Alan G. Brooks - Art and Illustration

Or  Here we go again Gouache and inks airbrush painting. Early nineties. Alan G Brooks - Jay M Brooks

Brumtasia more art / clips from story   Alan G Brooks - Jay M Brooks

Alternate Train Time lines . . .  New Street Station. Birmingham. U.K. Alternate Timelines Alternate Train Times Go to Website                                                                                         From some newer pieces to the ongoing sci fi and retro art going on at the website for Alan G Brooks and Jay M Brooks that are becoming major set pieces with no particular end in site.                                                                                                          ...

 Level 42 . .                                                                              Level 42 The Chinese Way 1982 Airbrush painting record sleeve watercolour and inks. "Out of Sight Out of Mind" Level 42. 1983 airbrush painting on board. Gouache and inks. 7 and 12 inch record sleeve art BROOKSWAVE Alan G Brooks Jay Brooks

 Iceland Spar Icelandic Spirit Iceland Spar , the Icelandic medieval Sun Stone used by the Vikings on their ships to locate the direction of the Sun in dark, foggy and overcast skies. Hekla Hekla is an active volcano in the south of Iceland. During the Middle Ages the Icelandic Norse called the volcano the "Gateway to Hell' The artwork above represents an adventure into Hekla, Icelandic Spar and the Island of Alderney in the Channel Isles where I used to spend my early childhood years each Summer. I was being treated by my Homeopathic doctor with Hekla for a tumour at the time of the revelations that unloaded themselves as the painting above.  I no longer have the tumour. But my fascination and respect with minerals, crystals and the earth itself grows continuously. Artwork is a combination of acrylic paint, airbrush, ink and photoshop Alan G Brooks Jay Brooks BROOKSWAVE

Part Two  I saw Black Sabbath at  Birmingham Town Hall in around and about 1969 / 1970 It cost me ten shillings and sixpence . Thats not even a pound. The previous year I saw - at the Town Hall again - Led Zeppelin for the same price. I call that watching history in the making! Ozzy Osbourne Incoming! Kings Heath fly by #3 2024 / 2025   There is no wonder that they call Birmingham  the Home of Heavy Metal ! Birmingham - Home of Heavy Metal Brookswave Jacket Design 2025 BROOKSWAVE Alan G Brooks Jay Brooks

B Movie, Pulp and SciFi 2006 - 2009 #1 Maxed media art this page. . . airbrush, pencils, acrylic paints, photography and 3d modelling Taking a look back at some earlier Brookswave sci-fi and B Movie projects. 2006 - 2009  Alan G. Brooks - Jay Brooks BROOKSWAVE #2                                                                                     Drone Footage - Tunnel Exploration - Dr Clockheart Series 2006 The story of Dr Clockheart is the story of the unrecognised  now. It is ironical that to tell a story of the N O W it is best addressed as a fictional tale of a somewhere, a someday, in the future perhaps. Surely the things that the artwork and story describe are not "going on" as we speak? Are they? I mean . . . that would be too much. An overload. Well, if poisoned ...

Still Life Jimi Hendrix - 'Winter Still Life' - 10 x 8 inches oil on board. Pink Floyd - 68 - Syd Barrett. Acrylic and pencil on paper. 12 x 5 inches approx   Alternative York Road - Kings Heath 1967 - [ or not ] Above - so, after the previous post that got me thinking about Silver Street , York Road , Alcester Rd Sth etc and how it would be if Jimi Hendrix did do an impromptu 'concert' in Kings Heath - seeing as he was at the Ritz and not playing officially there that night. Maybe he'd spill out and over into the street somewhere? Well, anyway - it made for an interesting flight of fancy for a fleeting moment or two. Those fleeting moments have been a surreal platform for my imagination thats lingered now for over 56 years or so! Time Flies! Alan G Brooks

 Music - Art - Illustration I have put up some more pieces on my website that are sci fi and music themed.  I am settling in to work again after settling in to the new house. I am taking commissions again in music, sci fi and fantasy related art - cover art, logo design - the works. Back in the saddle is - [I guess] - what I'm saying - so Onwards and Upwards and back to it. See you there - gallery  Alan G Brooks Design

 For all those in Lockdown - caged - chained and despairing . . . . . Prayer 300 Way Out I did the picture above around 1999, 1998 even. It shows a man in a stone circle - in reverence - who at the same time has yet to understand that he is not only encircled by these stones but at the same time enslaved by them.  Just before he is to awaken to the fact that he is imprisoned by that which he is in awe of, his attention will be taken by the cross which is starting to appear before him. The cross is within a crystal encasement, but will be revealed fully to the man as soon as he gives his attention to it.  For the hard of hearing it is well worth remembering to harken unto the words of the book of Malachi [4:5] where it is explained in the last words of the Old Testament -  Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: and [4:6] And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the ch...

