MISFITS UNITE - A collection Of Pencil Drawings

It has been a little while between drinks for us here in IMOK Land, but we are happy to announce that we will be showing some brand new pencil & graphite drawings at the Melbourne Art & Design Pop Up Market in Prahran on Saturday November 5th.

You will get to view and/or purchase the original A3 size drawings framed. Titled "Misfits Unite" the drawings are twisted, disturbed and sometimes cute characters that come from our creative minds. Each drawing tells a story...but it is one that the viewer will have to determine all on their own.

These are just a sneak peek of our collection.

Stay tuned for the release of a limited edition Iphone 4 cover featuring one of these designs.

Can't wait to share what we have created with you :)

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The Sookie Chronicles....the latest installment

We last left Sookie and her brave adventurers searching for The Magic Chicken Balloons that they were certain had been taken by the evil Lock Monster King Crostosti... do they come across this precious possession?












Will Duffly ever be able to speak again? You wont have to wait too long to find out!

Window into our World ...

Walls of inspiration in Sandra's home studio.

Early stages of a new work.

Some of our clothing designs, available on http://www.redbubble.com/people/imok

A very special project we are working on, we have just completed the entire alphabet using watercolours. Now it's on to numbers!

Fashion Inspiration board. We both LOVE fashion and are hopelessly addicted to buying magazines. We used to fold the corner over of all the things we dreamed of owing or emulating. With sooo many magazines laying around we have now taken to tearing out all the pics we love and putting it on a board. It really does help the shopping process and getting things you actually want and will wear. Fun to create one each season. Here is my latest!

What things inspire you, are your walls covered with things you love and make you smile?

Underground ART Market - Opening Night

The Owner of Underground ART Space, talented artist and great friend - Kere M Baker.

This artwork is HUGE and greets you as you come down the stairs of the gallery, just beautiful! By Bryony Hudson.

Close up of one of our works in the show. Swimming In Ink by IMOK




IMOK table display - Mini Canvases, Initial block canvases and Limited Edition mounted prints from our Girl Series.



Me and some of our work.

What a great turn out, great afternoon of good company, gorgeous art and bubbly :)

"I said I could!" and "Swimming In Ink by IMOK

Gorgeous works by Kristie Stenning

Underground ART Market is NOW SHOWING! Open until Sunday 19th September

1/294 Sydney Road, Balgowlah

Saturday 10am-4pm

Sun, Mon & Tues 10am-2pm

Sneak Peek of Underground ART Market

This Saturday 4th September sees the opening of The Underground ART Market. We are very excited to be showing our work along side such a diverse range of Australian Contemporary Artists.

For the first time IMOK card packs will be available for purchase. Each pack contains 3 different designs and are limited edition.

One of our most popular works of all time IMOK Land is available as a 2 part framed print.

"What a great day" IMOK 2010- acrylic & ink on stretched canvas

We would love to see you on Saturday for an afternoon of bubbly and art!

Winterland Wrap-Up

A big thanks for those who came down to the CarriageWorks and visited our stall over the weekend. We met some really friendly peeps and had a great time. Did anyone check it out over the weekend, would love to know your thoughts? Here are some pics...

Our stall, we LOVED the blue and white wintery stands - super cute!

The amazing installation piece hanging from the ceiling in the CarriageWorks.

The ice-skating rink. This was very popular and looked like stacks of fun!

Us, prior to the sniffles setting in! :(

IMOK Badges, Mini Canvases and brand new Greeting Cards.

Stuart and Vinh from Quantum Compass having fun with our toys, Q-bert and Eddy, thanks for coming down guys!

Winterland is on for one more week this weekend, if you plan on going rug up!!!

"How do you guys paint together?"

This is a question we have been asked many times by a variety of people and something that definitely sparks a great deal of curiosity. So we thought why not share the moment when we decided to combine powers and actually work on the same piece at the same time.

Living in different states we had grown accustom to scanning in sketches to use in various Photoshop graphics or photographing our individual artworks and asking each other for the all important critique over email.

After developing our characters together over time, our style has become very similar and the perfect compliment to each other.

So finally when we were in Melbourne and had a spare weekend we grabbed a blank canvas and thought, why the hell haven't we done this sooner?



Flicking through my sketch book we picked out a picture, something which began as some line work and a character added later. This formed the basis of the canvas.




First step was to prime the canvas and then begin with a lead pencil drawing outline - we both draw in the characters, swirls and other elements...then the fun begins, colouring in!





We used watercolours, acrylic and inks for this work, I concentrated on the black line work at this point and Sandra worked her magic on the blue watercolour washes.





This definitely is the most exciting point in a work, we just grabbed the paint brushes and went with it. We didn't discuss it, just let it happen.

Working on this was one of those heightened moments, we could just feel that something special was happening, something that we wanted to try and do as often as we could. We named the piece "The Time is Now" because we really felt like it was!




Looking back at the process and people's fascination with how we do what we do, we realised it was the mutual respect we have for each others creative talents that allowed the process to happen so naturally. To this day it is one of our favourite works.


An amazing artist and now friend, Luke Jurevicius is the lucky owner of this work, ah Luke, perhaps the subject of an upcoming post me thinks!


So there you have it, the story of our first work together. Thanks for reading :)

The Time is Now - 2008