Free Print Giveaway- FREEFALL

I've just announced a Free Print Giveaway on my Facebook site of my new print Freefall, released this Sunday at 9PM GMT in my Shop.

Here's the link on how to be in the Competition 

Bungle Art Facebook Page 

The Face of Authority-The Black Duke V Bungle

In early September I had a message from a project called DuDug. They asked me if I would be interested in helping them out with their project and if I’d be interested in painting a mural on a ship, not your everyday request! This is the picture they sent me.

They sent some background info and so I did some digging for myself. It made for interesting reading.

In 1979 the owner of the Duke of Lancaster created "The Funship” it was ahead of its time and became a modern leisure complex with bars, hotel accommodation, conference suites, arcade machines, restaurants, shops etc, etc. It traded in this capacity very successfully for almost 6 years but as soon as the ship arrived the venture was suddenly attacked by the council and it ended up in the high court.

Every time the owners beat the council in court they changed tact and attacked them on something else. In the end they closed the doors in 1990 and locked the ship up. She’s a time capsule. 

The aim of the project it to open up the Black Duke as an open-air Gallery. The aim is for the ship to be covered in unique pieces of art and open up the ship once again piece by piece, room by room to the general public. Artists have already started making their mark.

Kiwie has already done two pieces on the ship

 And so have the Cream Soda Crew

This gave me a new problem- how to paint a 12 meter high mural? quite a task for a stencil artist. I did the design of the piece and totted up the different colours involved- 8 which made it even less feasible to stencil.

The difficulty I could see would be keeping the scale and proportion of the image right so last Thursday 27^th in the evening I got started. 

I used a projector to size the image on the ship and get the outline shape and proportions drawn up. This in itself was a tricky task, due to the cold and the damp the platform the projector was on kept moving down so the majority of the lines where out by a considerable amount. In the end I decided to draw the black areas the best I could and hand paint the rest of the image from the reference photographs I’d brought with me- essentially doing it by eye to match the picture. 

I had to wait until daylight for this on the Friday and so pressed on as best I could.

It was definitely a huge change from stencil painting but one which I thoroughly enjoyed. It was great to meet a group of people who are so passionate about not only the ship but the artwork too.

I hope with continued support from other artists and the public that the project is the success it deserves to be and I’ll continue to help where I can. Here's the final image.

Please help support the project.www.dudug.co.uk

Link to the mural photoset http://www.flickr.com/photos/bungleart/sets/72157631669730535/

Work now Available in Amsterdam- Go Gallery

I had the pleasure of going to see the guys at Go Gallery in the heart of Amsterdam and am now happy to announce they have 3 hand painted editions on paper 50 x 70cm of only 10 available. 

Here's the link to their site http://www.gogallery.nl/1295-2/ and the editions below.

Sounds like a great excuse to visit an amazing city!

Cheers
PB

Upfest 2012- Pull Better late than never

I've just noticed I never posted the piece I did at Upfest back in June, oops. I'll get the hang of blogging one day, probably won't be a Monday tho.

Remember to register to the newsletter, there'll be one going out later this week and I'll be giving away something tasty on paper (it won't be fish n chips sorry)

Cheers!
PB

Half Cut Exhibition

Thanks to the Upfest Gallery for hosting “Half Cut” Exhibition featuring myself, AP and Matti here in my hometown of Bristol. 

The work went down a treat and was great fun getting a body of work together with two like minded stencil boys! The pictures are up on Flickr now, here’s the direct link to the site http://www.flickr.com/photos/bungleart/sets/72157631505614860/

LOTA-  Bungle from the Half Cut Exhibition September 2012

Morning All :-)

I realise a Blog update is long overdue- 

I never seem to find the time which is the worst excuse in the world, so here goes. Well I had a successful Upfest back at the beginning of June I had a great time on the Saturday, I painted next to Snik, Guy Denning and the Essex Rockerz so I was very happy to be alongside the “best of the best”. I painted this image at just over 2.5 metres wide probably the biggest and certainly the most detailed stencil to-date. I didn’t get to see some of the other guys painting so as usual had to look at snaps taken by the masses of keen photographers who were there. Props go out to MykGarton for an exceptional set of photos on his Flickr site.

I was also asked to paint an image of the Queen sat in the Upfest train- the most amazing live train paint job you’ve seen here's the timelapse video.

DETAILS TO FOLLOW

I’ve been asked to take some work to a gallery in Amsterdam (which I’ve now done) and I’ve been invited to a group show at the beginning of September. There’s also a new release scheduled for this month of one of my prints, commissioned through Epoch Gallery. 

So there’s plenty to do I’ll upload some pictures and more links & details very soon and if you want to keep updated please don’t forget to register on the website. www.thebungle.co.uk  Cheers!

New Ltd Edition Print - On sale this month

I've been commissioned to produce a Limited print run for a gallery in Japan. The prints are being finished off this week and once they're shipped I'll give you the website link and an email address to contact the gallery before the release date.. Watch this space for more info. The guys on the mailing list will be getting the heads up first so please register here

It never rains but it pours

Evening all, yet again I've forgotten how long it was since I updated this blog... a long time ago and for that all i can say is I've been a bit busy away from the laptop. No excuse but its the truth so here goes an attempt at an update over the next few days.


