Never Mind the Hitchcocks

Cinema has had a strong influence on the collection of items that we have bought in for our online shop and recently i was in front of the TV when Alfred Hitchcock's 'To Catch a Thief 'came on.

I don't really like this particular film but something caught my eye and it was the scene below:

Hitchcock is such a master of colour, there never seems to be anything that looks wrong in his colour palette.

Style wise we love North by Northwest the most and we have gone for a similar vibe in our home where all our stock was photographed.

This picture below was taken in our lounge The tiles that you can see are on the Chimney breast wall. A homage to the pic above from North By Northwest.

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We also have some lamps similar to these below

here is ours:

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An experiment

I love the images below from Surrealist Leonor Fini and i had wanted to paint something like these for quite sometime.

I had also wanted to try painting over a photo as i love the Work of Dr Lakra. (see earlier post: http://evillefthand.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/he-is-not-mexicant.html )

I have to try and come with something for an advert for Tooth & Claw and so this is something that i was experimenting with today.

This isn't really going to work for the brand but i had fun doing it all the same.
Oh well, back to the drawing board. Literally!

Tony Fitzpatrick

On my recent trip to Italy i happened upon an Art magazine in the hotel lobby. I really liked the artwork on the cover and last night i finally got around to investigating the artist further. The Artist in question is Tony Fitzpatrick

His work is mostly a mixed media of collage and drawing. Like Shepard Fairey he uses certain images time and again, this helps to tie all the work together i think and anyway i really love all his odd little symbols and icons.
He seems to be influenced by comic books, tattoos, album covers, folk art and a few other things i can't identify and his work reminds me of something that i can't quite put my finger on. Not another artist's work as such. It's  more like when you hear a song for the first time that somehow seems really familiar but you know for certain that it is the first time you have ever heard it.
I suppose what i am trying to say is that it struck a chord with me immediately. He are some samples of his work - each linking to his blog which is also worth checking out as the tales that relate to each work are quite something.

Enjoy:

Some great paintings from a surprising source

I've recently been getting into Country music and Americana. If you go down that route you probably have to take a least small amount of time to listen to the work of John 'Cougar' Mellencamp.

His hits in the 80's really did nothing for me but there really is some great stuff to be found in his body of work and the small selection of tracks on his MySpace page are brilliant.

Much to my surprise he is also a damn good painter, here is a small selection of his stuff i have found online:

Macabre kids’ book art by Gojin Ishihara

Macabre kids’ book art by Gojin Ishihara ::: Pink Tentacle

EEEEEEk!

This one is terrifying!..and this is for kids!!!