together

That's right, another collage!

I did mention that there was a time I was doing lots of these for Nasou, right?
It's nice looking back at these now with fresh eyes… this particular piece was about leadership and building one's country together.

It really is an interesting and fun technique to use, a bit like film editing, y'know?

balance

In life, as in all things, one needs to find balance…

This is a collage illustration I did for Nasou Via Afrika's Life Orientation schoolbooks. It's been a great medium to explore. At times frustrating but when things click into place the results are, more often than not, very rewarding!

Best of all is how subtle it can be, symbols and meaning can be found which is both engineered and serendipitous :)

snotty monster

Slime monsters...
You haven't lived until you've drawn a slimey, snotty, pus-riddled blob of gross!

Aah, good times :)

Incidentally, this was another piece I did for Nasou Via Afrika's grade 12 Life Orientation schoolbook.

to Spear or not to Spear

Another illustration I did for Nasou's Grd12 Life Orientation textbook, the intent here I'm certain was to  evoke responses from the students about the controversial painting "The Spear" which was based on this famous Soviet propaganda poster.

It's a pretty crazy story but all the same, it's good to know that a painting can still rattle people as much as this one did…

Olympic heroes

The big story at the moment is the one involving our very own Oscar Pistorius, aka the "blade runner", olympic sweetheart and national hero...

While he is mired in controversy and his innocence is up for debate, I'm not here to flaunt my opinion, instead I'd like to remind all of us that we have many other heroes worthy of our attentions.

   

These were commissioned by Nasou Via Afrika and feature Semanya Caster and Cameron van der Burgh, some of last year's medal takers at the London Olympics.

Due to time constraints, I've had to work more and more digitally. These didn't even have rough drafts, the briefs were very clear and I was able to go straight to the final piece, sometimes the results surprised even me... it's nice when that happens :)

reach!

It’s incredible how two weeks can shoot by, isn’t it?

 I’ve been kept very busy by another swell in the demand for illustrations for school books.

I’ll do my best to stay regular but things could get sketchy (‘scuse the bad pun)

Anyway, enough ramble, here is a triptych from the last wave of work for school books. 

This was stepping out of my comfort zone but it worked out pretty well, I really enjoyed the process of working in collage and look forward to doing more! 

Steve Biko

I reconnected with one of my very first clients recently, Nasou Via Afrika , and got to try out some different techniques… thanks guys!

This illustration is about Steve Biko, a martyred anti-apartheid activist of the 1970s, a man of brilliant thought and compassion. 

"man, you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being” -Biko