I've moved!

Ha! I've jumped ship. I'm leaving you baby, and I'm moving into Wordpress's new place.

All new updates will now be at jamesalbon.wordpress.com

More than just a pretty face

So, I made a mask.

Some things

A couple of DPS's from a project in college...

Exhibition!

There is an exhibition. Of my work. In Frame Creative, which is at the top of South East Circus Place.

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Welcome to the occupation

So, these last few days I've been at the Edinburgh University student occupation and accompanying protests. Here're a couple of the sketches I've made from it!

Have a look at edinunianticuts.wordpress.com to see what its all about!

Pretty in Pink

Two pictures for completely unrelated projects I've been doing. But they're both pink. The first is for the Big Swish, a breast cancer awareness party event thingamy coming up. The second is a design for wallpaper for a Gothic-themed project we're doing in school at the moment.

Augustus and the Real Edinburgh

First proper project of the new term is done and done and done. It's on the eca blog, which you can see here

The Student

I seem to be doing a lot of newspaper work at the moment. Here's an exciting sneak peak of a short story that's appearing in the Student next week. I'm probably not supposed to post this. Oh well

She paced in the waiting room in short sharp strides; her hands flitting in and out of her pockets, alternating between clasping together and hanging limp. The only other occupant of the room sat in one of the chairs which ran along the wall; he was flicking through an old movie magazine, his eyes sliding over articles about the latest releases. Without stopping or looking at him the girl addressed her companion.
“How can you act so calm?”
“Why do you think I’m acting?”
“You mean you’re not worried?”
“Why would I be worried?”
“Stop answering my questions with questions.”
“Ok.”
She stopped and turned to look at him.
“How can you not be worried about this? You don’t know what he is going to do, what if it hurts?”
“If it hurts it hurts.”
“You’re not taking this seriously.”
He looked up from the magazine and met her gaze.
“It’s the dentist, it’s a check-up, he will poke about in my mouth for a minute, decide everything is fine and charge me for the pleasure of forty-five minutes waiting for an appointment that lasts all of thirty seconds.”
“But what if he doesn’t?”
“Then he doesn’t. Then I have to come back in a few weeks and pay even more money to get my teeth fixed. But that won’t happen, my teeth are fine.”
“Then why are you here?”
“I don’t know, you made me book an appointment just before yours, why am I here?”
“Moral support.” She began pacing again.

Yellerzine

Last month I did the illustrations for Edinburgh University Art Society's magazine, which is now printed up and scattered all across the city. Here is a delightful sneak-peak for you before you get your hands on it.

Another exhibition?

Yes indeed! Alongside the very fine Josefin Sundqvist! Here is the poster:

I will go and take photos at a later date. There are some very fine paintings.

Also, my paintings are now up in the Little Bead Shop on Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh's finest, and possible smallest, emporium of beads. For the curious, it is worth noting that the adjective "Little" describes the shop (which is quite small compared to other shops) rather than the beads (some of which are quite large, compared to other beads).

Good day!

And more exhibition

Exhibition

Here are some pictures of some paintings and stuff...

Sketchbooks and that

Actually, this could be my last ever post! I've finished making my website, so now aside from a bit of tidying up and the like, my work will be on there! Anyway, in the mean time here are some pretty pictures from various sketchbooks for you to look at:

The Owl and the Pussycat

I've actually had these prints for quite some time, but it's only now they're framed that I've got round to photographing them. They're illustrations for Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat, and if you don't know it you should read more books.

Alice!

A couple of designs for the Penguin book cover competition.

This one being the final one.

Sexybition

You can find the work of the fine Mr. Ninnis here

Printmaking...

...is taking over my life. Which is a good thing. Look at these pretty pictures.

Happy New year

Yes, I know, I haven't updated this for ages. I'll keep the writing brief, I know everyone just wants to look at the pictures

It's sort of Christmas now

It's sort of Christmas now. I went to a carol concert on Wednesday, so I'm almost feeling festive. Anyway, the concert was part of the launch of a book called the Gift of Words, a poetry anthology for the Sick Kids Foundation, which I did an illustration for. Anyway, it's very good, so I suggest everyone goes and buys one, which you can do by clicking on these words.

That's enough writing for one morning.. I have work to do!

It's not Christmas yet

Ah, no more group work. I've returned to the cupboard under the stairs with a fresh cup of tea, a bottle of ink, and a Pink Martini album- but that's not the only news. Actually it more or less is. Aside from that, the grand exhibition is still up in Mavi's, you can see it in all it's tiny, slightly out-of-focus glory right here.
That's alongside the work of the fine Oli Ninnis and Bec Crane. You can see Oli's work here, but I don't think Bec has a website. In other news, those beard books should be making their grand return to the Analogue bookshop on the grassmarket, and some more of my stuff is going up in the illustration studio for all the world to see. I haven't scanned any of it yet, but here's a little snippet of the written part:

My cousin once said to me "James,
I have had no success with the dames,
by the length of my beard
it is much as I feared,
Too much time playing video games."

I'll leave it up to your imagination to guess at the accompanying image. See you all.