“Thankyou Mommy!” “My pleasure honey. Remember, we’re doing this to save Metal!” I drew this image in response to the news that Metallica’s James Hetfield would be narrating a TV show called ‘The Hunt’, about a party of big game hunters going to Alaska to, well, kill bears. Funnily enough, I’m not dead keen … More James Hetfield – Hunting Trophy
I’ve been back down the cellar again over the last few days and made a start on chiselling the wood into shape. First though, I drew the outline of my foot onto graph paper using a flat pencil, with my heel propped as close to 5cm as I could get it, and adjusted it to … More KJ004 Shoemaking Part 2
Hey-y-y, finally, I have gotten round to doing the first post on my Making Nice Things blog 🙂 Welcome to JK Mullett/Keira James’ Art and Craft. There is much more to come. I’m just starting work on my fourth pair of handmade shoes. At some point, I’ll post images of my first three pairs, but … More KJ004 – Handmade Shoes, mark 4
Since the IX project finished, I’ve been sorting out promotional bits and web stuff – making cards, banners, avatars and all those things. Here’s a summary of the New Things: Grindstone Art is now on Twitter:Â https://twitter.com/GrindstoneArt / @GrindstoneArt Here’s my new avatar for Twitter & DeviantArt, which I’ll also use when I get round to … More New Things, Nov 2013
Hamerex’ album ‘IX’ is printed and will be released this week! Guitarist Steve said: “Who likes the look of the digipak? It was designed by James Sixtyeight with his paintings and photography with my mum taking the band photo which isn’t visible in the picture. You can pre-order the album for £7 with £1.50 postage … More ‘IX’ finished and available soon!
I’ve taken the best bits of my last set of logo designs and refined them considerably, so I now have a halfway-decent logo for putting on pocket clutter. Here are the latest designs, and the 2-colour vector logo I’ll be using for publicity material for the time being. 1: A development of the first painted … More Grindstone Art logos (part 2)
Reight. if I’m going to do Grindstone Art properly, I’ll need publicity material – contact cards, flyers/leaflets, web banners and all sorts of fancy stuff. With that in mind, I’ve been working for much of the last week on a logo design I can adapt for any medium. Here are my finished and painted draft … More Grindstone Art draft logos (part 1)
Here are the final drafts for the ‘IX’ album cover, completed a few weeks ago now. I’m drawing towards the end of this project and getting quite excited about the end product. I’ll be starting work on the inlay very soon, and working on some Grindstone Art promotional material in between, such as a pretty … More Hamerex ‘IX’ Cover Concepts Part 3
Here’s my second set of draft images for Hamerex’ forthcoming album, simply titled IX. These are in a different format than the previous images as they’re designed for a much wider layout. It’s quite liberating to work in such a wide landscape format as you can explore detail to the right and left of the … More Hamerex ‘IX’ cover concepts part 2
The first colour concept image for Hamerex’ forthcoming album. The basic theme of the cover is Wakefield, West Yorkshire (the band’s home town) as Hell. The album has a recurring influence from Dante’s Inferno, one of my favourite books. I’ve been through Wakefield many times on the train so have mainly seen it from the … More Hamerex: ‘IX’ cover concepts
