•LE TOUR COMES TO BARNSLEY •

•LE TOUR COMES TO BARNSLEY •

On the 6th July the mad cap circus that is the Tour de France flashes through the western edge of my home town. I'm a keen mountain biker and have never ventured over to the 'dark side' but this road race will definitely be one worth celebrating.

Excellent website with all the details ...

http://letour.yorkshire.com/

I've been involved in a few marketing and promotional spin-offs for Le Tour and these 2 designs are amongst them.

The top image is a T shirt design that's been entered into a competition and exhibition at the Millenium Galleries, Sheffield.

The bottom one, a pump clip (beer clip) for Wentworth Brewery, who have brewed a special celebration race ale.

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•CREATING MOLTEN LAVA •

•CREATING MOLTEN LAVA •

For this new beer clip for Golden Eagle Brewery I needed some convincing fiery lava.

I remembered a trick I'd used a few years ago, when needing to set some gravestones 'on fire' for  CD cover. The shadows between rocks, cracks in rocks etc if inverted and then filed with yellows and oranges took on a realistic kind of molten lava effect.

So I picked a stock photo of cracked mud - picture 1 - and ran radial blur over it to 'explode' it a little.

Then after inverting the photo - picture 2 - and adding reds and oranges into the cracks with an overlay glow it soon started to take on the feel of glowing coals and cracking lava flows.

In picture 3, I've used some 'noise' in a channel and exploded that with the same radial blur and sprayed extra yellows and oranges over the lava using this noise explosion as the mask. Picture 4 shows smoke that was used judiciously to overlay certain areas and give a smouldering, steaming effect.

Picture 5 shows the various type effects that were blended together and then overlaid onto the lava artwork, some of the yellow cracks from the mud photo can be seen overlaying the text.

In the final 2 pictures you can see how I arrived at the final beer clip design. The addition of a distant volcano, another lava field at the bottom and it's complete. One of the hops used in the brew is called Jade. Jade, and indeed New Zealand, were created by volcanic action hence the monumental name.

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•PHOTO REALISTIC BREWERY POSTERS •

•PHOTO REALISTIC BREWERY POSTERS •

These 2 posters were part of a set illustrated for Wentworth Brewery.

I've stuck the Stout clip on there to show how these 'blank' bar posters can be used in conjunction with new brews which will be released throughout the year.

Hopefully these delightful brews will whet your thirst and tempt you to track one down. And I promise you, if you do, you'll not be disappointed by the wonderful hand crafted full bodied taste.

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