lanes

2009-12-07T15:54:00.001Z

I'm playing around with some ideas for a poster for The Lanes in Bristol.

Currently unable to progress beyond buildings.

Monday's scribble

2009-12-07T15:22:00.000Z

No activity over the weekend. Must try harder.

Stocking Filler

2009-12-04T15:13:00.002Z

I've been trying out some ideas for christmas cards today. I don't think I'm feeling very festive as everything I've come up have been somewhat horrid.

Here is a zombie foot stocking. Or something.