Red Neck Zine

I have made a new zine! It's called Red Neck. For a while now I've been mentioning that I've been playing around with making something like this and a couple of weeks ago, with the incentive of the Dundee Jamboree, I finally put it together.

Red Neck is a 28 page zine full of new drawings (all drawn in a 4-day marathon). I set out just to have fun making weird death & destruction pictures, the kind the crazy kid in your class might doodle in his schoolbooks. The end result, as you can imagine, is a little bit grisly but, I dunno, maybe kinda funny?

As an added thing, I knew I wanted to do a little bit of hand-colouring so 17 of the pages have red ink details. This was way more time consuming than I guessed it would be but hey, it means every single copy is unique and has a bit of a different look compared to the usual b&w zine style.

I don't want to post too many of the drawings yet as it kinda ruins the surprise a bit but I'll gradually put up a selection over the next couple of weeks. There are a few full-on patterny pages, some severed limbs, some skulls, some fire and a lot of blood. It's lovely though.

Of course, Red Neck is now available in my online shop. You can pick up your unique copy for the low, low price of £7. Man, I'm a bad salesman. Just have a look and see. Also, if anyone would like to stock a few copies in their shop etc. or needs any further info, contact me and we can sort something out.

I'm really hyped up for doing another zine soon, I've already got a few ideas in mind. Hopefully without the pressure of an immediate deadline I can really focus on doing something quite elaborate. Full colour? Huge? Tiny? Eh, maybe. Stay tuned. I'll also be putting up some new prints and things this week so subscribe if you haven't already for news on that (please).

So yeah, that's Red Neck. Available now. Thanks to Stuart for help at the print place and thanks to the Dundee Jamboree for providing the motivation to put it together. Here are the full details:

Red Neck
by David Galletly

A5 zine
28 pages
b&w print with hand-coloured elements
Edition of 100
Signed and numbered

Available here.

Impatience

A quick wee drawing for Illustration Friday. This week the topic is impatience.

Che Camille: Mini Show

I've just taken my Bowl of Cornflakes through to Che Camille in Glasgow for a mini sculpture show that's set to open tomorrow. As well as my piece, there will be work by Gary Bolam, Cheryl Field, and Lewis Holleran on show. Excuse my blurb:

This month sees artwork by Gary Bolam, Cheryl Field, David Galletly and Lewis Holleran. Come join us on the 1st of August 7-9pm for the launch of both the jewellery and sculpture exhibitions. A glittered deer skull, mechanical creations, stone cornflakes, video works and narrative jewellery all await you. Our new artist books section will be making it’s first appearance in the showroom also. The exhibition will run until the end of the month.

Sounds pretty good eh? Che Camille itself is an awesome boutique / workshop / creative space. It's well worth a visit. Here are the deets:

Sculpture Show: Che Camille

Various artists

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Show runs: 1st - 31st August

Opening Party: Saturday 1st August 7-9pm

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Che Camille

Floor 6, Argyle Arcade,

Buchanan Street,

Glasgow, G2 8BD

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Tel: 07862 720215

Email: camille@checamille.com

Stop by for the opening if you can. I think there will be all the usual music, drink and chitter chat. On a related note, there should be a little more Che Camille news from me in a few days.

Buildings

Getting better I think.

Doodles

A few doodles to start me off on something. I need to look at a couple of books. There will be more of this stuff soon, but better. I suddenly have so much to draw for so many things and can't seem to find any time.

Invention

Another one for Illustration Friday. The topic was "invention". Posting it on the following Thursday night is maybe a bit dumb but hey-ho.

A comic about a tree

Well a comic of sorts - it's not exactly George & Lynne. While I was doodling that one tree I thought this up then I decided I might as well draw it.

A tree!

I'm drawing stuff for someone for something. Might as well post my testers and doodles and stuff. There'll be more probably.

Shoes!

An old ink/watercolour picture today. I drew this after ordering a pair of blue slip-on Vans that were too small.

I never did get the pair that fitted. I really want yellow ones now.

A familiar face

I had did a pretty rubbishy drawing but coloured it in all nice in Photoshop.

Rouge, Edinburgh

Back in the springtime, my friend Rue Five got me in touch with the folks at Flesh in Edinburgh. They were putting on a group show called "Rouge" and were nice enough to ask me if I'd like to do some stuff for it. I did these (click for bigger):

This is called "Crows & Rabbit". It's watercolour and ink on cardboard. There were a couple more like this called "Sloths" (at top of page) and "Wolf & Owl":

I handed in some of my red & black drawings. Unfortuantely there was not enough time to scan them before the opening but a few are visible in these photos:

There was also a fairly large untitled picture of a kinda house thing.

The show went really well and I sold most of my work. Also exhibiting were: Rue Five, Elph, Concetta Barbera, Gopherhead, One Neck, Krisis, Lady K, Alexa Cameron... (I will complete this list and put in some links later, promise). We all had a good drink and a dance on the opening night.

Also, I did a few more red & black pictures after the Rouge show opened in June 06. This time I got the dang things scanned. CLICK HERE to see a them all. If you're too lazy for that, this is what one looks like:

I'll post about the second Flesh exhibition "Complete Control" soon.

Illustration Friday: "Thanksgiving"

I know it's not Friday today silly! This is for a website called Illustration Friday which gives out a topic every week and you draw a corresponding picture. This week's topic was "Thanksgiving" and since we don't celebrate it here in Scotland I kinda made a wee scene instead. This one is a bit of a rush job because I'm pretty busy right now but I kinda like it. I'll try to do this every week.

Owls & Mice

Hello again. How are you? I'm quite tired.

I'm trying to post something every day on this here place. I guess when I've nothing brand new, I'll post something old that maybe hasn't been seen by too many people. Here we go:

This is a kinda test idea thing I did for a comic I was thinking about. I never got much further than this, but it's still something I'd like to follow up. I reckon seeing the owls and mice duke it out would make a good silent comic. Kinda like in Monkey vs Robot by James Kochalka. I'd probably focus a lot on their wee cultures though, because it's really damn hard to work out how the mice would kill the owls. Maybe other animals could get involved.

Popcorn & Juice

A wee doodle of some popcorn and some juice. Just like at the cinema!

Oh, I've been playing with Google Analytics. It's a free thing that you can sign up for that tells you about all the traffic and stuff for your blog or site. It goes into crazy detail about what people searched for to get there and what they clicked etc. It's full of graphs and maps and logs and junk. Google rocks!

Gimmie Five

Ok, hello! A small post today to get me back into writing this.

I've got to finish off a bunch of things such as tidying and finances before I can sit down to draw, so nothing new today. It's annoying because there are about 3 fairly important drawingy things coming up and I've not got the foggiest what I'm gonna do. Not the foggiest.

This is a picture I did for the "Complete Control" exhibition at Flesh in Edinburgh. My friend Concetta bought it which was really nice. It's called "Gimmie Five".

I had the idea to do a few more of these playing other games such as "Slappy" or "Knuckly" but I never really got round to it. The Flesh exhibition was really good with stuff from Elph, Rue Five, Gopherhead and all that crowd. I hope they put on more in the future. My favourite thing was by Alexa Cameron but goddamn it was huge and expensive so I didn't buy it.

Bye!