Progress shot as I was finishing up “Septagram” for...

Progress shot as I was finishing up “Septagram” for the 7th anniversary show at @phoneboothgallery opening tonight!

Please email phoneboothgallery@gmail for availability.

Thanks to @jordankie and @moss_von_faustenberg For collaborating. Hope those of you attending have a good night!#phoneboothgallery #rodluff #artistsoninstagram #painting #artgallery #longbeach

@темы: painting, rodluff, phoneboothgallery, artistsoninstagram, artgallery, longbeach

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Nice to see some opening photos for the Moleskine Project IV...

Nice to see some opening photos for the Moleskine Project IV opening on Saturday night at @hashimotocontemporary in SF. Thanks to everyone in attendance and I’ll let you guys know when it’s online soon!

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supersonicart: Moleskine Project IV at Hashimoto...

Stella Im Hultberg


Ryan Lee


Adam Caldwell


Coro


JAW Cooper


Jeremy Enecio


Reinier Gamboa


DALeast


N C Winters

supersonicart:

Moleskine Project IV at Hashimoto Contemporary.

Opening this Saturday, April 4th, 2015 at Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco, California is the 4th annual group show, “Moleskine Project IV.” Curated by artist Rodrigo Luff and Hashimoto owner Ken Harman the show features an absolutely outstanding roster of artists who have all created stunning new works within the pages of a Moleskine notebook.

The artists above are: Stella Im Hultberg, Ryan Lee, Adam Caldwell, Coro, Jaw Cooper, Jeremy Enecio, Reinier Gamboa, DALeast and N.C. Winters.

Continue below to see even more of the epic artworks and if you’re in San Francisco be sure to stop by.

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Thanks so much Zach Tutor of the ever inspiring Supersonic Art for the kind words and support in featuring the Moleskine Project IV, an exhibition I co-curated at Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco.

@темы: rodluff, hashimotocontemporary

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tamping!

My new zine, The Tamp, now has an advert. yes, I've hit the big time. This minature zine is not only a tiny newspaper but also a puzzle. The puzzle is putting the thing together and specifically getting the pages in the correct order. It'll only make sense if they are in the right order. I say 'make sense'...

The newspaper has a tiny comic strip, a tiny film and book review, tiny classified ads. So, as the man says 'READ ALL ABOUT IT!'. Limited print run, get your copy HERE.

@темы: miniature, copyright, Etsy, for sale, zine, AJ, illustration, illustrator, andrea joseph, zines, zines by Andrea Joseph, zine making, The Tamp, zinester, illustrated zine, newspaper

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getting with the programme

So, I'll be honest, this is basically a test post. For a long time my blog has just been chugging along. There was a time, way back when, when I would blog, religiously, a few times a week. Then social media happened.

Like many people, I suppose, I started 'blogging' there. It seemed easier. I'm not really interested in sharing the ins and outs of my life online, or social media, but sharing my artwork through those platforms seemed to make sense. Blogging suddenly seemed like much more of an effort. I mean you had to switch in the laptop and all that palaver. 

I blamed blogging, and blogs, for that - for being behind the times. Not catching up with social media. But it was me that was behind the times and not keeping up with the technology. It hadn't even dawned in me to download the Blogger app. But now I have. 

I took these photos on Friday. My friend and I, Kate of Emily Pickle design (haven't worked out if it's possible to add a link when blogging on your phone. Anyone?) took her 'pencil case' out to the pub to draw. Her pencil case/make up bag is filled with all sorts of goodies I'd never have dreamtof using to draw with. The drawing above is made with glitter mascara, liquid eyeliner and Christmas wrapping tapes amongst other things. I loved experimenting with all this stuff. I'll never look at an old eyeliner in the same way again.

Right, I'm going to put the laptop on to see how this worked out....

@темы: make up, eyeliner, mascara, drawing, AJ, illustrator, andrea joseph, sketchcrawl, Buxton, urban sketching, sketchbook, pubcrawl, Urban Sketchers, illustrator for hire, pub

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Moleskine Project IV is opening tonight at Hashimoto...

Moleskine Project IV is opening tonight at Hashimoto Contemporary! Big thanks to all the artists and to co-curator Ken Harman and the folks at the gallery for their hard work in making this happen.

@темы: rodluff, themoleskineproject

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Found this old photo I took in 2010 of a moleskine painting for...

Found this old photo I took in 2010 of a moleskine painting for my ’11 show at @spoke_art really had fun with that one. #tbt

@темы: tbt

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Mailed off this lil painting featuring a kookaburra today to its...

Mailed off this lil painting featuring a kookaburra today to its new home! Have a few other originals at rodluff.storenvy.com cheers! #rodluff #kookaburra #artistsoninstagram

@темы: rodluff, kookaburra, artistsoninstagram

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Here’s my second piece for the fourth annual Moleskine...

