Latest illustrations from Michelle Turton!

These beautiful illustrations are the work of illustrator Michelle Turton and will be featured within the latest GIRLS WHO DRAW postcard booklet.

Girls who draw are an international group of all female illustrators, each one with their own unique visual language. Their work is very diverse including slick digital graphics, quirky hand drawn characters, and humourous sequential imagery.The theme of this booklet is Menagerie.

There are 11 illustrators involved in the project - each illustrator has 2 postcards to design. Confirmed exhibitions to accompany the book are Here Gallery in Falmouth, July 2010 and Red Door Gallery in Edinburgh, August 2010. There will be 2 more venues, these will be closer to London www.girlswhodraw.wordpress.com

New Work from the Awesome Dan Kitchener!

A new illustration and some street work by Dan Kitchener! -come along to Decked at StolenSpace to see him in action!

Dan Kitchener Illustrations

A couple of new illustrations from amazingly prolific artist Dan Kitchener! http://www.dankitchener.co.uk/

New website from illustrator Ben Tallon

New work and shiny new website from illustrator Ben Tallon! check it out here... http://www.benandink.co.uk/ for some awesome hand drawn line work!

David Shillinglaw New Exhibitions!

David Shillinglaw has two exhibitions coming up this month in London town! The first is Visionaries on from 20 May – 10 June 2009 at Wallspace, All Hallows on the Wall, 83 London Wall, London.

Visionaries is a group exhibition celebrating those who explore the territories of the spiritual, the religious and the human condition. Artists include Stanley Spencer, Peter Howson, the Chapman brothers, Billy Childish, and Adam Neate. Read more about Visionaries at:
http://www.wallspace.org.uk/exhibitions/current/index.html

The second is CHAOS IS MY FAVOURITE COLOUR
A solo exhibition of new paintings and drawings shown at Frevd, 198 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, from 24th May-28th June 2009.

Aaron Petz selected works!

To get us started introducing some of our artists here at Decked we asked the immensely talented New York designer and illustrator Aaron Petz to kick off with some of his works and a few words on how he created them...Avenged Sevenfold:
This silkscreen was designed for the Avenged Sevenfold All Excess DVD. The Silver is a reversal where you can see your reflection. I used halftones to make the stencil appear to be a real stencil. This DVD went gold. Warner Bros Records.

Boy Malitia:

This illustration was adapted from a National Geographic photograph of boy soliders in Africa. They are 7-18 yrs old in most cases and trained to kill. It was heartbeaking looking through all those images. You can see the expression of carelessness in the boys eyes. Private study.

Love Birds:
A Tribute to Roy Liechtenstein, Love Birds is a new adaptation of a piece of his work. The shirt was created using a direct to garment printing method and was created to look weathered and old. This is a tattoo inspired line with many call outs to classic American style tattoo art. Sweetest Vice Clothing.



Monique Baines:
Singer / Songwriter Monique Baines of of SRC Records debut album artwork called, "Listen". This image was conceptualized by hand, then roughly illustrated digitally for the perspective. Then we took a photo of the artist to plug her in to the composition. Album will be in stores soon.



Our Lady G:
This image was an original graffiti piece I did on the back of my house. From there I made a few sketches of it, scanned them in and the took a few photos and comped them all in using different stylized methods EX: line, halftones, blurs etc. What was left is now the trademark shirt of Fallen Angels.



Soulfly:
This image of Dana was illustrated and placed esthetically around a flock of birds. Soulfly puts on a charity event each year for Dana and will continue to do so. My job every year it to make sure the art looks better and better. This admat was for the Phoenix Newtimes.

To check out more of Aaron's work, take a walk down http://aaronpetz.com/