PABLO PICANTE!

Towards the end of last year I worked on this really exciting secret project. I was commissioned to design this Mexican wrestler character among other things. It took many goes to find the right tone and style for him. We tried many versions of him but in the end we went for a stocky 50's type wrestler which I think really suits the whole concept of what is to come. I'll post a step by step of all the different characters in a few weeks when it all goes live.

Good luck Pablo!

Cheap as Chips Two

The second Cheap as Chips opens tomorrow in the very handsome Circus in Powerscourt Townhouse tomorrow evening from 5pm. There will be tons of grat work on show for sale and everything will be less than €99.99 so get in early to get a bargain.

The theme was 'Circus'. Here's my 4 'beauts'. I'm not Coulrophobic but there's something about clowns that bug me. This is four of them on the slab. They'll be on sale for €60 Euro each. Acrylic and markers on canvas.

Lots more details here.

Happy New Year and all that!

Can't believe it's nearly a month since I posted here. I've was really busy and then astoundingly lazy and have only got my head back into work mode.

I saw Let The Right One In over Christmas which has to be one the best films I've seen in years. We were out for out for a snow walk last week when I spotted this through some gates which really reminded me of the place where the kids live. Such a quiet, creepy but somehow really nostalgic atmosphere. Oh and there happened to be a Beast strolling by... can you hear the crunch crunch?

I'll get back into posting all proper like this week.

Christmas Art Fair Thing Part Deux!

Thanks to everyone who dropped in to the studio last Saturday it was a really fun day!

I have had a bunch of emails and texts from people asking if I will be opening again before Christmas as they couldn't make it so I have decided to leave everything set up and open the studio this Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 2-6pm (17th, 18th, 19th December).

I have run out of mulled wine but will be serving regular wine and mince pies and there'll be more seasonal music to dance to.

The Details again:

Address: 49 Pleasants Street, Side Door, Dublin 8 - click here for MAP
Date: Saturday 12th of December 2009
Time: 12pm-7pm
Contact: chrispjudge@gmail.com

Paintings from €50
Prints from €10
Postcard/poster set from €20
T-Shirts from €10

Christmas Card

Illustration for Thinkhouse PR Christmas card. This is the second outing for the Worm Scarf

Christmas Art Fair Thing in My Studio!

I have decided to turn my humble cave-like studio into a mini Christmas art fair thing on Saturday the 12th of December.

I will be selling lots of original paintings for very reasonable prices, as well as prints, postcard sets, T-shirts and other bits and bobs.

There will be delicious complementary mulled wine and mince pies served as well as seasonal music to dance to.

If you're in the area drop in for some Christmas Cheer!

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The Details:

Address: 49 Pleasants Street, Side Door, Dublin 8 - click here for MAP
Date: Saturday 12th of December 2009
Time: 12pm-7pm
Contact: chrispjudge@gmail.com

Paintings from €50
Prints from €10
Postcard/poster set from €20
T-Shirts from €15

Just what I always wanted...

The beautiful gentlemen from the Comic Cast have organised a great charity exhibition as part of this years Bring the Toys night in the Twisted Pepper in the 12th. Great bargains by brilliant comic nerds and all for a good cause.

As the lads put it:

Comic Cast Present...
"Just What I Always Wanted" Comic Gallery
feat. Chris Judge, Gerry Hunt, Bob Byrne, Katie Blackwood & more.
+ live music from Big Monster Love, Lauren Guillery and DJ Nialler9 (more acts TBA)

**All comic pieces will be auctioned off & proceeds donated to the cause**

Check out the amaaaaazing poster by the V. Talented Phil Barrett.

Bernard Shaw winter Exhibition

I have four big paintings for sale at this years Bernard Shaw Winter Exhibition each going for the princely sum of €120! There'll be a ton of great work at the show so stick your head in if you're up that way.

Opens Friday 4th December 7:30pm in the Bernard Shaw on Richmond Street.

The Market in Kilkenny.

The Arts Office in Kilkenny is hosting a fantastic Christmas market this Saturday and I will have several small works of art for sale in it. Click the poster for more in info!

The lovely poster is by my good pal Ale Mercado who is one of Irelands greatest living Spanish/Kilkenny illustrators.

10 x 10 show in Galway.

I was honoured to be asked to be one of 10 artists asked to be asked to submit 10 paintings to the 10 x 10 show in Galway's White Room gallery this Friday. That's one of my ten there. Forgot to take photos of the rest of them as usual.

"The idea behind this exhibition is to have 10 artists submit 10 pieces of art that would measure 10 inches by 10 inches. Each piece would need to be for sale and be priced at €100 or under."

Drop in if you're in the are I believe there is lots of amazing work.

More info here.

Galway Heineken UV Madness

Here's a coupla dodgy shots from the Galway Heineken Expression night last Friday night in Karma nightclub. Artist included the mighty Des, Steve Simpson, Gaetan Billault and BRENB. We were drawing with UV markers on perspex for the evening. Great fun had by all.

Dublin Flea Market

I was really excited to be asked to create a new poster for the November Dublin Flea Market which takes place every month in The Coop, Newmarket, Dublin 8. It's a fantastical market described by the lovely people who run it as "a bizarre bazaar of vintage clothing, bric-a-brac and what nots in Dublin's city centre".

The poster will be on sale for 5 eurons at the market alongside all of the other amazing posters created over the last year. It's a smashing way to spend a wintery Sunday so stick your head in if your nearby.

Spawn

I downloaded a free app for the iPhone called Spawn which allows you make amazing fluid weirdness. I captured a few of them and put eyes on them. Here's one of the blighters. Interesting.

Cthulhu?

Warlords Of Pez Cover Image

I was very excited to get an email from my least favourite Irish band Warlords Of Pez to draw on the front of their Lyrics Monkey pad on Halloween night. The budget was €8000 so I jumped at the chance to do it. However, at the end of the night when I opened the envelope all I found was €8 and a voucher for minus €200 for Arnotts. I have to go in and work there for the weekend to pay them back. Might see you in the Tommy Hilfiger section...

Cruel.

Cork Heineken Expression

I'm cussing that I didn't bring my good camera to The Cork Heineken Expression event last weekend. This is the only only decent shot I got of the mirror I drew all over. The walls looked amazing, covered in florescent drawing by Ireland's finest. I'll post proper shots of everyone's work here when I get the official shots.

Thanks to the Small Print boyos for a brilliant night.