Here’s my second piece for the fourth annual Moleskine Project group show, opening this Saturday night at @hashimotocontemporary in San Francisco.
I enjoyed painting the various shapes and colours of the leaves, particularly the dead ones, which were the most interesting to paint. Big thanks to @moss_von_faustenberg and @jordankie for their collaboration! If you would like to receive an advance collectors preview before the show opens, please email the gallery at hashimotocontemporary (at) gmail.
The Moleskine Project is an annual group show I’m co-curating with gallery director Ken Harman, the exhibit will be on view until Saturday, April 25th.

@темы: painting, moleskine, illustration, themoleskineproject, sketchbook, hashimotocontemporary, artistsoninstagram, artgallery, sanfrancisco

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Detail from a recent drawing #rodluff #artistsoninstagram...

Detail from a recent drawing #rodluff #artistsoninstagram #drawing

@темы: drawing, rodluff, artistsoninstagram

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Closer look at the hand studies from last week, oils on...

Closer look at the hand studies from last week, oils on moleskine. Used 3-4 coats of GAC 100 by golden but you can also use different types of gesso to prime the paper. #rodluff #moleskine

@темы: moleskine, rodluff

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Preview of this painting for the Moleskine Project IV, opening...

Preview of this painting for the Moleskine Project IV, opening April 4th at @hashimotocontemporary gallery, San Francisco. Many thanks to @moss_von_faustenberg and @jordankie for their collaboration! Will post up the final artwork soon! #rodluff #themoleskineproject #hashimotocontemporary

@темы: rodluff, themoleskineproject, hashimotocontemporary

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Museum Week

 If you've followed my work in the past, you may know that a favourite subject matter of mine is collections. I've drawn collections of keys, badges, matchboxes, pens, buttons and souvenirs to name but a few. I've drawn souvenirs of all kinds, like in the drawing above, which comes from an entire sketchbook of collection drawings. Well, recently I've been commissioned by Greater Manchester Museum Group to create four drawings based on their collections from four of their museums.

I'm so thrilled about getting this gig. I've always wanted to draw museums' collections. I used to dream that I'd get a job cataloguing them all. It would be my perfect job, but unfortunately photography happened and then computers and so the call for museum collection illustrators and cataloguers waned. But, anyway, now I have the opportunity. My problem is how do you make just one drawing from each museum?

Well, firstly we narrowed it down by choosing the four museums from Greater Manchester's 21 venues. The first was Stockport's Hat Works Museum which is the building in the picture above. I already knew of, and love, this place. In fact we did a sketchcrawl there just a few weeks ago. It contains everything you need to know about hat making and the most amazing hats. But, not only do I get to visit the museums, but I also got the opportunity of looking through their archives and storage. This has been such a privilege, rooting through the stores, holding history (and antique top hats) in my hands.

 The second collection I'll be drawing is the Egyptology collection from Bolton Museum. They have an impressive collection of  Egyptology artefacts. Unfortunately, I didn't get the best photos from that trip but I did get a sketch of a dinosaur before I left the building!

 My third collection is from the natural History collections of Oldham Museum. I spent the best few hours with the curator, down in the cellar archives, surrounded by so many treasures of nature, whilst being educated on bugs and butterflies and birds nest. Actually, that too has been another joy and privilege of this whole experience, learning about, not just Natural History, the social history of this region and about the collectors. Learning from passionate people.

Again, I managed to sneak some sketching in before leaving the building. Well, what else do you do when waiting for the rain to stop?

 Today was my final visit and final collection. For that I went to the Museum of the Manchester Regiment to view their medal collections. I wasn't quite prepared by how touching an experience that would be. I shed a tear or two reading the heart breaking stories of the soldiers who lost their lives.

So, that's what I'm working on right now. My drawings were commissioned by the Museum Group for a new online shop they are building, which is coming soon. Very soon. Which reminds me, I don't have time to sit here blogging, I've got (a lot of) work to do.....

 

Oh, and unbeknownst to me, and quite coincidentally, this is actually Museum Week 2015. So Happy #MuseumWeek one and all. Go visit a museum because museums are great places. 

@темы: collections, museum, collection, Ashton, AJ, andrea joseph, Andrea Joseph drawings, sketchbook, Stockport, event sketcher, #MuseumWeek, Bolton, Hat Works, Oldham

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Some awesome ballpoint pen work from the great @chamo_san...

Some awesome ballpoint pen work from the great @chamo_san It’s for the Moleskine Project IV, an exhibition I’m co-curating with @le_ken_fraiche opening soon at @hashimotocontemporary gallery on April 4th #hashimotocontemporary #themoleskineproject

@темы: themoleskineproject, hashimotocontemporary

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something old something new something borowed...

