Two words... Dinosaurs and Pirates.

A stormy sea, some pirates, and their T-Rex captive in tow. This one's a wee mini painting. Mug-coaster size. Click to see the yellows of his eyes. "Monstrous Booty"

The following two are bigger. Same size as a plate-placemat. 

"Eat, Prey, Love, and Dinosaurs"

"Who Lives In A Pirate Ship, Under The Sea?"

Moa Point, or nearabouts

A new painting, and in-progress shot. Moa Point, South Coast of Wellington.
As always, you can click them for a closer look-see.

Happy D Day!

It's Daddy day in NZ.
Go enjoy some eggs, and an old movie with pirates and/or stop-motion dinosaurs.

Back from old Blighty

Dittybox will be open again today (Wed 25th), from 11am-5.30pm. New europe and south coast paintings, prints, and gifts will be appearing over the coming weeks and months. I hope to see you in-gallery.

Wednesday-Friday

11am-5.30pm

Saturday/Sunday

11am-4pm

Closed for FIVE WEEKS! Le choice

Right, dittybox will be closed for the next five weeks, so all enquiries should go to me,
gavin@dittybox.co.nz

I'll be drawing and painting lots in the interim, and will open again with new work on Wednesday the 24th 25th of July.

See you in the future.

eyepoo...

This blog is for stuff done from/for dittybox, my gallery shop in Island Bay, so I haven't been posting unrelated illustration work. I lost my old illustration blogs in a google name-change, but have recycled one to start loading recent non-dittybox work into...
eyepoo.blogspot.com

Go have a looksee if you wantsy...

Printsipality

A couple of brand new giclée prints in store, released during the Monstrous Exhibition Of Exhibitionist Monsters (and pirates too!). Click 'em for a closer look-see.

"Te Taniwha O Taputeranga" (the monster/taniwha of Island Bay).  

Edition of 50, on 310gsm German Etching paper

 "Mooned"

Edition of 50, on 310gsm German Etching paper

Sneak peek

A painting in the Monstrous Exhibition Of Exhibitionist Monsters, starting Sat 14th April (see previous post below).

There Will Be Marmite!

MONSTROUS EXHIBITION OF EXHIBITIONIST MONSTERS!
Not just monsters, but PIRATES too! You are cordially invited to drink some cordial (or wine) and gobble some cookies at dittybox gallery, to celebrate the completion of a plague of monstrous paintings. 

Some things you may see... Pirates and monsters (aforementioned), dinosaurs, the moon, space ships, squids, tattooed fish, volcanoes, a desert island, a gorilla, south-coast landscapes, and... drum roll... MARMITE ON CRACKERS! First come first served.


HERE's the facebook page

Totes

Each purchase of a Tote Bag now comes with a free hand-painted Gift Card (usually four bucks bro). There's a bunch to chose from, and if none of them take your fancy, you can make a request.

If you just want the bag for yourself, you can still have the gift card and I dare you to give it to a complete stranger, or the mayor, or a pirate.

Another day, another can

Snug as a bum in a can.

I've had a stack of crushed cans tucked away in a draw for years, waiting for a purpose. They're all roadkill, having been nicely flattened by oblivious drivers, and I figured they could be reincarnated as painting surfaces, or coasters, or something. So finally on Sunday I painted a face on one, with a gaping mouth where the drinking hole was. Then I decided to do lots more.

Here's the first four...

Greeting Cards in, Calendars out.

Sold out of Wall Planners, but in their place there's now individually hand-painted cards. Also Tote Bags, the old faithful tea towels, and new artworks.

Totally Totes

Island Bay Tote Bags in store, and at the Day In The Bay market (sunday 12th, Island Bay). $20 during the festival (11th-19th Feb), and $30 thereafter.

100% tough, natural, unbleached cotton. Not like on of those weak, sissy bags with corporate advertising on the side. This one's for heavy duty vegetables.

In other news... A pretty little beasty came in to dittybox and displayed itself in the window. Beautiful.

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The NOTHING is slowly taking over my blogs. I made the mistake of deleting my old admin account, where the images were stored, so the bloggerbeast is slowly eating everything up. I'll either fix it, repost everything, or delete it all and start anew. Stay posted for more nothing.

when pencils fail, use paint.

w.i.p

a few doodles which will one day soon be paintings.

coming soon, to a tote bag...

Wellington Apocalypse Series

These two are available in store, hand-screenprinted with eco-inks on 220gsm art paper. They were drawn with brush and ink. click for a closer looksee.

Apocalypse Shmocalypse

All out of tea towels again, but it's not the end of the world, because there's calendar/posters instead... and they're apocalypse themed. Available at dittybox. There's some new art prints too (also apocalyptic) in store, and landscapes, and mini paintings, and big ones, and dinosaurs. Little paintings of BIG dinosaurs over little cities.

Closed friday 23rd, reopening Jan 7th.

Happy new apocalypse, and joyeux Noel Mouldey.

Love Gavin.

Nunightseeyouinthemorning.

click for a better look...

Pat attack

Patrick Cush's work will be coming down soon, so bowl up to the gallery before they're gone forever!

Here's some peeks, but 2d monitors don't do them justice. Nobody paints fat, textural paint like Patrick paints fat, textural paint.

click them for a bigger view.

Secret doo-doo

It's a magical poop that grants wishes. Nobody's mentioned this in the gallery yet. perhaps it's too well hidden.

Tea towels sold out, made more, sold out, now more again...

This batch is a big one, so should last a good while. Thanks to the fantastic Thomas The Screenprinter at Workshy in lovely Shelley Bay.
In store, come get one. I'll throw in the cute ribbon gratis.