The Call of Cthornwall

"Lady Elizabeth Eldritch, displaying one of her discoveries on Bodmin Moor during her 1885 parabiology field trip. This little critter was harvested from an albumen sack found dangling from roof beams in the old pitchblende mine by Brimstone Tor..."

Been having fun with my latest steampunked views of Westcountry life under the growing umbrella notion of the Call of Cthornwall, where I can give free range to the pasty spiders and grockle mites of the county, with the safety of history between me and them! Publishing as posters, prints and cards over on Red Bubble, there may well be airships, test tubes and frock coats aplenty in the coming months...

More from the Corps:

Another salvaged item of steam-memorabilia from the bottom of Great Uncle Norton's airman's chest. Dredd Bubblejet was first engineer aboard the H.M.A.S Jethro Tull when she was siezed upon by a visiting RSA: Air Corps publicity detachment, as the pin up girl for the services recruitment drive.
Poster available soon over on Red Bubble

 

New items from the coal bunker:

In a steampunkish vein I've dug out some old memorabilia from my great uncle's days in the Steam Flying Corps, from out of his old airman's chest down in the cellar. After tidying and restoring I thought I'd release a few retro items as prints and t-shirts, etc. This is the first of several in the pipeline: recruitment poster for Her Majesty's Science Rangers: Flying Corps. It features Major Tennessee Orville Monkfish, commander of the H.M.A.S. Reckless Endeavour. My great-uncle apparently served as his cabin boy for several months on first joining the corps. There were rumours of a copy of this poster that my uncle got the old major to sign, but we think it probably ended up at the bottom of the budgie cage, along with a stack of old fliers for corrective galvanic corsets.
Available as prints, posters and tees over at Red Bubble.

Angels on the loose!:

Thought it would be fun to share some pics of The Angel of the Morning after as he travelled around the globe during the Christmas festivities for 2009....apparently he got about quite a bit. Here he is after taking one too many with Margot & Matt in Arlington in the US (cheers for the photos and keeping an eye on him!):

 

 

The Pellar & The Raven

A new work posted to Red Bubble today, a tribute to the tradition of Cornish Pellars....Pellar is an old Cornish dialect term for cunning-men and women, wise folk or conjurors. This is my modern take on the likes of Thomasina Blight a witch/conjuror of West Cornwall who lived and practised her craft during the early 19th Century.

Red Bubble rising...

Finally got around to taking out a Red Bubble account in order to make some of my work available online. I'll be posting a heap of goodies up there which will be available to buy as greetings cards and posters etc, with T-shirt designs in the pipeline too....and hopefully towards the middle of 2010 a calendar marking the pagan wheel of the seasons. Go check out my Bigfoot Bubblesite
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