New website and a look to the future!!

Hey everyone! Hope we all had a great "Murray" Christmas....ok promise it's the last time I make that pun! The sentiment remains though! And here's for 2011 eh? I decided to give myself a head start and set up a brand new spanking website!! It's not 100% yet as waiting to sort out my domain so it will be set up to www.murraysomerville.com which should be in a week or so- but in the mean time check it out! -

http://cargocollective.com/murraysomerville

Also things to look forward to in 2011-

-My desktop illustration for computers/laptops/ipads/iphones through Just Us will soon be released!

-My contribution to I heart dot dot dot's zine will be unveiled alongside her new zine in the coming month or so!

-My intruder-tron tee design should be on sale alongside the launch of Intruder Records clothing label!

-Melon Shrub 2 will be released in february alongside a hopeful launch party at the end of that month which will include exhibition work/ live drawing from great illustrators / a rare one off return from the band that started it all: LEMON TREE and more!

-New work from Dazeray in the follow up to our exhibition at the "Here and Now" gallery in Falmouth!

-Toastie-o 2 !!!!

Not a bad little list, and that only takes us as far as June!!!! :O Gonna be an exciting year folks, and let me say a big thank you to all of you who take time to follow me, support my art and consider yourself a fan! you guys are LEGENDS!

Just Us Collective- IPhone Backgrounds

I've just had 3 of my designs made available for free on the Just Us Collective sit for iphone backgrounds! Check em out and all the other talented people involved too- remember they're FREE! Here's what they look like, and follow the link through to get to the Just Us site for the downloads!!! :D More like this to come!!!

http://www.justusdesigncollective.com/blog/?p=1883

MICRO SHRUB-UB!+other works!

HEY! Ok so new work is now kicking around! First up a quick shout out to my time travelling illustration being shown in the awesome Peculiar Bliss Magazine! So Shabba to that! Check out the illo I submitted and the link for the rest of the awesome mag below!

http://peculiarbliss.com/



And excitingly!! MICRO SHRUB is here!!! The small online magazine is the anticipated build up for the soon to be released and rather awesome Melon Shrub 2! But until Jan/Feb 2011 enjoy this all new and exclusive "Micro" expereience :D

http://issuu.com/melonshrub/docs/microshrub1?viewMode=magazine&mode=embed

UPDATE!!!!

Hello hello and hello! It's been far too smegging long since I've updated my blog- mainly due to the vaccuum of my life that is Micro Shrub + Melon Shrub! So let's talk about that first shall we? Yes ok, so I said Melon Shrub would be out by november...may have been a little wrong, BUT it's only because me and jack are striving to make it more badass than ever thought possible! It's all exciting though as "Micro Shrub" will be released in the next week- this will be a downloadable bite sized flavour of melon shrub, a digital sister will be free to shrub onto your screens and enjoy!!! Melon Shrub has been pushed back til the beginning of the new year...but trust me it will be an awesome way to start the new year :D

The bottom line on this is- be very excited as a MASSIVE amount of new exciting material is on it's way very very very soon!!!!!

Here's a little sneak montage of why...




Ok so what else have I been up to!? Well I took part in some live drawing courtesy of "Ballad Of" ( you know that cool magazine!: http://balladof.co.uk/ ) for their two year anniversary! The event was at Jaguar Shoes in shoreditch and I got to draw along side the following illustrative legends!! :

Tom Bates (yoamomonstruos)- http://www.ilovemonsters.co.uk
Sandra Dieckmann- http://www.sandradieckmann.com/
Jamie Mills- http://jamiemilk365days.blogspot.com/
Erd Octotoro (iamanoctopus) - http://yes.iamanoctopus.co.uk/
Natsuki Otani- http://www.natsukiotani.co.uk/

and here's a few pics of me on the night- still waiting to get hold of the pics of the finished wall/close ups of the work- was really awesome though and def hope something like that comes up again in the future!!





Ok next up some exposure- hurrah! Was featured in Art Box Magazine!! Which is awesome! A double paged spread mentioning my work! Here's a link to the issue- http://www.artboxmagazine.bigcartel.com/ and also a pic of me with the magazine in question!!




And Just Us Collective created zine with collaboration of 13 of its members ( me included) to make the snazzy, nifty lil E-Spam Zine!! An awesome lil zine for only 3.50! And I got issue numero 1 !!! :O Not sure how many are left but try and get one if you can, if at least to see my ridiculous "Spam-o-lop-a-gop" ! Here's a link for where you can buy the zine-http://www.justusdesigncollective.com/espam.html and also the collective link- http://www.justusdesigncollective.com/




Also I'll be in I heart dot dot dot's ( http://www.iheartdotdotdot.co.uk/)new zine coming out in jan...but no sneak peeks, you're gonna have to wait for that lil gem :P

My on going work for an appropriate series for arck clothing is finally coming to an end pending edits to the series- but just to give a heads up- it's Cakes and Balloons!! Check these lil guys out!