Back on the Blog!

This blog has been quiet for too long! A mix of moving house, not having internet access and other excuses has meant a terrible gap between posting, but that is over now. One of the things I've been working on, and just just finished, is this website for my sister Sasha who is an artist, and who has owned her domain name for years without having anything to see there. And now she has. Next up is my own website, now that I've learned so much more about how to build them properly!

Queen of Hearts

I've been a terrible poster over the last few weeks, as I've been moving home. The internet connection is still to come, but I thought I'd pop on this illustration I did yesterday. I wanted to do a nice version of the usual playing card designs, which when you look closely at them, are really quite ugly! And of course the romantic in me chose the Queen of Hearts as the one to do!

They Draw & Cook

Have you come across the website/project They Draw & Cook? It's a brilliant idea, set up by brother and sister designers, and the idea is that people contribute a recipe that they've illustrated however they like, and perhaps one day they'll be made into a book. I sent in a recipe a few weeks ago and the other day it got to the top of the list and was posted! Click here for a larger version.

Hair Slide How To

My most recent DIY project for the wonderful Small magazine blog is up (and in fact has been up for a while, I've been somewhat lax) here.

Yogarama

A friend is about to start teaching yoga classes to pregnant women (pre and post birth), and asked me to design a logo...

Book By Its Cover

I've been wanting to try and design a few book covers for my portfolio, here are my first two, both books I have at home (trying to conjure up some sunshine)...

Rosy

My latest pattern...

Looking Up

It's been a while since I've posted a picture for Illustration Friday, but I really liked the theme this week - star gazing - and thought I'd do a simple drawing for it...

Nice Cuppa

I'd love my illustrations to be used on packaging one day, so I thought I'd give it a go as a portfolio project. May I introduce my fictional tea range (not coming soon to a store near you)!

{click for a clearer view}

French Birds

A while ago I did a screenprinting workshop at work and this was the result (might be familiar to eagle-eyed visitors!).

Here are some brand new designs I've done along the same theme...

Birds and Bees

My - slightly belated - July craft project for Small magazine is up on their blog now. It's a little cardboard mobile that was really fun to make and illustrate, but very hard to photograph with all those characters swinging around all over the place!

Animated

I've been thinking about animating illustrations, so decided to give it a go in a very basic way, to use on the homepage of my website. Pixar has nothing to fear as yet!!

News Agent

I've been very excited this week about having just signed up with the great illustration agency Lemonade Illustration. My portfolio isn't on their website yet, but I thought I'd share a few of the illustrators represented by them that I particularly like...

Oscar Armelles

Neil Rook

Céline Malépart

David Pintor

All images via Lemonade

Another Cuppa

I'm pattern-crazy and really enjoying doing them! Here are tea cups, and I have my sights set on fairy cakes next.

Three, Two, One

Hmmm, the days of posting an illustration every day seem very distant... but in the interest of more frequent blogging, here's a new pattern to kick start things!!