I am delighted that one of my new oil paintings has been selected to be part of the Midlands Open exhibition, which is running at the Tarpey Gallery. ‘When I Close My Eyes’ is part of a series of oil paintings I created over the summer.
It will be exhibited as part of the Midlands Open at the Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington, from 12th Nov – 24th Dec 2011, Wed – Sat, 11am-6pm.
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I am exhibiting a selection of my art & illustration work this weekend at the Melbourne Festival Arts & Architecture Trail. There will be lots of bargains to be had, as I am taking the opportunity to have a studio clearance. So expect massive discounts on framed Dead Good Kids art prints, t-shirts & greetings cards, framed and unframed mono prints, and lots lots more!
I am exhibiting at ‘The One Off’ on Derby Road in Melbourne, along with 6 or 7 other artists. So come along and bag yourself a bargain Martin Hyde artwork!
The Melbourne Festival Arts & Architecture runs on Sat 17th & Sun 18th Sept 2011. For more information see: http://www.melbournefestival.co.uk/index.html
You will be able to check out my new series of mono prints in April at the Cathedral Coffee shop in collaboration with Green Door Printmaking studio. So where did the name come from? Well it comes from the process I have used – mono printing. But in the case of these works I have printed on both sides of the chinese paper, and the colour shines though, hence the Duo, becasue they are kind of Duo prints.
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We have been working on ideas for Dead Good Kids t-shirts for a while now, but can finally reveal our first two t-shirt designs! They feature two of the Dead Good pets, Mervin the elephant and Percival the cat. Both designs are hand screen-printed on high quality Fruit of the Loom t-shirts, and come in chocolate brown or charcoal grey. The t-shirts are available in small, medium, large and extra large sizes. Both designs are available to buy for just £17 (inc p&p) from our on-line shop at: http://www.deadgoodkids.com/13-t-shirts
There are more designs in progress, so watch this space for previews of more Dead Good Kids t-shirt designs. Click on the images to view large screen
I am a regular the Green Door Print Making Studio in Derby, and have been doing etching there for a while now. This week I decided to try out some lino printing for a change, and thought one of the Dead Good Kids characters would be fun to do. So here it is, Percival the Cat as a lino print!
To celebrate Halloween, we have got a very special offer for Dead Good Kids customers. Until 31st October 2010 you can buy our 4 limited edition prints with a massive 40% discount, saving you £50 per print!
Our very special limited edition artworks include two Dead Good Kids favourites, Shadow Penguin and Lucian in the Dark, as well as two Dead Good Wrestlers pieces, Sanchez the Wrestler and Pile Driver Wrestlers . All prints come individually signed and numbered, and the edition for each artwork will only go to 50 prints in total. So buy one quick, before they are all gone!
We have several other promotions running in the shop at the moment. Buy all 5 original Dead Good Kids artworks, featuring the 5 main characters – Edward, Verity, Vincent, Samara and Calamity for just £170 – a saving of £67.50. And finally there is a three for the price of two deal on the Dead Good Pets – Dexter, Percival & Mervin.
Class 6NT at Shelton Junior School, Derby have been super creative and created these wonderful artworks based on The Dead Good Kids graphic art series. Each piece is based on an existing Dead Good Kids print. We love how they are using lots of great techniques such as perspective and shadow to achieve the artwork.
Neil Thurlow, Class 6NT ‘s teacher, introduced the class to Martin’s Dead Good Kids in their art sessions, after becoming a fan of the character art series himself. Neil had bought some Dead Good Kids artwork for his house, and thought the children would enjoy looking at the work and trying to create their own versions of it. And here are the results!
We were very pleased to hear today that we have been short listed for a CIN Award in the Graphic Design / Illustration category for the Greyhound project.
The Greyhound
The Greyhound project was the first project we’ve worked on which really fused our graphic design work and artwork, in particular the Dead Good Kids character series. For the project Martin came up with a new Dead Good Kids character, Graham the Greyhound, and lots of new artworks.
Graham features on the swinging sign outside the pub (as pictured), and on numerous pieces of the graphic design work, including the menu’s, leaflets, adverts, staff t-shirts, rack illustration and much more. Inside the pub Graham takes pride of place in several artworks on the wall, alongside other Dead Good Kids favourites Edward and Verity.
CIN is a fantastic resource for Derby creatives, and we are big supporters of its work. To be short listed for a CIN award is a great honour for us.
We are really looking forward to the awards ceremony, which is on Tuesday 21st September 2010 at 6pm at Quad in Derby. And just as icing on the cake, one of our favourite creatives – Wayne Hemingway – is presenting the awards, so hopefully we will get to mingle with him too!
Hello from Graham the Greyhound! Graham was created as part of a collaboration with the Derby Brewing Company, for their new pub The Greyhound, on Friargate in Derby.
The pub will feature the Dead Good Kids art throughout, and Design and i has done all of the design and branding for the new pub. This illustration of Graham was commissioned for the swinging pub sign at The Greyhound. The illustration builds on the Dead Good Kids style, using a a variation of the Victorian color scheme from the Dead Good Kids. There is another more detailed version of the artwork featured within the pub, with the Greyhound in a night time scene.
The Greyhound opens to the public at 8.30pm on Thursday 20th May 2010.
Well we have finally got it sorted – the new Dead Good Kids Facebook page went live today. We have uploaded some of our favourite images of the Kids into the photos section. There are some montages of the main characters, and some portraits of the ever popular Edward & Verity. There are also some of the cute birds and the crazy gremlins! Check them out on Facebook and let us know what you think. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Dead-Good-Kids/114937028545213?ref=ts
We will be adding more images over the next few weeks, and some Greyhound specials closer to the launch on 21st May 2010.
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