Showing posts with label wallace and gromit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wallace and gromit. Show all posts
Friday, 3 January 2014
Happy New Year!
It's 2014! Thank you for all your support throughout 2013, it was a fantastic year for us and we hope we can make 2014 just as memorable. Of course our biggest achievement last year was taking part in the Gromit Unleashed exhibition - which was a huge success and made lots of pounds for Bristol Children's Hospital. But it doesn't end there, the Gromit Unleashed shop is still open in The Mall Cribbs Causeway and we're happy to reveal we now have a figurine of Hullaballoon available to buy. Be quick though as they tend to sell like hot cakes! You can see the little chap below in all his glory (and well done to the person who handpainted him - steady hand skills!)
Saturday, 6 July 2013
Hullaballoon
Here's our final painted Gromit for Gromit Unleashed. He'll be on display at the Arnos Vale Heritage site in Bristol, so catch him if you can!
Saturday, 29 June 2013
A Grand Day Out
We got to attend the launch of the Gromit Unleashed trail on June 28th in Bristol. It all started off at the M Shed with Nick Park making a 'Grand' entrance on a vintage steam train chock full of Gromit sculptures, including Nick's one which was kept top secret up until that point (its the one below with Wallace covering a poor Gromit in newspaper cuttings). Apart from being amazed by the talented artists that had taken part, we also got to meet animation legends Nick Park and Peter Lord, who were really lovely and thanked us for our work on the project. We were also treated to some short 'making of' films which featured the guys at Pixar creating 'Gromit Lightyear' and political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe with his stunning paint covered Gromit; 'Watch Out Gromit'.
It was a truly magnificent day and such a privilege to be part of. It's our first ever exhibition and it can't get any bigger or amazing than this, we really are lucky to have been a part of it. We hope the trail is a huge success and all the Gromit's make a ton of cash when they are auctioned off for charity after September. The trail starts Monday and you can find us at number 59 on the map (grab one from Bristol when you visit!) or get the app from the App Store. Don't forget to hashtag all your gromit photos #gromitunleashed if you do the trail!
But it doesn't end there! We'll be visiting our Gromit later next month at the Arnos Vale Heritage site where we'll be taking part in some events they will be hosting. We'll post more pics of ours in its new home along with others we've taken along the way of this fantastic charity exhibition.
It was a truly magnificent day and such a privilege to be part of. It's our first ever exhibition and it can't get any bigger or amazing than this, we really are lucky to have been a part of it. We hope the trail is a huge success and all the Gromit's make a ton of cash when they are auctioned off for charity after September. The trail starts Monday and you can find us at number 59 on the map (grab one from Bristol when you visit!) or get the app from the App Store. Don't forget to hashtag all your gromit photos #gromitunleashed if you do the trail!
But it doesn't end there! We'll be visiting our Gromit later next month at the Arnos Vale Heritage site where we'll be taking part in some events they will be hosting. We'll post more pics of ours in its new home along with others we've taken along the way of this fantastic charity exhibition.
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Our Gromit for Gromit Unleashed
As we mentioned back in March, we were selected as one of the lucky 80 artists to take part in the Gromit Unleashed trail taking part this Summer. Last week we travelled to Bristol and painted our 5ft Gromit. It was a labour of love as we'd never done anything of this kind (or scale) before so it was an amazing experience and real learning curve for us. We painted the 5ft sculpture of the popular claymation series over a period of three days. It's now finished and will be laquered up to join the other 79 Gromits that will be lined the streets at popular locations in Bristol this summer (lets hope its a sunny one!).
Below are a few of the sneaky peeks of our work in progress as we're not allowed to reveal the whole finished piece until they're unveiled on the trail in July. We'll post more photos in July when its out in the wild! To find out more about the project and to visit the trail this summer check out the Gromit Unleashed website here.
Below are a few of the sneaky peeks of our work in progress as we're not allowed to reveal the whole finished piece until they're unveiled on the trail in July. We'll post more photos in July when its out in the wild! To find out more about the project and to visit the trail this summer check out the Gromit Unleashed website here.
Monday, 11 March 2013
A 5ft Gromit!
We're proud to announce that we'll be one of the 70 artists getting to paint a 5ft Gromit statue for the Gromit Unleashed Charity Exhibition in Bristol. We're really excited as its for a great cause (the statues will be sold after the exhibition with all proceeds going to Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal, the Bristol Children’s Hospital Charity) and we're huge Wallace & Gromit fans (hopefully we'll get to meet Mister Park!). For now we have to keep our design very, very top secret as to keep a bit of mystery for the big unveil in July. But we'll be sure to keep you in the loop on the progress of our painting of the statue, so stay tuned over the next couple of months for updates and sneak peeks!
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