I've a few original artworks, in my Etsy shop, going cheap.

The drawing above is brand new. I did it while waiting in the car park, in a local village, Hayfield, here in Derbyshire. It's the village where the BBC production called, funnily enough, The Village is filmed. Throughout the filming Hayfield was transformed into a village from 1914. Which basically means that they hardly did anything to it. It really hasn't changed much in a hundred years. 

Below, is an oldie.

You can find them both, and some others, HERE.

@темы: Etsy, converse, for sale, original drawing, AJ, illustration, andrea joseph, Andrea Joseph drawings, Derbyshire, pen drawing, blue pen, Hayfield, chimneys, chucks

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one of the issues of working with marker pens

That is all.

Bugger.

@темы: journal, pen, drawings, AJ, bike, illustration, illustrator, andrea joseph, Andrea Joseph drawings, sketchcrawl, pen drawing, sketchbook, Urban Sketchers Yorkshire, illustrator for hire, marker pens, bicycle

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a bit about creating poster artwork

Amongst all the other illustration work I do, I also co-run Dr Sketchy Sheffield and, so, being the sketching half of the team (my co-running partner is from the performance arts), I create the poster artwork. It's one of my favourite things to illustrate. Because it makes me feel closer to the poster artists, from days gone by, who's work I adore. I wish there were more call for poster artists. These days it's all done digitally so I like to buck that trend with purely illustrated posters (and I wouldn't have a clue how to do it digitally).

Now once we've set our theme for our Dr Sketchy event the idea for the poster image pretty much comes to me straight away. Sometimes without even having to think about it. Really, it's just there. I see it - the whole poster - fully formed. I then just need to put it onto paper.

Our next event (next Saturday, at the Greystones, Sheffield!) will be a celebration of dance. We have performers from different genres of dance modelling and, erm, dancing for us. We have a belly dancer, a breakdancer, a bhangra dancer amongst others. So, already I knew I had to get that info into the drawing. The first and original thought was of the kind of drawing in the image above. I think it's important to go with that initial idea if it has presented itself to you. I love those 'consequences' drawings. I've heard them called other things and somebody once told me that they were known as 'exquisite cadaver' drawings. I think that's such a great name, which conjures up all sorts of weird and wonderful images, so I'll be sticking with that.

I made a few exquisite cadaver sketches, like the one above, to try it out. To see if it worked. I'll be honest with you, I think the trial run above is still my favourite. I guess that's because it was the most spontaneous. Then when I'd got one that I felt would work as a poster image I sketched it out onto a 'proper' bit of paper. I always add the image first, leaving room for the text. Sometimes I will play around with where I want to place the image. I did with this one - I tried her on both sides of the page and central before settling on this composition.

For the text I always quickly research (Google) posters or fonts until I find something that fits. For example, I'll Google 'Bollywood poster fonts' or some such thing. This one was a combination of various fonts because of the variety of dance genres. When I find a font I like I loosely copy it. I don't measure out the letters, nothing technical happens, I just copy it by eye (is that even a saying? It looks odd now it's typed out). I don't want it to look exactly like the fonts I find. I want it to be my own version of them.

Anyway, that's a little (ish) explanation of how I create my posters. Now anyone want a poster illustration? I'm for hire. I'm always for hire.

 

@темы: poster, dance, how to draw, Sheffield, illustration, illustrator, andrea joseph, Dr Sketchy Sheffield, Dr Sketchy, Andrea Joseph fonts, poster artist, illustrator for hire, Andrea Joseph posters

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These newly framed drawings are now available on the store at...

These newly framed drawings are now available on the store at www.rodluff.storenvy.com if you’re interested.

Thanks!

@темы: drawing, rodluff, originals

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it's that time again

Sorry to have to pedal my wares here, guys. But, believe me, I have to.

There is free postage on a Bumper Pack of goodies on Etsy until Sunday. The Bumper Pack includes my book, 5 zines, badges, tote bag, postcards and stickers. Get yours HERE.

@темы: Etsy, for sale, bags, zine, book, AJ, illustration, badges, illustrator, andrea joseph, zines, Andrea's book, art zine, ballpoint pen art, bumper pack, zinester, bag

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Final scan of ‘Septagram’ for the 7th Anniversary show at...

Final scan of ‘Septagram’ for the 7th Anniversary show at phoneboothgallery opening soon on April 11th. It’s oils on paper, 8” x 8”. Warm kind thanks to @moss_von_faustenberg and @jordankie for their help in photography and modeling. Hope you can check out the show if you’re nearby. Cheers! #phoneboothgallery #rodluff#painting