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...Not forgetting:
"Japanese Modern. Graphic Design between the Wars"
Seymour Chwast/Steven Heller/James Frazer. (Publ. Chronicle Books)
ISBN: 0-8118-0509-3

Memories of St. Thomas. Jamaica.

El Alberto!

Tune in and turn on.....
To the incredible Alberto Mielgo.
Now blogging at:
http://albertomielgo.blogspot.com/

Autumn shadows are gathering in Limbololand and it's time to feel a little nostalgia for the southern sun.

Japonisme

Symbols of Japan" by Merrily Baird. (Publ. Rizzoli)
ISBN: 0-8478-2361-X
Beautifully produced and illustrated. A dictionary of Japanese motifs, graphics - popular and traditional.

"Japonisme- the Japanese influence on Western Art since 1858"
by Siegfied Wichmann (Thames and Hudson- the English edition)
ISBN: 0-500-28163-7

Treasure Island

Still from 'Eva goes to Foreign'.

papa!

Story about a lost boy.

Archimboldoism.

Willi Wonkah ?

Concept art for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Lodeve, Pays d'Herault

La reine soleil

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Being Kong

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the heretic king 1

Concepts for 'La Reine Soleil".
Currently in production with Belokan, Paris.

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6 concepts for an ideal city.

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Willie Wonka's other factory 2

Willie Wonka's other factory

These are concept illustrations for Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Included here in accordance with Limboloism (see right).
Sometimes those briefs are just too tight....But then again.... you never know.

Journey to the Ants*

These little frames were done for Disney/Character Builder's "Tarzan II".
The DVD is not available in Limbololand so I don't know whether they used them.

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The Jimmy Riddle. Auld Scotch pub.

adam

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Albi's place

in search of...

instruments of the interior.

Treasure Island

Dr. Livesy.

Billy Bones.
Further evidence of Uli Meyer's 'Treasure Island' project.

Jock

Jock is a male lowland gorilla. At the time I did this painting he was about to be shipped out to Bristol Zoo because an intractable quarrel had broken out between him and one of the female gorillas.
He would sit for about an hour at a time, crouching down with his hand on his chin, gazing into the distance.

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This is concept artwork for a commercial for Vodaphone which was to be produced by Aardman Films in Bristol.
It would have been the basis for a CGI 'set'. In the end the clients decided to make the commercial in live action.

Men in suits

Atenism today. Tate Modern. South Bank, London, 2003.

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Sonny Boy Williamson aka. Rice Miller, the Goat, Boy Blue, etc..etc..

Wryest of blues lyricists and best of biscuit salesmen.

this is Mrs. Cruelstreak.

A bullfighter in search of a promoter.

A senior policeman of the old school.

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