Wednesday, 27 March 2013

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

Monday, 25 March 2013

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

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

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




Monday, 18 March 2013

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

Tuesday, 12 March 2013

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

Tuesday, 5 March 2013

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.