a little blog of art

I bought a Lomolito in NY and I've got got the prints back. These are my favourite ten. I took all of them apart from 'My field of yellow' which was taken by my youngest brother.

 

Inspired by this amazing book I decided to have a go at making pop ups. I started simple with a custard monster, a little more daring with my troupe of teal monster, and finally the white woods. I really love the shadows they create, so I've photographed those too.

Is is a rather cool website. The premise is that you empty the contents of your pocket or bag onto your scanner, add your face and scan. The results are actually really interesting. Here's mine:

 

Finbar is a wise and all knowing rabbit who comings many flavours, including original, minty fresh and pirate. I cut him out of lino and printed him onto paper and fabric. I have loads of these prints and lots of little stuffed Finbars too, so I'm going to put some on Etsy went I have time. If you'd like one just let me know.

 

Note pirate Finbar's sequined peg leg and daisy eye patch. My friend thinks they look like a couple, in which case the pink one could be Fionulla, but Finbar* is so manly he can wear pink and florals at the same time.

*Finbar and Fionulla are Irish names and means fair head or white hair, which is appropriate since their hair and features are white. 

Bernard is stubborn and munchy (my friend came up with this and, and by this she means he munches stuff like cheetos noisily), but he enjoys the cherry blossoms. I made him out of lovely plaid fabric that LaidOutInLavender sent me and blue felt that I painted and machine stitched on to. Felt is the worst surface to paint onto ever, except knitted wool or maybe an actual sheep, but I think it turned out well.

 

 

Oh, and did I tell you I got into university (to study illustration)? I had my interview last Tuesday and I didn’t think it went that great, but whilst the interviewer was walking back to meet my mother so he could apologize to her (they made a mistake that kept me waiting around for over 45 minutes and she made a bit of a scene about it) he told me that he wanted me on the course and he hoped to see me this September. He checked that my mother didn’t live locally first, though.

This is a commission I actually started a while ago but but college and the like took over. The comissioner was incredible patient and over the Easter holidays I got these finished. They are a mixture of watercolour, collage and ink. I personally think she did an awesome job framing them.

I'm back, and yes, I had an amazing time.

I have entered Moo's latest competition to design stickers for a new sticker book. These are my five entries, which you can find and vote for on this website, you know, if you like them. Hopefully they won't be as hard to find as the last time I entered a Moo competition. Near the bottom of the page there there are the entries and if you click on the arrow button a few times you find mine. I think you mine need to sign up to vote, but it's really the least painful website signing up I have ever done. Go on, do it because you love me. The prize is a year's pro account on Flickr, which would be really cool.

In other news I'm going to New York tomorrow, so expect lots of pictures when I return.

Meet Tina the disco fox. I really need to think of a name for these creations. Anyway, you can expect lots more of them because this is what I'm doing for my college final major project. I had been really worried that I'd have to do something big and serious and impressive but instead I'm making '3D illustrations with textile techniques' which I think is going to be just about the most fun ever.

All of these are made of recycled paper of sorts, mostly old catalogues and leaftlets.