NME ILLUSTRATION OF SNOOPDOGG / SNOOPZILLA / 7 DAYS OF FUNK
by jimmy turrell on Tuesday 17 December 2013
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Heres a preview of some of artwork which will be ready to buy when my shop launches on Monday. A BETA version of the site is up now at http://jimmyturrell.bigcartel.com
To celebrate the launch of my official shop on Monday I’m giving away three signed originals. These are one-off collage pieces - all worth £250 each. Presently the shop is in its BETA stage (there’s only 5 pieces up at the moment) but there will be 25 new pieces to choose from on Tuesday. Check it out now at www.jimmyturrell.bigcartel.com
2. Then tweet "Just entered the competition to win an original Jimmy Turrell collage. Just follow
@jimmyturrell and retweet this message"
The competition closes on Tuesday 17th December and the winner will be picked at random.
The competitions to win “London Town” + “Tempt” will both launch on Monday.
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Its been a while since my last post but theres lot's more coming this week so stay tuned. The NME has had a big re-design lately and my old friend Mark Neil has commisioned me to illustrate their album of the week....well surprisingly ...every week..
Heres a selection of the artists and bands I've done so far. There's two or three versions of each artist
here - I've tried to give them a choice between my more painterly style and my more graphic, collage style - and sometimes I've mixed them both together. Obviously only one version made the final cut. From the top here weve got Paul McCartney, Arcade Fire, Torres, MIA, Cate Le Bon and Eminem.
Conceptually I've tried to keep them quite simple - with McCartney I wanted to show him as someone who is still capable of a breadth of new ideas even though his album has a rich Beatlesesque feel about it - hence the younger version of him in profile. After listening to the new Eminem record I realised how fast and caustic his flow is on this album and came up with the analogy of his pen being used as a weapon.
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Here's today's Guardian Guide cover that I've just created. Its for an article on the new movie from Matt Damon and Neil Blomkamp (the director of District 9). Set in the year 2154, where the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth, Damon's character takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.
I tried to give the cover a bold, political poster like feel with earth represented as a scuzzy, ruined, damaged (but defiant) planet and the Elyssuim space station as a perfect glowing beacon. Click on the image enlarge...
Here's a sneak peek of tomorrow's Guardian Guide cover. It's much more typographic than my usual work but I really enjoyed working on it.
JOHN TURRELL - SCREENPRINTED KINGMAKER POSTERS - WORK IN PROGRESS
by jimmy turrell on Wednesday 17 July 2013
Heres some shots of a couple of limited edition posters I've just done (for my brother John Turrell's new album The Kingmaker) in the process of being screenprinted. You'll be able to buy them from his brand new site (which has literally just launched today) very soon. Click here for more details.