You Make It Real

Another wedding present papercut to share, this one has lyrics from the James Morrison song You Make It Real - super romantic!!

Oscars frocks!

I've been doing some work on my illustration portfolio, and thought it would be nice to show something a bit more fashion-y than usual... here are some Oscars frocks, hopefully the actresses ring a bell!

I Have Never...

It seems to be papercut city around here at the moment... here's a recent one for commissioned as a wedding present, quoting a poem by E. E. Cummings that was read during the ceremony. Doing these papercuts is giving me an education in romantic quotes and lyrics!

Art Attack

Last week I had an artistically inspiring couple of days, visiting the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea, and the Tim Walker exhibition at Somerset House (highly recommend both)! Here are my favourite artists from the AAF:

Jo Taylor

 Katty McMurray

 Miles Heseltine

 Natasha Kumar

 Phil Shaw (look closely at the titles!)

 Datsun Tran

 Irene McCann

Rob Tucker (my top fave I think)

Rainbow Polish

With all this changeable weather we've been having I've seen more rainbows in the last 2 weeks than ever before, one right over the sea so that you could see the start and end. And that's a roundabout way of introducing a new beauty illustration I've been working on this afternoon!!

Short Cut

I've recently had quite a drastic haircut, from really quite long to pretty short!! It was time for a change, although I'm still not sure if it's a change for the better (!) but anyway, I thought I should update my picture on my blog and website to reflect reality, so here's the new me (plus the initial sketches I chose from):

Cut!

A couple of papercut commissions from the past week - a wedding heart and a new christening design that I was really pleased with...

I Love You Because...

This is a papercut I've just finished - some lyrics from the lovely and romantic Leon Payne song "I Love You Because", commissioned as a wedding present...

One Kiss...

My latest papercut, commissioned as a first anniversary present from a wife to her husband...

Neal's Yard Remedies

At the end of last year, I worked on a really lovely project for Neal's Yard Remedies (through my agent Lemonade) - a pattern design for their new mother & baby gift boxes. Since then I've been checking their website and looking in their shops every now and then to see if the products have been launched, and hey presto, the other day I saw that they had been! Very exciting to see them in the flesh, and although the design has been slightly tweaked here and there since my last version (see swatch at the bottom of the post),  I think they look really lovely!

Happy Congratulations

A couple of cards I made for friends last week, using some lovely patterned papers I bought the other day - total bargain from the cheap and cheerful Tiger...

Flower Power

A bright new pattern for a bit of a grey day...

I Can Colour Everything

I'm very excited that finally a colouring book I illustrated at the end of last year has been published and is available to buy on Amazon! It was the biggest project I've worked on, and was a real challenge - it really did feel like I was drawing everything - but I'm really please with the result. Here's the front cover and some of my favourites from the baby animals section.

Buy a copy here for any little artists in your life!

House Party

Spring Has Sprung!

Do you know the great website Print & Pattern? Well, they have a couple of really inspiring books out and just ran a call for submissions to an upcoming Kids publication which I just entered at the 11th hour. Here are a couple of suitably springy patterns that I sent in...