Christmas Cards 2013 Part 2.

Completed Christmas cards, I couldn't find any envelopes that were to my liking so I made them using origami, cards which un-tuck out to a pin wheel then open out to reveal the Christmas card.

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You can now buy a selection of my drawings on Society6! Also in the form of ipod/ipad covers, tote bags, mugs, cards and more.
Just click this link (or copy and paste into your browser):

http://society6.com/LucyPerryman

Currently there is only a small amount of work, but more is soon to follow.  

Cold Turkey (Christmas Cards 2013)

Have spent the past couple of evenings creating this years Christmas cards. This year have gone for a 'Cold Turkey' theme. Created through hand drawing the turkeys in scarfs, then scanning into the computer before editing, adding some colour and making into a repeat pattern. They are now ready to send to the printers.

Original Turkeys

Do you like these??!

I have entered a competition on the ohh dear website to become a new contributor, I have three designs produced onto cushions, each priced at £24.95. Perfect for all the family, friends and vague acquaintances this Christmas! See below for designs submitted and links to website:

 BlackBirds:

http://ohhdeer.com/competitions/pillow-fight-round-ii/9000/blackbirds

Birds on Grass:

http://ohhdeer.com/competitions/pillow-fight-round-ii/8991/birds-grass

 Great Tits eat Grasshoppers:

 http://ohhdeer.com/competitions/pillow-fight-round-ii/8977/great-tits-eat-grasshoppers

We Eat Grasshoppers (Digital Version)

Very first repeat pattern created on Photoshop! Yes the previous Great Tits eat Grasshoppers was created by lining each individual image in line horizontally and vertically to get it perfect - very time consuming I can assure you!

Great Tits eat Grasshoppers

Great Tits eat Grasshoppers

Honiton Hornets Logo

I was asked by the ladies of Honiton Hornets Hockey Club to re-produce their logo. This allows them to apply their logo to newsletters and such like.

Christmas Cards

I know, I know it's nowhere near Christmas, but with all this wintery cold weather still kicking around and it not feeling overly easterly. I thought I could get away with putting up Christmas 2012 and 2011 cards! 

Christmas Robins (2011) had a selection of Glittery backgrounds including blue, purple, gold, green and silver, very cute and small!

Reindeer Stag (2012) was created using lino print. Which were all green prints, with different glittery baubles, as Christmas cards need glitter in my book!

Great Tit Cards

Great Tit cards, measurements; 109mm x 111mm, they are cut from one piece, each card is individual due to the string stamping process, they are then painted with watercolour and detailed in with ink.

Great Crested Grebe

Great Crested Grebe, Biro and Watercolour

Perching on Grass #2

Photoshopped drawing combining photography and bird imagery. In the same style as a pervious drawing  Perching on Grass.

There was an old woman...

Watercolour and Ink

This is the creation of Mrs Edwina Doorston, the old woman who swallowed a fly or in this case Octavious, the cat! A interpretation of the ryhme 'There was an old woman who swallowed a fly.

Watercolour and Ink

Starlings Over West Pier, Brighton

Starlings Over West Pier, Brighton
Watercolour and Ink
297 x 210mm

Blackboards for St Patrick's Weekend at The Druid's Head, Brighton

Board for inside Pub

I was asked by The Druid's Head to create some Blackboards to publicise their St Patrick's weekend event which included live music. They wanted leprechaun's, shamrocks and I felt that a rainbow with a pot of gold (and Guiness) would also be fitting! They were created using acrylic paint, which although won't be easy to remove, was perfectly weather proof, for the snow and rain.



Outside Board #2



Outside Board #1







Some Birds Screen Prints

Back in the begining of January this year I attended a day course at Ink Spot Press, I spent the day producing and reproducing prints of a stylised Some Birds print. As it was a day course there could only be two layers of print, therefore I used red and blue on one layer. As I pulled the paint through the screen the colours mixed each time providing individual prints on a variety of papers and even a tea-towel.

Top two drawings; Screen Print on Black Sugar Paper.

Bottom Left; Screen Print on Oatmeal Paper.

Bottom Right; Colour Screen print on Black Sugar Paper.

(I will get better quality photos on asap)

We Eat Grasshoppers (Grasshopper or Another Bird)

This piece contains small birds that eat grasshoppers; blue tits, great tits, robins, sparrows, and of course grasshoppers! This piece was a labour of love, and took a long time to complete. However, I hope to add more drawings to this collection. 

Biro and watercolour size 841x594mm

Perching on Grass

Birds from the 'Some Birds' poster, Photoshopped into a photograph taken on Grandparents farm.

Some Birds Prints

Watercolour versions of the Birds were scanned into the computer then drawn in Illustrator. Creating these prints. Size 420 x 297mm. Have also screen printed these designs, images to follow.

Original Bird Drawings



Sparrow; Watercolour and Biro



Magpie; Watercolour and Biro



Wagtail; Watercolour and Biro

Robin; Watercolour and Biro



Bulfinch; Watercolour and Biro

 

Great Tit; Watercolour and Biro

Mothers Day

As my Dad text me to remind me the other day (not that anyone has ever recieved a late card...) this Sunday is Mothers day. So I have knocked up some cards using simple string prints in black ink, with watercolour and text in old school, and a personal favourite, DECAdry.

Each of these cards are produced from a single A4 page of print. As the images are blindly printed there is only a vague knowledge of  how the prints will end up looking, in terms of overlapping and quality of print. It also means that each card is indiviual due to the imperfections and where the image has been cut.