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.