Saturday, October 31, 2009

The Happy Mag ...

So what were all those kids and bicycles about?


My submission for the Anorak Mag cover design competition...

Its OK, but I feel quietly dissatisfied with the outcome ...

Things I've learnt:
1. I LOVE making - and the 2D-3D crossover
2. BUT it takes a LONG TIME ...
3. And can be a whole lot of frustrating (lucky for me to have the best husband in the world and his collection of camera and lighting equipment)
4. Will go back to plain 'ol 2D and bring the scissors and glue out only for special occasions ...

Set up - oh yes, those laboratory clamps come in handy ...


Thursday, October 29, 2009

A boy and his bike ...


Thanks for all the comments on the last post - the most important thing I learnt was: forget translucent vs opaque; the real issue was that the bike wasn't 'simple' enough. Needed less detail ... now our young man can have a bicycle much more suited to him; that he can cycle to the park and lie in the grass and enjoy the sunshine with ...

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Translucent? Or opaque?


That is the current question ...

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Babes and bikes ...

Today, I have been mostly drawing children lying in fields...


and bicycles ...

Illustration can be a very slow process sometimes ... sigh ...

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Picnic time...?

It's nice to go for a picnic .... but you gotta watch out for those soda bottles with lives of their own!!!

This is actually work-in-progress for another project; but I quite like where it is right now ... so I thought I'd make a version that stops here :)

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Bagheera Kiplingi

Inspired by our newly discoverd herbivorous arachnid friend :) Trying to do it in autumnal inspired colours ...

Monday, October 12, 2009

Liverpoodlian?

Working on some briefs based on some UK cities ... this is my attempt at Liverpool (I thought I'd do a city I've actually been to ...). Here are a couple of 'work-in-progress' versions ...

Something about it is still not quite right.... maybe I should just let it be and move on to some other stuff for a bit to clear my head of it ...

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Enameling ...

My its been quiet here ... hasn't it?

This last week has just been rather hectic and I've only just found some time to sit down and tell you about wat I've been up to - most importantly - an enamelling workshop!

On the bottom left you can see my test piece of copper (yes, I
had laid the liquid enamel on a little too thick!), and then the other two pieces was me playing with some microorganism inspired images ... It was great fun and the tutor was fab - and I'm very inspired to use enameling this year ... just have to work out in what context to use it, and for what projects. It is actually quite a difficult process to learn to control - but when you can, the results are stunning. I'd actually wanted to learn enameling on glass so I could do some work on old labware ... maybe can still do that at some point.

Apart from that, I've also been to London to see Origin part 1; and potter round the Tate Modern (well, mostly its bookshop ... mmmm.. yummy); a couple of other galleries; and spend lots of money at some specialist art shops on some expensive specialist art materials!

Man do I feel poor ... um, and oh yes, a couple of things bought off Amazon have also arrived ... yay! AND we had our first "Ain't Misbehaving", AND we had friends in town visiting, AND I've also been busy with lots of briefs ... AND we've been patiently waiting for Sunshine's sister's baby to arrive ... What a busy week!

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Women Scientists ...


Hooray for women scientists! ... Dr Elizabeth Blackburn, 2009 Nobel Prize for Medicine for work on telomeres.

I was actually also doing a drawing of her fellow Nobel Prize winner Dr Carol Greider (yay! more women scientists!) too, but it just wasn't a 'flattering' image ...

Sunday, October 04, 2009

For Clara Bow ...

Some work-in-progress ...


Still playing with the colours; and its still quite flat and so I'm experimenting with some textures etc .... hmmmm ....