Blues at Bridgetown Logo Design

I was honoured to design the Blues at Bridgetown logo 2016 with the challeblues-logo-smallnge to incorporate blues music with the wonderful rolling hills and scenery of Bridgetown.

The final artwork was painted in watercolour, gouache and inks.

The design was printed on a number of items including caps, stubby holders and shirts. I managed to snaffle a shirt that I immediately tried o

At the time of writing there’s still a limited number of t-shirts available with the design. Contact the Blue’s committee at their website.

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Bridgetown Book Launch – Captain Sneer

Thanks to everyone that turned out for my Bridgetown book launch of Captain Sneer.

It was a fantastic evening chatting to friends andimg_2347 meeting new people from around the South West.

What really impressed me was the astonishing amount of food my Mum and sister were able to produce towards the night. It took me half a day to make one batch of cheese straws while they produce copious amounts of delicious finger foods on the morning of the launch. Wow guys!

Two families of pirates turned up that I had to snaffle photos with. The youngest pirate
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I had an original pirate artwork as a door prize that was won by the Donnybrook-Bridgetown Mail journalist, Lee, who does such an amazing job covering these events.

After the piratey presentation that covered the progress of creating Captain Sneer the evening drew to a close.

A special thanks goes to my Dad, for being official photographer for the night, my brother, Jacob, for being the swanky barman and to my sister, Esther, for making some after launch goodies.

Also, a special thanks to the library staff and to Karen from the Manjimup-Bridgetown Times for writing up a super-duper article prior to the book launch.

Next launch, the State Library of WA, October 27th!

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Captain Sneer Touring the West

I’m in the middle of painting a limited number of life-sized (and slightly smaller) Captain Sneer cutouts to be showcased in bookshops and libraries from Albany to Perth.

The first Sneer is already on his way to Albany where his final destination will be the display window at Paperbark Bookshop.

Before he left my dog, Lacie, and I had a quick photoshoot with the ol’ fella.