All went well at Mindshare, Tarantino and Hitchcock have gone down a storm so they've commissioned me to go back this year and paint 4 more walls so watch this space for updates. I'm painting 2 pieces in March and the others at a date TBC


In the meantime you can see the video of the days painting here:

16th October Diego and the Dissidents- Launch Party pics

Thanks to all those of you who came along to the Big Chill Bar on Saturday, we had a great time. Here are a few flics from the night :)

Private

Is taking shape now- here's a few photos of the first test spray- I'll add more pictures when it hits a canvas- Click the picture to zoooooom :) 

Don't forget to subscribe! 
Anything else please email me bungleart@gmail.com

Express Delivery to the Wilder Gallery

I delivered four canvases to Steve at the Wilder Gallery yesterday www.wildergallery.com. Gold Save the Queen- Flock, You Can't buy me!- Red, Generation X Pt1 and Celebracy. You can see more pictures at my flickr site, the link is on the right of the page.

My next piece is untitled at the moment but does involve a very large hat- no not a sombrero- and an element of tabloid, I'll keep you posted.

Celebracy

Hey there I've just finished this canvas. I think I'm going to lay-off super fine detail for a while! It's on my Flickr page so please check it out. I'll be adding some more shots of how I made it soon.

Acrylics & MTN94
Size 50x70cm

Email me if you're interested- thanks for looking and don't forget to subscribe

Bungleart@gmail.com

UPFEST Party in the Park- Melksham July17th

OK I think we're up-to-date now, on Saturday I popped down to Party in the Park In Melksham for a day of painting in the lovely Wiltshire Summer. 

The highlights were the wind, a Police helicopter landing 200metres away from us and blowing everything away, the sunshine (eventually) and getting to paint alongside Elmo, Ian Phenna, Ian Walker and Steve Edwards. I had a great time! The beer tent was close and we even got invaded by Titan the Robot :-) . 
Thanks again to Steve and the UPFEST crew for making it a great day! Here's the UPFEST Photos.

My Set from the day

Diego & the Dissidents work

Diego has asked me to help him out and do some press shot artwork and photography for his latest LP which is due for release in the UK in September on Jack To Phono & Quite Scientific (North America). Here's their MySpace Page check it out.

Coming soon is the new single by Diego & the Dissidents called the Contaminated Waters EP. It features a track that was used on the Banksy film " Exit Through the Giftshop." The project is the brainchild of Scott Hendy of Boca 45/ Malakai and Dynamo Productions fame...

I'll pop the work on here once it's been approved for press release :-)

VW Nice Ghia!

I've been working on incorporating the VW logo in a design- more retro work! I guess I'm just in that mood. I love the classic lines of the Karmann Ghia Cabrio so here's the end result.

The Playing Card Project- Final Submitted Design (hopefully)

OK I'm trying to do this in the right order :-)

I've submitted my final design to the guys and it's flown over to the US for approval so here it is--- fingers crossed it's up to scratch. It looks like the cardproject http://cardproject.webs.com/ is gaining momentum as more artists sign-up to contribute to this awesome project.

Continued respect goes out again to Zeezee and SgLoki for their efforts and co-ordination trickery!
 

The Playing Card Project - 52 Artists Bungle=Queen of Hearts

'For the approval of the discriminating artist and connoisseur of art, fifty-four separate and distinct art studies.

These are an example of modern art at it's finest and should prove invaluable in discussions, forums, etc'

The 'Playing Card Project', as it has come to be known (for want of a better name), is a non profit grass roots collaborative effort between more than 52 artists guided by Zeezee (UK), sgLoki (USA) and itinerant helpers.

The aim is to produce a 'family friendly' deck of Poker style playing cards where more than 52 artists produce one assigned card each, pool their resources to pay for the production and shipping of 1000 decks and, share the glory and spoils between themselves.

Zeezee and sgLoki have compiled a website dedicated to the project where you will find answers regarding this collaboration, it's history, processes, membership, schedule, forum and photo gallery-

http://cardproject.webs.com/

As part of this collaborative project I've been assigned the Queen of Hearts card to design and my four week deadline clock has started. A big thank you to Zeezee and sgLoki for taking on this epic project.

Please look at their website to see the cards designed so far and check back for updates on designs and the artists involved.

This is the second deck of street art cards ever to be made and shipped globally so I'll keep you updated as things near completion- let get started :-)

Bruce Lee & Manga Fighting Girl - Martial Arts Gym

I was asked to come up with some ideas for a local martial arts and fitness centre wall in Totterdown. The owner likes Bruce Lee so after working up a few ideas we did things a bit retro!

The Bruce Lee wall space is 2 metres tall and 3.5 wide painted using Spanish MTN. I painted the manga fighting girl straight onto the wall with acrylics as it’s a one off. Both are pretty big- looking forward to seeing the place when the refurbishment is finished.

Photos are up on Flickr. B

Frame & Fortune

I've now finished Frame & Fortune and will be releasing the image after UPFEST'10 from my store. I'll see you at the Tabacco Factory on Saturday :-)

Welcome

Hello and welcome to my Blog- I've finally grabbed the technology with both hands and decided to send out updates showing what I'm doing and where I'm at. Please Subscribe for future news and images as and when I post. In the meantime I'll see you at Upfest'10 :-)