SoCal Day 2 & 3

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Malicious

Day two was basically shopping… ;) Even without the excellent exchange rate USA is mostly alot cheaper then AUS. Add the $1.10 exchange and its like a half price sale everywhere!

This is what Doug has be driving me around in, a bit of both. Dam, I really need to get our Plymouth on road!

Checked out Walmart, that is a fkn experience. The biggest single store you’ve probably ever seen and they sell pretty much everything. An I mean every thing! The usual department start crap down to car tyres (!!) and McDonalds!!! Yup, a fkn Maccas in the store… I grabbed some dickies shorts for stuff all. Bonus.

From there I got myself a USA sim card for local calls and mobile internet. Bewarned this is more of a pain in the arse then you think. There is a company that you can pre buy a USA sim card from, seriously do that!

After that we hit the ‘block’, an open air mall. The Vans store there has a massive indoor skate park. Plywood ‘street’ part, mini half pyke, pool style pit and a small outdoor ‘street’ bit. Past that, the single biggest ladies shoe store I have ever seen. Crazy. I grabbed a Raiders Jacket and a SF hat. Plus a couple of things for my boy, plush doll and a baby baseball cap! Fk yeah!


 


Day three was more of a Local lowbrow experience. First up, ‘Trifty Store’ Dougs secret frame source. I picked up a frame and something a little different, I’m sure you’ll see them in the future!

From there it was off to Coast Airbrush. To call this an art supply store, while apt, it would be just as wrong. Its art supplys for kustom culture. So shit loads of 1 Shot, house of colour, fibre glass statues etc. Out back there’s a studio space for some resident artists like, Mark Remling and previously ‘Rhino’. There’s also a bit of a gallery/museum full of awesome stripped and airbrushed art. I got a shit load of pics but heres two, you get the idea…

Random Camaro, I like the big ‘stockish’ looking rims… Can you believe these are $40k here? and they want $180k in oz.

This should need no introduction-

Doug does a decent amount of work for Lucky13 so when we were in the area he gave them a quick bell and managed to get me a tour of the ‘hallowed ground’ from one of partners, Arnie. The offices are lined with original and limited prints of artwork. You really get the vibe that these guys are in it for the culture and the art. I got a sneak peak at the new range coming and its looking real good! I also find it’s pretty amazing that they do all most all the manufacturing on premises.


Found this in the warehouse out back, holy fk…

Well tomorrow is show day! Time for some business ;)

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Day One-ish

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Malicious

So the plan was to a pull an all nighter on tuesday night before the 7am flight. Rumor is that plan sucked. I had a quick kip on the Melb to Syd flight, then had a long tired insomniac flight into LA. Up side is I had time to do some squiggles etc. More on that later!

So first stop, Gasoline Gallery to drop off the artwork. Small lookin ain’t it?

While I was there, Sara Ray came by to drop off her piece for the show and offered to give me a lift to Doug’s. Score!

So the rest of the day was spent chatting to Doug and just generally bumming about and drinking caffeine to avoid spontaneous bouts of power sleeps! Doug has a pretty amazing amount of art hang about his house and a crazy Tiki collection. Heaps of inspiration to be had!

So as a nice wrap up for the day I finished off the second pic I started on the flight and gave it a quick slap of colour markers.


More tomorrow after its happened…

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Shameless self promo packs…

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Malicious

are nearly ready to go!

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Packin, Art and New desk…

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Malicious

Wow, in less then four days I’m going to go MIA on Australia and be catching a birdy over to the land of stars and stripes. Crazy. To be honest I’m not sure its gonna hit me till I’m sitting on the plane. I’ve just been SO BUSY it really hasn’t had time to catch up to me! I actually only just booked my hotel in San Francisco believe it or not… oops!

Anyway I thought it was about time that I gave an update on the trip and the crap I’ve been up to. First off is the plan of attack for the states!

Here’s as far as my packing has gotten; I’ve got a fresh Moleskin for the trip, some new business cards and something to read! Don’t quote me but I’m hoping to keep this whole blog up to date nearly daily while I’m away, including a daily sketch. Hence the fresh Moleskin.

