Ripple Effect

This week's Illustration Friday theme is 'Ripple'. Seeing as it's summer I thought I'd go for the ice cream topping sense of the word!

Poetic License

I've been illustrating some poems for a friend as part of a top-secret project, the nature of which means that these two (a couple of my favourites) might seem a bit bizarre out of context but maybe you can make up your own...!

Sort Of Semaphore

Doodles

Illustration Friday

The latest Illustration Friday word is "ahead". The old hare and tortoise story was the first thing that came to mind, but I've just realised a London Marathon theme would have been more fitting. I don't think either of these animals has just done 26 miles!!

Guess Work

Guess the theme for this week's Illustration Friday!!

Tea Time

Last weekend on my holiday by the sea we had a birthday tea party for a friend on the balcony of the house we were staying in. Inspired by Cornish tradition we made a Victoria sponge cake and turned it into a Clotted Cream Tea Cake by sandwiching it with jam and clotted cream. It was completely delicious and is highly recommended!!

Flowers On Board

I was just about to throw away (well, recycle) a small and anonymous piece of grey board at work today when I decided to save it to use for a picture. This is what I think whenever I flatten a brown cardboard box or fling away some foamboard offcuts, but it seems overkill to pilfer every last piece of used paper from the office, and I don't have the room at home! Anyway, flowers came to mind, quelle surprise, et voila...

Rescue Mission

Rescue is this week's Illustration Friday theme... this is inspired by a colleague's local newspaper story of a cat stuck up a tree for three days (it's a cliché but really, this was front page news last week)!! My cat seems perfectly happy where it is, as is probably often the case.

Best Before

The lastest theme for Illustration Friday is 'expired'. It stumped me a bit, until earlier today at work I was changing over some flowers and throwing away a bunch of roses past their best. There is still a beauty about dead flowers and it does seem a bit sacreligious to consign them to the bin, but there you go. So anyway, expired (in sharp contrast to the post below!)...

The Underground

The latest Illustration Friday brief is 'subterranean'. I'd planned for a rabbit in its warren reading a book by lamplight, but it turned out entirely differently, and somewhat closer to reality...

Brave

The theme for this week's Illustration Friday is... brave. I had to really think about what to do and wanted to depict it in a not-too-literal way. I think that jumping out of a plane is very brave - and a bit crazy but I think if I could pluck up the courage I might try it one day! Maybe.

Daily Draw

This (well, last) week's Illustration Friday theme is 'perspective'. I didn't fancy a struggle with foreshortening, so went for a slightly quirky interpretation..

Daily Draw

This is my sister's dog, Poppy. When she goes for a walk on the beach she often pick stones/rocks up in her mouth and carries them along with her. It is excruciating to watch, but she seems perfectly happy!! She's getting on a bit, and her muzzle is nearly all white. This is sort of by way of introduction to my sister Sasha Harding, who's an artist and who I'm going to post about properly tomorrow...

Lizard Lounge

Final installment of my animals 1-10 series... voila!

Daily Draw

Animal Safari

Next up in my series of number and animals is quite an exotic pair...

Daily Draw

Gosh the weeks are flying past, I can't believe it's already time for another Illustration Friday. The latest theme is 'propagate', which I took in its chinese whispers-esque incarnation...

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Amphibians and Arachnids

Daily Draw

Some expressions