Drawing of guitarist Steve Vai. 2015. This picture was made around 2015 - 2016 while working on the first tour artworks for Generation Axe. roughing in #1 roughing in #2 I found the above photo in my Steve Vai Generation Axe files. I did quite a few pieces for Steve at that period in time. Concert posters, promo art, Passes and Tee's. Check out Alan Brooks Design. Blues for Dust Art Alan G Brooks Design

 Pearl of the Cobra Pilot / Navigator #1 / Page art Flying Ship Operatives - storyboard / animation design Title Card Page art - a retro sci fi noir adventure -  More animation plotting / plus graphic novel double page Medieval / Medi evil Ship crash-land - page art Two Worlds / Fight scene / page art. Some bits and pieces from Pearl of the Cobra developed with Jay Brooks back in Illinois. These pieces / pages and designs were all done in a multitude of ways. Jay did computer modeling . We both did photography and I did the majority of digital drawing and hand painting. We handed pieces back and forth to one another, cleaning up as we went along. Details of the Pearl of the Cobra and it's legend, mystery and supernatural abilities are documented here . It is up to you to decide if such a thing does indeed exist or not. Alan Brooks

and why not . . . ? Jimi Hendrix - "Impression 67" - Alan Brooks Oil on board "Floral Peace" - Knight Herald - Alan Brooks Acrylic on board My roots were bound in the late sixties - early seventies. Big O, Oz Magazine, Underground Comics and Posters, International Times, Mati Klarwein, Ernst Fuchs, Rick Griffin, Robert Crumb, Martin Sharp - and on and on and on. Where does the time go? Onwards and Upwards Alan G Brooks

Continuing  . . . . . . I showed some edited highlights from the Flying Saucer project Jay Brooks and I worked on back in 2006 / 2007. I have taken the color out of the pieces so that they ring more true to the 1950's B movie and Sci Fi tv fodder of the day back then. The likes of the Outer limits, Twilight Zone - and children shows shows such as Fireball XL5 and Space Patrol all had an impact. That show with its black and white imagery, robots and strange characters might just have been directed by David Lynch as far as I am concerned. Way ahead of it's time and equally as spooky! Page art from the project. Page art / panels. These pieces and the previous post have artwork that was allowing us to experiment with how my own stories might develop in a retro future way. The Doctor Clockheart story and artwork have a retro future look that echoes some of the experimentation that was tried out in some of the Flying Saucer project and art. Information downlo...

Versus the Earth . . . The Way We Were . . . Some notes and thoughts to go with artwork for an old project from around  2006 ish.  My son and I used to watch all the old sci fi movies and sword and sorcery epics while he was growing up in Birmingham in the eighties. We particularly liked Jason and the Argonauts, the animated tv shows of a Saturday morning - Star Fleet - Battle Star Galactica - Star Wars of course - and  . . well, I could go on and on. But we pretty much devoured it all. It was great fun. So when the opportunity came where we could work alongside some of those shows and people that inspired us - you'd better believe we took it! Overkill! I have posted the color versions of some of the artwork made for the Flying Saucer project shown here over at   the website Cover art I have posted the black and white versions of the work here. I believe these versions really are in keeping with the feel and atmosphere of the shows...

 . . . almost forgot Onwards and Upwards - Alan G. Brooks - watercolors Above is another piece from the similar timeline as Watching and Waiting. It is painted in watercolour, gouache and inks on illustration board. Probably from the mid nineties - 1996 I should guess. I meant to put it up with the "Watching  / Mole" painting - and actually thought I had.  I see here [and with the opportunity of hindsight,] that once again I am depicting breaking from one "dimension" into another.  The whale here breaks the surface and catches a glimpse of another world temporarily.  The mole similarly strives to break through a different surface and moves from dark to light.   Onwards and Upwards.  Alan G.Brooks