While I’m in LA I have the amazing pleasure of crashing with Doug ‘the man’ Dorr, I added ‘the man’, fk Mundine (Please don’t box my face in)! Legend in the low brow scene, Pin striper extraordinaire and all round top bloke. Check his gear here: Doug Dorr.

So besides California Screaming 6, I’m aiming to hit up some of the local sites. I’m hoping to check out the local Hot Rod scene, get to a Baseball game, check some of the leading street stores (hundreds, miska, supreme, etc) and check out the usual locations, Santa Monica, Huntington Beach, Long Beach, etc. Reckon Jessie James might be kicking about?

From there its off to San Francisco and sticking my nose into all things Art in the Juxtapoz capital. As well as Upper Playground, etc.

So here is where I could do with the help of any of you Aussies reading this, I want to take a bit of an Aussie Sampler over with me. Culture up these Yanks! ;) Here is my list so far if you have something else I need to add, shoot me an email or comment on this post.

Food:
Vegemite!!!!
Anzac Bickies (Not Cookies!)
Crunchas (if I can find someone that sells them in the big smoke!)
Pav – Too hard to transport!

Music Mix Tape: SERIOUSLY NEED SOME HELP CUTTING THIS DOWN!!
The 12th Man –
Daddy Cool – Eagle Rock
The Saints – I’m Stranded OR The Music goes round my head…
The Go Betweens – ?
ACDC – Back in Black
Cold Chisel – ?
Ganggajan – Sounds of then
Paul Kelly – How to Make Gravy
Hunters and Collectors – Holy Grail OR Throw Your Arms Around Me
Skyhooks – Horror Movie
Ash Grunwald – Devil Called me a Liar
The Vines – ?
Powderfinger – ?
Grinspoon – Champion
Spiderbait – Buy me a Pony OR
Frenzal Rhomb – Im A Backwards Fucken Useless Piece Of Dogshit.. And I Vote OR Punch In The Face OR I Went Out With a Hippy & Now I Love Everyone Except For Her
COG –
Regurgitator – Kong Foo Sing OR Miffy’s Simplicity
Horrorshow – Thinking crime
Muph & Plutonic – Heaps Good (love it or hate it!)
Hilltop Hoods – Testimonial Year
Butterfingers – Yo Mumma
28 Days – Say What?
The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist

Music Maybes;
Jet – Are you gonna be my girl
Wolfmother – Woman
The Grates – Trampoline
Sleepy Jackson – Devil was in my yard
Silverchair – Pure Massacre
Machine Gun Felatio –
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

Ok so past that done, here are a few new Pieces I have just finished recently: I have a few left our of the run of 10 Scape goat colour prints, if your interested, shoot me an email.

I’ve also been busy making up a new desk! Well, whacking a new top on the frame of the old desk, but yeah its better then nothing… I had to hop it up first tho ;)





Not perfect, but then its nearly completely hidden under the computer so meh! I like it.

Well thats it for now, more very soon I dare say!

Until then “Stay cool. Eat crunchas!”

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Malicious X Gasoline Gallery LA

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Malicious

Can I get a drum roll?!? I’ve got a pretty big announcement!

As you know, I exhibited three new pieces in the California Screaming Down Under show at Kustom Lane Gallery, which opened on Sunday 3rd of April. California Screaming Down Under is the “sister” show of the California Screaming show at Gasoline Gallery in California. The US show reads like a “who’s who” of the lowbrow art scene, with big names such as Damian Fulton, The Pizz, Weesner, Makoto, Mr G, Big Toe, Jimbo Philips, Doug Dorr, Max Grundy etc, etc.

As part of the Australian show, three pieces of artwork get sent to the states to be shown at Gasoline Gallery in California, as well as one artist…turns out I am the artist!!! So for this California Screaming show my inane scrawling’s are going to be hung in the hallowed halls of Gasoline Gallery along side the greatest names in lowbrow art today. Talk about fkn humbling!

As you can imagine, I have been on cloud nine since finding out. As reality sets in, the chaos of organising a trip to the US on such short notice is getting frantic. So much to do, so little time. I hardly have time to sleep at the moment.

The show is still at Kustom Lane Gallery this weekend, so if you haven’t had a chance to get over there and check out some of the amazing artwork, do yourself a favour and take the time to do so this weekend as it closes for good at 6pm this Sunday.

