Send us a message to talk about commissioning a psychedelic painted version of your favourite images, album art for example. This photo is an example of one of David's previous commissions. His original works are hand-painted and unique, made with brush and paint, not just a digital print. THIS ITEM'S PRICES INCLUDE FREE POSTAGE TO UK. For international shipping, the prices are for the smallest size option – please contact us for the cost for shipping the larger options. You can order a personalised picture of a person, pet, landscape, vehicle, building or fantasy scene. Each work of art is created with great time, care and attention – David puts his heart into each piece. He works in a variety of styles; his most popular is a realist style. David paints with highest quality Liquitex acrylic paint on professional-standard stretched box canvases that can be hung directly on the wall. Pencil drawings are drawn on 130 g/sq.m paper, using Derwent, Faber-Castell and Caran d'Ache pencils. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you wish to discuss a commission. Best wishes David and Caroline https://www.facebook.com/Davidhughespaintings/ https://www.instagram.com/davidhughesoriginalpainting
Never lose you way on the long and winding road with this letterpressed fantasy map print that explores the music of The beatles. I've hand drawn the map in pen and ink and then hand printed a limited edition of 100 prints on archival paper here in Brooklyn. Signed, numbered and shipped to you in a flat package. Sold unframed but it is very easy to frame. Before you do, first take some time to enjoy the embossed texture of the letterpress lines. The map is part of a larger series inspired by the work of musicians and poets which have now found homes at the Museum of Modern Art, The Free Black Women’s Library, Opus 40 Gallery, Artists Space, The Free Library of Philadelphia, The Woodland Pattern Center, The Scottish Poetry Library, and private collections in nine countries. They have been featured on CNN, NBC's The Today Show, Buzzfeed, New York Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, and elsewhere. The maps in this series invite you to get lost within their wild topographies, each inspired by a trailblazing writer or musician, and to discover yourself in new worlds perhaps better than this one. The geographic portrayal of the realms would be impossible without visual worldbuilding practices made available through Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Gygax’s Dungeons & Dragons, and Juster/Fieffer’s The Phantom Tollbooth. But they owe an equal debt to the earthbound cartographers of the Age of Exploration. Master mapmakers like Al Idrisi, Fra Mauro, and Gerardus Mercator. Now that our usual habits, motives, and methods for movement and action have been so disrupted, these maps offer new techniques for travel and adventure. In addition to having drawn this map, I also teach fantasy cartography through Uncommon Goods.
In my last blog post I looked at the work of American illustrator Seymour Chwaste, and mentioned the similarity between some of his work and that of German illustrator Heinz Edelmann (20 June 1934 – 21 July 2009). Edelmann was actually born in Czechoslovakia in 1934. He is a well-known illustrator in Europe, but is probably most famous for his art direction and character designs for the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine. From 1953 to 1958 Edelmann studied printmaking at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts. He began his career as a freelance illustrator and designer for theatre posters, and German advertising. From 1961 - 1969 he was a regular illustrator and cover designer for the internationally renowned youth magazine twen. During 1967 - 1968 he worked on Yellow Submarine. Between 1968-1970, he was a partner in a small animation company in London but his desire to work on more feature films did not come about. In 1970, Edelmann moved to Amsterdam and designed posters for plays, films and book jackets. His last deliberate use of the style of Yellow Submarine was for illustrating a book, Andromedar SR1 (1970), which was about a voyage to Mars. He also designed the cover for a German edition of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Also known are his numerous illustrations for Kenneth Grahame's children's book The Wind in the Willows. From 1972–1976, Heinz Edelmann taught industrial graphic design in the Department of Applied Sciences Duesseldorf. After that he was Lecturer of Art and Design at the Fachhochschule Köln. (Cologne factory schools) and in 1999, he became professor of illustration at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. Edelmann died in 2009 in Stuttgart aged 75.
It has been mentioned in the Beatles Bible and other sources that in 1964 Bob Dylan and the Beatles first met each other, in a New York City hotel room,
