Flying Folk Pig

This is a cardboard trade I did with RE!BELL around February but forgot to post.

My first 2 plushies.

The top one is painted white muslin. The bottom one is straight up material. Both are hand stitched. Can't wait to learn how to use a sewing machine. I never in my wildest dreams thought I would ever say that. The face is 4 buttons and a rusty washer I found on a walk in my neighborhood. I thought the washer was so cool that I went to Home Depot and bought bags of different sizes and put them out in my back yard to rust up. Hot dang I love rust!

My first Munny

This guy is in the bee family. I am still thinking about what to give him for an accessory. He looks more like an old school bank robber. About those eyes. I bought a bunch of different sized washers and put them out in my back yard to rust. I call it my rust farm. I don't know how long it will take so in the mean time, these are faux rust washers.

Robot Getaway

Mixed media on cardboard. 7"X7"

Even Baby Octo-Bots Need Sleep

SOLD
This is an old Zip disk. Amazing how fast this became low tech. 100mb used to be huge. But old computer disks are great objects to paint on.

After a full week of non-stop stuffed baby octo harvesting, the bots get confused and tangled up in their work. This guy needs an ice cold bottle of 5w-30 and a few hours in the Z-pod.

The Hills are Concerned

Lots going on in my mind that just spilled out in this piece.

1/4K Pudding Run

Just messing around with an all digital illustration. With my recent gallery stuff, I haven't been on the computer for a while. It felt good. Martha Rich has a tracksuit call out on her blog. Mine may not be up yet.

"Lemony Cloud Dance" at Fusion Gallery

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Another piece for a current show called "Off the Wall" over at the Fusion Gallery in Collingswood, NJ. That's South Jersey. Artist reception is 6-10pm on Saturday, Feb. 9. The artists featured in this show are all street artists and then there's innocent little me. Haaa! I was there at set up and the stuff is killer. So if you are in the area or even if you aren't, get over to say hi and be inspired. Collingswood has a thing called second Saturday so the shops will be open and you will be there, right?

The Little Life & Death Parade

FOR SALE
Here is another one for the show in South Jersey. When the gallery owner saw my stuff a month ago, he loved it and decided to retro fit me into an existing scheduled show so the details on my part of it are still sketchy.

Pink Cycloptopus

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This is one of 4-5 pieces for a show in a cool South Jersey Gallery this February. I'm stoked. More info to come when it gets closer.

I was bitten by the Kokeshi Doll bug.

Ever since seeing the Kokeshi Doll exhibit that ran at the Subtext Gallery, I knew I had to create my own. I ordered 2 blanks from Christina Conway, the curator for the show. The egg body ended up being too big in proportion to the head for my character based on the illustration I already did titled, "An Orange Is Always Good In A Pinch". So I cut a smaller ball and he looked the way I wanted him to. I plan on doing a different character using the egg body supplied.

Interview in Castle Magazine

Castle is a downloadable pdf magazine full of hot art. This was a fun interview. Be inspired and see what makes jim tick.

Octopink

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Happy new year everyone. I wish you all a much better year than 2007. This is my first piece of art for the year. It is acrylic and pencil on cardboard. Fun.

Vector Drip Guy

The fun in illustrator continues with another character in the line. What is Jim up to? Hmmmmmm. So mysterious.

Illustrator Rules!

You all knows what a fan of texture I am but I have a flat side to me. I get excited every time I see really cool vector art. And I love Adobe Illustrator. Here is a character from a concept I am working on. You may be seeing more of him and his friends in the future.

An Orange Is Always Good In A Pinch

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I love Mexican and South American culture. The colors and patterns blow me away. I was on a Mexican folk art site and got all reinspired. This is the result. I had an old desk from my mother's childhood that was falling apart and so before throwing it out, I kept the drawers and put them in my "gotta paint on that" someday pile. It's been over a year and this skull guy seemed perfect for the distressed wood drawer. Now I want to do more of these.

Brain freeze

When my brain seizes up, I do a journal/sketch and everything gets better again.

Nuns are funny sometimes

What can I say? I was messing around in my moleskin and all of a sudden felt like drawing a nun. I never know where my mind will take me. I like it that way.

Tis the Season

Poor little mummy. As if being dead isn't bad enough.

Geekzilla Attacks the Alien Birdbugs!

I know. My posting is down. Life is in the way and I need to do some full-color work soon or I will pop. I feel like this Geekzilla guy right now. Arrrrrgh!

Jim Bradshaw Moleskins Featured In Encore Magazine

I can't believe how much enthusiastic feedback I've been getting on my moleskin sketches since I started posting them. I was contacted a couple of months back by Encore Magazine and they wanted to run a feature of my mad little doodles in issue #36. Encore is a multi-award winning German online art, design, and film magazine. It's a great read even without my art. Haaaha. And the subscription is free. You can find me on the contents page under art, titled Moleskin. Enjoy!
Note: I did the above montage of various moleskin pages and think I might be on to another technique/look. It's funny how every new thing I try ends up a happy surprise that sends me down a fresh new path.

More mokeskins

Hollow Lemon with Cheese Color

You Must Pay and By All Means, Display

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This sign cracked me up. It took me a minute to figure out what seemed like a random order. Marine Park used to have free parking. Ahhh...progress.

Hollow Lemon with Cheese

I never know what to name my moleskin pages with all the stuff going on. I usually just go with the most prominent thing on the page. How sensible of me.

The Necessary Evil

The need for money is what is keeping me and many other illustrators locked in our full-time jobs. Kinda makes for this love/hate relationship with that dirty green stuff.

Little Planet

I did an original doodle for a friend, but scanned it before I gave it away. Then I just had to see this thing in color.

Another Beautiful Day

Is there anything happier than a kid at the beach? That is how I felt when I went to Ocean City yesterday on a perfect September day.

Wandering Moleskin Doodles

Whatever came to my mind, landed on the page.

When Jim Dreams

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Some moleskin fun from my slightly warped mind.

Robo Brainwash

Here's a character I've been messing with. It's actually 2 characters. They are forced to get along in a codependent situation somewhere in the future.

We have visitors

It's not going to be like war of the worlds. Anyone who spends so much time and energy just to visit humans like me won't be tipping the S.A.T richter scale in my opinion. Any way, I have been having a great time in my new moleskin. This is one of the pages with some very minor photoshop color touches. I included close ups so you can see all the fun paint and pencil details.

My Kit Cat Clock

This illustration is of my Kit Cat Clock hanging in my studio. My grandmother had one of these when I was growing up and I remember being hypnotised by those roving eyes. So since I am so into time and clocks, I just had to have one. It was only a matter of time before I drew it.