UPDATE:WINNER-BEST OF SHOWThis piece won in the small works show at Fusion Gallery in south Jersey this past summer. My second show. Feels like my intro into the gallery scene is off to a happy start. :)
FOR SALEAnother painted Zip disk. This is for an upcoming small works show this summer.
This was going to be just vector art printed, cut and pasted on to a painted board and then collaged with other elements but I got in photoshop and couldn't pull out until it was finished. Now I can't imagine it looking better if I did my plan A. Maybe I'll try it anyway.
Hey you guys. I have prints available over at ivoteforart. Even if you can't afford one, you can at least go and vote. Vote for Jim. He's for change. And he's a danged swell fella too.
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This is a cardboard trade I did with RE!BELL around February but forgot to post.
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!
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Mixed media on cardboard. 7"X7"
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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.
Lots going on in my mind that just spilled out in this piece.
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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
Castle is a downloadable pdf magazine full of hot art. This was a fun interview. Be inspired and see what makes jim tick.
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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.
The fun in illustrator continues with another character in the line. What is Jim up to? Hmmmmmm. So mysterious.
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.
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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.
When my brain seizes up, I do a journal/sketch and everything gets better again.
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.
Poor little mummy. As if being dead isn't bad enough.
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!
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.
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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Whatever came to my mind, landed on the page.
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Some moleskin fun from my slightly warped mind.
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.
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.
What can say summer more than a hot dog on the boardwalk at the Jersey Shore? Maybe two hot dogs?
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I promised I would post the most completed version of this doodle to date. And here it is. Who says Jimmy can't keep his word? For detailed views of this, head over to my new site and click on sketchbook 1 and start with image 5.
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This is a crop from a recent sketch/illustration. It kinda says emergency to me. But hey. What do I know. I only drew the thing. Notice how some don't sense the urgency as they sit around eating blue cheese with tea. Actually, blue cheese IS an emergency if it ends up in my mouth. An instant eject system was installed in my head for terrible things like blue cheese and the like. I know, I spelled blue cheese wrong. I just don't respect the stuff enough to care.
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I finally got my site up and running. Many things tried to get in the way, so it took way longer than I had hoped. Please let me know if there are any problems with links or whatever. Check it out! jbradshaw.net
I have seen illustrators using old books as sketchbooks. Just paint over the pages and let some print show through for texture. This is a way for me to loosen up and get off the computer. Just push paint and stuff around. I sucked my whole family into this and we had a big fun mess on Satruday. I banged out 4 pages and it was freeing.
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