the ark project

Illustration for The Ark Project.

Viimeinen Atlantis

I've been busy doing client jobs, mostly for Stam1na, and this is one of them: http://www.viimeinenatlantis.fi. I did the illustrations, or maybe it's a sequential art, or a mysterious puzzle? I can't tell much about it, check out the website on a weekly basis and figure it out, as more things will be revealed.

It's that same voice again

"a conversation with despair on the top of the hill"

album cover art

I did an album cover art for Pitbull Terrorist. C.I.A. was released via Anstalt Records on November 6th. I'll post more pictures when I get my copy of the album.

art prints

Some new prints available. Four different ones to choose from. Print size is 32 cm x 45 cm, white margins, the image area is 27 cm x 40 cm, 4CC 300 g/m2 paper.

You can get them from muud.fi webstore here. Or directly from me by mailing me here: markku(at)groteski(dot)net

When hope turns to self-deception

"waiting for the tide"

work in progress

I did some drawing yesterday.

almost there

"hopelessly lost in the calm waters of solitude"

Leaking Reality

It's been a bit of a slow season for me, or at least what comes to drawn art, but creativity needs some pauses from time to time. Or so I tell myself...

But there's some art stuff I've been involved, I did an audiovisual installation with the Kouvostoliitto-group for the Kouvola Night of Art last Friday.

Name of the installation was "Leaking Reality" and the basic idea was that the reality of Kouvostoliitto was leaking through some TV-sets into our reality. If you have no idea what Kouvostoliitto is, you can visit www.kouvostoliitto.fi or read this article where I speak something about the Kouvostoliitto art project.



Here's some pics from the Night of Art.















Work in progress

















Almost ready

















Tiina is making some final adjustments

















Up and running

















I'm setting TV-set number 2 at another location






















Heidi is preparing for her role as an official of Kouvostoliitto






















Tiina at our stand where we we're selling Kouvostoliitto stuff and also some of my art stuff

















Trying to fit everything on the tables

















Some customers

















TV-screen at night

more cover art

Some unfinished line art, a sneak peek from album cover art I recently did for a quite interesting band. But I'll tell you more after the release date.

äkä

Cover art for Äkä demo cd, Scenes of Desolation.

nethescurial

Illustrations for "Nethescurial", a short story by Thomas Ligotti. Tähtivaeltaja issue 2/2009.

art show

A crappy photo before my camera battery died. Pictures on a wall, but not just any wall, it's an art museum wall.
















There is a collaborative art show at Kouvola Art Museum (2nd floor), presenting different works from various local artists, including some of my work too. Go check them out, the show is up till the end of August.

nudes

Sometimes you just need to draw naked women. I guess it's some kind of a man thing?

postcards for sale

A mixed bag of postcards I scraped together from leftovers. Whether it's your friend, grandmother, lost cousin, dearest archenemy or secret love, I bet they all like to receive a postcard from you.
Or if you don't have anyone to send them, you can just hang the cards on your bathroom wall, where I heard some of my postcards ended up.






















A set of ten postcards, 15 euros including postage (in Finland).
Send your order here: markku(at)groteski(dot)net

Also there are still some prints left.

please stop being ridiculous, I miss you

"visiting the garden of lost friends"

work in progress

A couple of things I finished drawing, next stage is giving them some colors.

zombies!

You should never miss an opportunity to draw some zombies, so I did cover art for the new The Zombi EP.

new prints

Two new prints available, "self-protection" and "through the ivory gate". Scroll down a couple of posts for more info how to order them.

paint it white

"self-protection"


Mmm, I have to draw more wallpaper patterns, I got hooked immediately when I started to draw one for this.

art for sale -updated-

Enough people asked for these, so here is some prints for you. Put them on a frame and there you go.
400mm x 300mm prints (the actual image area is 310mm x 210mm ) on a 4CC 300 g/m2 paper.


















If you want one, send your order here: markku(at)groteski(dot)net
Price is 14€ each + 6€ for postage cost (in Finland). Delivered in a tube seen below.



















There are eight different prints to choose from:


















1/ "goodbye"               2/ "a boy with too much fear in his heart"


















3/ "something fell from the sky"               4/ "lost together"





















5/ "no more games"

















6/ " a temporary escape becomes a home"






















7/ "through the ivory gate"






















8/ "self-protection"

I've grown weary

"to disappear or die gradually"

solitude

"the isolated king of the ivory tower"

can't go on like this

"no more games"

betrayed

"how could I have known that these words would turn against me?"