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Ilustrations for Angela Carter's THE BLOODY CHAMBER

2012-01-26T16:59:00.001Z

These are the images I created for the Folio Society and the House Of Illustration's Book Ilustration competition for this year.

The brief was to complete an illustration for three short stories in Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories" along with a front cover for the book. The stories selected were "The Bloody Chamber", "Puss In Boots" and "The Company Of Wolves".

I'd never read any Angela Carter before but a couple of people had mentioned to me in the past that they could see resonances of her work in some of my paintings (I work in a bookshop so have a lot of friends who are much better read than me). I loved the book and will be reading all her other work as well as revisiting the stories in this collection.

Win A Drawing (update)

2012-01-26T15:37:00.001Z

I've finished the drawing I'm offering as a prize (I thought it was finished yesterday but it turns out it wasn't!).

To get a chance at winning the drawing follow this link to Central Station and leave a comment - I'll put the name of anyone who leaves a comment into a hat and pick out a winner.

Central Station (win some art!)

2012-01-24T19:00:00.000Z

Central Station - The Creative Social Network relaunched recently and for 50 Days are featuring 50 Artists.

I was really, really pleased to be picked as one of them (Day 36).

As well as having your work featured being featured puts the artists in the running for a couple of prizes. So in an attempt to try and win I'm trying to encourage people to look at the site over the next few days before the end of the 50 Days and start following them on Facebook or Twitter. I'm going to offer two drawings as prizes, one on Twitter and one on Facebook.

So, if you follow the link on Central Station's Facebook profile to the page featuring my drawing "Corner Of Her Eye" and leave a comment (and you could "like" Central Station's page on Facebook too) you could win this drawing which I think is called "She Didn't Know He Was Going To Be There" . (I'll stick the name of anyone who leaves a comment in a hat and pick the winner out and contact them for an address to send the drawing to).

On Twitter anyone who tweets a link to this page or to the page on Central Station could win this drawing called "Big Hair" (just mention me @Coll_Ham in the tweet and I'll see it).

I hope this makes sense.

Thanks.

Iris And The Frog Chorus

2012-01-04T19:42:00.000Z

This is a drawing I did as a Christmas present for my friends Anthony and Christine of their daughter Iris. Anthony found some little frogs in his garden so I put some of them in too - next year it'll be unicorns and butterflies. Or dinosaurs.

ArtPistol Christmas PopUp Show

2011-12-08T20:32:00.001Z

Some more of the original drawings I have for sale this weekend at the ArtPistol Christmas PopUp Shop in the Hilton Hotel on the corner of Byres Road and Great Western Road in Glasgow.

ArtPistol Art Gallery Christmas Pop Up Shop

2011-12-06T21:32:00.001Z

I've been working on some pieces for a Christmas Pop Up Shop by ArtPistol in the Hilton Hotel on Great Western Road in Glasgow this weekend.

(I'd previously written something about this last weekend and have now added "doing a blog entry" to the list of things for me not to do when I'm drunk. It was a couple of paragraphs of babble about the "primacy of markmaking" - deleted it as soon as I woke up on Sunday morning!).

It looks like at should be a good show with a lot of great art at affordable prices, so would be a worth a trip to the west end of Glasgow.

A Christmas Carol

2011-12-04T22:41:00.001Z

I went to see the National Theatre Of Scotland's new production of "A Christmas Carol" on Friday and it was really stunning! It was really atmospheric and spooky -actually pretty terrifying a couple of times. It reminded me that had a "tradition" that lasted a few years of illustrating scenes from the story and giving them as christmas cards. Think I'll start it up again this Christmas. This is my last one from a few years ago now.

Six Foot Gallery Christmas Show

2011-11-29T10:30:00.000Z

I've got a couple of drawings for sale in The Six Foot Gallery's Christmas Show. The gallery is located in The Pentagon Centre on Washington Street in Glasgow.

Painting in Winter Exhibition

2011-11-15T20:05:00.000Z

I've got a painting in the Winter Exhibition in PEACOCK VISUAL ARTS - the Centre For Contemporary Art in Aberdeen. I'm going to be taking a trip to Aberdeen next week to have a look at the centre (I haven't been to Aberdeen except passing through in about twenty years) so I can't wait to see it. The exhibition runs from the 12th of November until the 23rd of December.

www.peacockvisualarts.com

Christmas Cards

2011-10-30T10:03:00.001Z

HO HO HO

Well, now that Halloween has almost come and gone I've been thinking about what I might draw for my Christmas Cards this year. I've still got some of the cards I had printed from last year - if anyone wants to get some Christmas Cards at a bargain price, here's your chance!

There are two designs - MORE SPROUTS, ANYONE? and CHERRY CHRISTMAS.

The cards were professionally printed (by a real printing company!) and I was really pleased with the finished product because I think they really captured the rich, vibrant colours of the original drawings.

MORE SPROUTS, ANYONE? opens up to a panoramic spread of sprouts inside with MERRY CHRISTMAS! on the back.

CHERRY CHRISTMAS is blank inside for your message.

Dimensions of front of card - 12 x 12cm.

I'm selling them in packs of 10 (with envelopes) for £5.

Postage is £1 within the UK and £3.50 everywhere else.

You can buy them through paypal (along with a message saying what designs you want) by sending payment to - collham63@googlemail.com

or through my etsy shop www.etsy.com/shop/BurnCentreTime

T.V. Licence

2011-10-26T13:13:00.000+01:00

This is a comic-strip I entered into the 2011 Comica Graphic Fiction Short Story competition.

i've redecorated.

2011-10-26T12:55:00.000+01:00

i've just redecorated a bit round here. and started using one of my paintings as a screensaver on my iPod. here's a screenshot......