This of one of the first pieces of art where I started to develop the style I used later for most of my hand rendered work. The pen work is a bit naive and before I really got the hang of things and I think these are water colours used here. I still have the original piece and I guess it should be in this archive. It was before the Lunasphere record (93-94) but designed for the concept explaining the lunar feature – there is no concept behind the name just what was in the picture. I often give artworks nicknames for my reference and storage.

This is the reissue artwork for Alchemist’s first album and when I was still really learning design.

The cover artwork for Alchemist Organasm CD, I was still at CIT studying design at this point. I did the layout on a fiends computer and the ones at school.

This is the promo poster design for the CD release, the band did some large prints that looked great.

This is the artwork to our 1998 EP release “Eve of the War” which featured a cover version of the same same from from Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds”. It was my first digital layout so I put a lot of time into the hand rendered base artwork then overlaid the text, effects and lasers – Pretty sloppy work when I look back but I always liked the artwork underneath. This was a year before I started studying Multimedia and I have to thank my friend Choc for letting me use his equipment and giving me a pretty good overview of Photoshop and Illustrator. This was an extremely popular record for us, it was an EP so low price and I was told the highest selling local release for ever for Impact Records (Canberra’s premier Record shop in the 80′s and 90′s). I gained a lot of confidence from completing layout and it really spurred my desire to pursue graphic design seriously. We had a big deadline and worked a couple of days right through to finish it off beforehand.

Final cover art for Alchemist Spiritech. It is my hand rendered artwork with a colour treatment, the original colours are much more earthy. Probably our most popular record and very exciting era for the band.

These are some stills and 2 videos from Alice Coopers “Theatre of Death” show from 2009, the first is the intro Schools Out and then the bit they cut his head off! pretty cool, I forget the name of that song. From the Canberra Show at the Royal Theatre. Pretty entertaining. It was the first time I have seen Alice and it was really entertaining.

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Alchemist – Lunasphere 20cm x 20cm
Watercolour, guage, pen on paper

This artwork was done a very long time ago and was one of my first attempts at this sort of art. The art is water colour and pens, the moon is cut out of a magazine and stuck in top (pre-photoshop) You can see the dodgy cut out in the printed CD version.

I’m starting this photo journal category to encourage me to go out and take more interesting photos. I intend to post as often as possible to start exploring photography more creatively with the aim of producing a wide body of interesting and varied work. My main camera is a Pentax K100D and I often use a Canon G9.