Fave things to draw at the mo are feathers and geometric pattern. This is my first drawing of the two together. It's a work in progress. More to follow as I've just taken delivery of a lino print kit (excited but nervous!) Thinking my designs might be a little too detailed.
Wednesday 14 November 2012
Surface Pattern
I would really like to know more about silk screen printing and this design i did quite quickly. It's not great but I could see this on wallpaper or bedding. Might look into doing a course.
Vintage Illustrations
My latest project are these little beauties. Loving the current trend of vintage animal illustrations. I bought some cheap deep box frames and painted them. Found a selection of royalty free illustrations and mounted them onto pages of text from an old book and this is the result. I think they work quite well?
3 Little Birds
Two Sugar's Please
I did these and forgot about them. Might try and do them on nicer china. Maybe a cup and saucer. Just simple line drawings of botanical tea/coffee/sugar plants. I used cheap white plates and a Pebeo Porcelain marker. Which you can fire in the oven and they become dishwasher proof. I've found the pens to be a bit unreliable. One minute the ink flows well and the next it's faint. Perhaps it's my technique?! I've read that you can use Sharpie marker pens and fire them. Not sure how well this would work though. Apologies for poor picture quality.
Time for Tea
Thursday 3 May 2012
More for the jubilee...
Wednesday 11 April 2012
Another village...
This latest illustration was a commission by my good pal Sarah Young for her parents joint 65th birthday. Another of my made up streets, this time St.Osyth. From left to right: The Kings Arms pub, some of The Priory, the church entrance and the Old Mill (which is no longer there). The detail on The Priory took a while & was the hardest but I think they liked it....hope so!
Wednesday 28 March 2012
God Save The Queen...
Monday 19 March 2012
Vintage cake stands....
Finally got around to making these little lovelies. With the help of my husband, a v.powerful drill & a diamond drill bit, we got right to it. I've used a selection of vintage china plates (mainly Meakin). The handles i bought from e-bay and sprayed them these yummy pinks & green. Good enough to eat(off)!
Thursday 8 March 2012
Up-cycled plates
Friday 3 February 2012
Modelled by Morri
Thursday 26 January 2012
'Rock me baby'
Sunday 22 January 2012
Me old china...
I was collecting the odd bit of china, buying porcelain pens & other bits from craft websites and sketching some ideas. I'd been shown an article on the effortlessly cool Esther Coombs and was following her blog. She combines the delicate floral print of the vintage china with her brilliant architectural line drawings. The perfect juxtaposition. She was holding workshops at the fab little tearoom High Tea at Highgate in london. What could be better than a couple of hours spent scoffing yummy cake, downing coffee & drawing on a Sunday morning?! Add in to the mix that my husband had taken the kids to the park....I was in heaven. Here are a couple of plates I've done. Yes, you've probably guessed. They're down at The Loft.
Saturday 21 January 2012
My attempt at trompe l'oel
Not just for arts sake, this also works as an info sign for tide times (essential if you have your car parked down at the water!) and the way to the loo at The Loft
'Love Tollesbury'
A good place to start....
I have always enjoyed illustration. When I was younger I would constantly draw ballerinas & horses. Even at uni when studying fashion, the design process was my strongest and most enjoyable part.
I love and am totally in awe of fashion illustrator Julie Verhoeven. Also, I'm a huge fan of Charlotte Mann who does amazing, densely scaled 1:1 drawings, using black marker pens. I'm mostly into line drawing and seriously rate Maija Louekari as well.
Working on and trying to develop my style for the last year, I kind of stumbled on an idea. I was drawing buildings and boats in my local area. Bit boring yeah? But then I thought if I took interesting and key buildings, merge them together on one street. Add some contemporary flowers/seed heads I might have something.
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