Chilly Chick

Post Secret

Earlier this week I popped along to the RCA Secret exhibition - where the Royal College of Art ask lots of students and artists (some very famous) to make a piece of work on a postcard, and they're all sold for £45, and you only find out once you've bought one who created it. I think it's a great idea, and here are some of my favourites out of a whopping 2,700 on display):

Rolling Out The Red Carpet

A few months ago I did some illustrations of some of the Oscar dresses from last year, and then suddenly the 2013 Oscars came around, and I thought I'd do the same again... (prizes for anyone who can guess all the actresses!!) (well, not prizes, but glory).

Final(ly) Cut

This has been a long time coming... but I've finally stocked my online shop with my latest papercuts - the tile ones (see below), and these wordy ones. A couple of the quotes are from Einstein (which surprised me when I found them - I'd always assumed Einstein quotes would be sciency and unintelligible, but it turns out many of them are just lovely).

Stand and deliver

I've been working on some new illustrations for my agency Lemonade to use on their stand at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in March. Here's a preview!

Papercut preview

As mentioned in my last post, I've been working on some new tile-inspired papercuts. Here is my first batch, which will be on sale in my shop soon...

Christmas Tile

In the spirit of thriftiness, I made all my Christmas presents this year. Here's one - a tile-inspired papercut with gold leaf 'grout' for my sister Daisy. I'm planning on doing more of these to sell in my online shop early in the new year...

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...