Also, if you’re reading this from SoCal, I don’t have to tell you how awesome California Screaming is, but I will any way! So if you’re free on Saturday May 14th, get down to Gasoline Gallery from midday and check out the awesome artwork on show.

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California Screaming Down-Under

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Malicious

Hard to believe a year has flown by, but it has. Kustom Lane is again hosting its California Screaming Down-Under art show. This is the ‘sister’ (or brother) show to the Gasoline Galleries own California Screaming show. It show cases some of the Best Lowbrow artists from around Australia. As an added ‘bonus’ thress of the artworks are chosen by Gasoline Gallery to be shown in the US for the Original California Screaming show later this year. Pretty cool eh?

Show Opens this Sunday the 3rd, around lunch time. If you are so inclined, come down and check it out!

Also, somehow some of my artwork got snuck up in there… ;)

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New show opening – etc

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Malicious

Hey so late notice, but I’m part of a group show at Brunswick Street Gallery (BSG) opening Friday 4th of March (tomorrow). I’ve got 6m of wall space covered in my scribbles. A few brand spankers as well as some older ones. It’s running for 2 weeks ending on the 17th. If you get the urge, go check it out!

Heres a link to the facebook event and heres a flyer:

I’ve been FLAT CHAT getting the new work done for this show, which now that its about to open, is a massive weight of my busted arse shoulders. BUT there’s no rest for the malicious, as I’m back at it straight away for the ‘California Screaming Down-Under 2′ show at Kustom Lane Gallery. Which should be opening on the 2nd of April, so take this as advanced warning ‘cos I’m as slack as a mofo when it comes to advance warning on here.

On that train of thought, I ususaly update my FB page a little quicker, so feel free to check it out, like it, whatever. HERE

Well I don’t post tooo often so fk it I’ll make this one a long one! Here are a couple of quick ink sketches that I’ve been doing to stress relieve between artworks. Theres ‘Judge Dredd’ and a ‘Space Marine’, yeah I know geeky but they a fast and fun!

This Dredd was about an hour and a half for the pencils and inks, and another maybe hour in PS for colours.

This Space Marine I didn’t really keep track of time, I was just twiddling while watching a movie one night and finished it of another day. Was a bit longer then dredd tho.

I’m really having fun with this style, you MIGHT se some more of this… Maybe in a comic format….

Speaking of which next time I’ll post up a couple of pages from the comic I did for Black Glass Press‘s Kagemoto: Flowers and Skulls

Cool, till then, I’m not saying goodbye I’m just saying… BRAAAAIIINNNNNSSSS!

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Busted up and Updated Gallery!

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Malicious

So a couple of weeks back I thought it’d be fun to hoon around on my mates pocket bike. Actually it was fun, but ended badly, as shit like that always does!

BAM!

Anyway, a few weeks of rest and an operation and I’m on the mend, slowly. Luckily I’m right fisted so (even tho I shouldn’t have) I’ve still been able to slowly do a tid bits of artwork. Thank fk! ‘Cos there are two shows coming up that I’ve got to get new artwork done for! More on that closer to the dates!

BEFORE that happened tho I got two new pieces done to show at the Vic. Which I’ve just added to the gallery. I hope you dig!

Also here’s another digi sketch I did a while back. This one is a mixed media one tho. Inks first coloured on the computer.

I’m going to be doing a wee gallery overhaul soon. Adding a digital artwork section, as I have more of it, as well as an update the client work I’ve been doing over the past year and a bit. Soon, SOON!

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Some Artwork hanging up at The Vic.

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Malicious

If you happen to find yourself on Victoria Street in Abbortsford (Melb) gaging for a drink, might I recommend The Vic @ 281 Victoria Street, just east of Punt Road. Besides being a pretty cool joint to have a brew and a chat, for the next few weeks the walls will be lined with some of my art work, including two brand new never seen before pieces.

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Judge Death Vs Judge Anderson

Posted on December 18, 2010 by Malicious

Basically just for shits and giggles. Thought I might do a few ‘quickies’ of some of the characters I grew up loving to read about as a kid. This one is Judge Death – Judge Anderson. Not in love with it. Might colour it up see fi that might make it pop.

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