up to the house

thats a detail from a new thing for winter time. i'm not into detail shots much, but this one is too wide to post as a thumbnail. i put it up on the webspace here:

http://www.burstofbeaden.com/uptothehouse.html

this one goes out to a road trip my dad and me took through Rip Van Winkle country around this time last year.

merry christmas and happy new year!

things

This is an illustration i did for the back page of the McSweeny's newspaper issue. It's kind of a kids page made up of some fine people who I'm humbled to be included with. This page was put together by Mac Barnett, who is great.

i was always kind of interested in 'spot the differences' games, because you go into them with such gusto, but they're so unsatisfying to finish. once you've spotted all the differences, thats it. at least it gave me an excuse to do a symmetrical composition instead of doing it for no reason like i usually do.

Also, I was lucky enough to snag a spot in the latest incarnation of Taschen's 'Illustration Now', curated by Julius Wiedemann. Here is proof of this claim:


I also have a very nice section in a magazine called DPI which i understand is all the rage in Taiwan. Thanks to Miss Effie Lin for being so great at putting it together. here is more visual proof:


to close, a heads up of a very interesting show coming up in London in January called 'If You Could Collaborate'. David O'Reilly and me (but mostly David) made something for it. Here's a link to the details, a link to David's site which you should look at every day, and a cryptic picture from the project. i'll post more show details and the project itself when the time is right.

http://www.ifyoucould.co.uk/collaborate
http://www.davidoreilly.com/

low tide

this was done for Gallery Nucleus' 5 year anniversary show.
this post comes with an apology for how quiet it's been on the surface, but with the assurance that plenty is going on underneath. should be lots of new stuff to show soon.

drew's illustration blog

hold on to your socks, guys. drew beckmeyer has an illustration blog.

http://drewbeckmeyerillustration.wordpress.com/

U2 single cover

This is an add-on to the U2 video i worked on. They'd asked for a single cover to match the video, so David came up with a design and we did some colour work on it and did the text using the font we'd made for the video. We sent it off and then didn't really hear if they liked it, but i guess they did cause it's on there!
there's even a vinyl version, all big and everything!

more details and a link to bigger picture over on David's site:
http://www.davidoreilly.com/2009/09/u2-single-cover

half minute horrors

This picture is for an anthology of short works called 'Half Minute Horrors'. It was put together by Susan Rich, and its got quite the list of people in it. I don't have that list, but I do know that Margaret Atwood, R.L.Stine, Lemony Snickett and Neil Gaiman are all in it. The royalties from the book go to First Book, a not-for-profit organization that brings books to children in need.

http://www.amazon.com/Half-Minute-Horrors-Susan-Rich/dp/0061833797

4pm tour

This is an illustration i did for the aforementioned book project. It is an illustration to accompany a terrific short story by Jez Burrows. Jez also wrote a short story to go along with my Waterfall picture, and it is really really cool. You guys should get this book. Here is a flickr set of the other pieces in the release show that unfortunately i could not attend because of the atlantic ocean.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/analoguebooks/sets/72157621383104876/