I thought I’d share snippets of some illustrations I’m working on for a non-profit organisation. They use a simple colour palette based on the client’s brand colours. The brief was to make them characterful and activisty.
The first of only ten prints of this illustration has arrived – I’ve signed it and numbered it and will send it out now. It’s so richly coloured and is printed onto textured art paper. I’m really happy with it! Get your copy here!
I listed the things I’ve got on over the next four weeks and I thought I’d do a little blog post to share. My job isn’t and never has been just one thing, and I like to work on very different projects simultaneously, finding that they inform and inspire each other in rather lovely ways.
A List of Things
I have a few days clear between here and there so if you need something doing get in touch ASAP. I’m booking more substantial projects from the last week of September now.
Exciting news – I’ll be showing some of my paintings and screen prints for the first time ever in a show with amazing willow sculptor Woody Fox at the Art House Gallery in Aberystwyth in September.
The exhibition will be called Wild Sight and it will run from Friday 9th September to Saturday 1st October. I’m really very excited about it. I’m starting my two-year part-time Master’s in Illustration: Authorial Content at Falmouth in September so it feels like a real time of new beginnings and adventures and such for me.
The work I’ll be showing at the exhibition is personal rather than commissioned and reflects on themes of nature, power, death and innocence. Expect hares, stags and skulls. I’ve painted for many years but have only just started to work out what I want to explore with my personal work.
There’ll be prints and cards of my work for sale at the gallery. I do hope you can make it!
One of my followers on Twitter got in touch asking whether he could commission me for a tattoo design. He wanted the tattoo to honour a story told by his late grandmother about the waxing and waning of the moon, and had a very clear brief about what he wanted.
I created the work in pencil and sent it over. He requested a couple of small amends which I made for him, and once the drawing was approved I inked it. He wanted the drawing to be black and white inking, i.e. no shades of grey, so the craters of the moon had to be created with hatching.
Here’s the final ink work:
And here is a photo (taken in a mirror) of the final tattoo. He’s going to send me another picture when it’s healed.
