Printmaking and Polaroids

Printmaking and
Polaroids












For the past couple of weekends I have been frantically getting together material for my upcoming exhibition and this has involved two sessions at the East London Printmakers.  Unfortunately last weekend wasn't so successful as my images weren't quite black enough for exposing a screen with (silkscreen printmaking).  So it was really frustrating, but I literally didn't even get one colour printed.  This weekend however, more pressure to get it right!  I went away and got my images improved and came back fighting!  Last weekend I had had my trusty helper and loving boyfriend with me, this weekend, it was just me.

I did it. I printed an edition of 27 two colour MASSIVE Amsterdam silkscreen prints.  You can see how massive in the polaroid where I'm holding it up!

I am so relieved that I managed this small feat.  If I hadn't, it wouldn't of been the end of the world but I would of been a bit disappointed.









HURRAH!


After I had finished up at the printers I headed on over to Brick Lane to meet up with my cousin Tom Wright as he'd just held a Polaroid workshop there that morning (Impossible Project Workshop)...I was a bit late for the workshop, but I did manage to get a few photos taken on my little but chunky Fuji Mini Polaroid and even a few on a 'proper' polaroid camera of Tom's.  I let Tom take my polaroids back to Manchester with him so i'll have to share those with you another time!

Myself & Tom

Me & Lauren

THE Goat

Ahem...I think maybe I need to clean my scanner.

Artist of the Month of March

Artist of the Month of March at Seasons Cafe @ Rowan

I'm so happy to tell you all about my upcoming exhibition (My first ever proper one don't you know!) which takes place for the whole of March and is situated in the lovely Seasons Cafe @ Rowan.  

They feature a different artist every month, and take on work of all disciplines ranging from illustration to fine art to photography and all thats in between.  This provides a great rotation of gorgeous work for all who work at and visit the Cafe and the Garden Centre that it's located in.

I'll be showing original illustrations in watercolour, silkscreen print and drypoint print.  These will be available to purchase along with digital copies, cards and a few other bits and bobs.

I'll be having a preview evening for those of you who are local and are able to get to Chalfont St. Giles by 5pm on a Friday!  There will be drinks & nibbles or tea & cake, depending on what takes your fancy, from 5-7pm on Friday 2nd March.  Come along for a chat, ask any questions you may have, and enjoy a nice look at my illustration up close.

Hopefully the evening will be nice and clear as it's staying lighter and lighter in the evening already and there are great views across the fields from the cafe.

You will need a car to get there.  If you are visiting on a weekend, give me a shout and I'll join you for a cup of tea!  If you're visiting from afar (maybe via train?) Then hopefully I can give you a lift as well! Otherwise the closest train station is Chalfont and Latimer on the Metropolitan Line, which you can get a taxi from for not too much.

I've been busy working on these lovely stickers for promoting this exhibition.  I opted to create a sticker that could be used on the already existing A6 postcards from the Cafe as then visitors can view the map!  I'm very excited about distributing my 'QR-code' stickers :-) which when scanned will bring you straight here (to my blog) where you can see all I've been up to.  A few have been sent out to friends over seas, so keep an eye out for photos of them in random places!

They Draw and Travel - Map no.2

London Town

The lovely Nate and Salli launched a competition for the prettiest map on their 'They Draw and Travel'  website/project called 'You-topia'.  Last year I illustrated a map of Fiji for them, which I loved doing so much - you can read about that here.  So when I read about this contest, it spurred me on to do another map for them!  I chose London, as it's my closest city.  I've recently started working there, and I just love it!  This map is full of a few of my favourite things to do during the day in London.  There was no way I could fit everything in and for people to appreciate it all as well!  

Hopefully there will be more time this year to do more maps.

Materials: Watercolour paints, black fine liner, digital text.

Ohh Deer - Stuck on Repeat

www.OhhDeer.com

'Stuck on Repeat'

'Repetition in the Everyday'

This was my entry for Ohh Deer's competition for a design that would be printed on notebooks and sold in their online shop :-) There were some great entries, unfortunately mine didn't get picked, but if you want it as a notebook anyway then let me know!

I enjoyed doing a bit of collage with the kites.  They make me think of windy summers on the beach in England, so this design is almost a mix of summer and winter.  As blue skies make me think of summer (hence the kites) but it was definitely a cold winter day when I was illustrating this.

Thanks for looking!
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Extra Special Sweetshop Giveaway!

Happy January! 

I've had a good start to the new year, January has flown by so fast, and I've received lovely, encouraging feedback.  It's come from every direction, from friends & family to fans & newly made illustrator friends - Thank you!  I am therefore going to now give something back to you.  As you've all seen recently I've been working on a range of illustrations for my local sweet shop aka 'Old Amersham Sweet Shop'. It's the loveliest little shop full of everyones favourites, which you can get in a perfect sized portion of 100g in a pink striped bag-just the way it should be!

Anyone can take part, old friends and new alike.  Maybe you entered the last competition I did?  You can see the goodies Laura won in that here.  In order to be entered all you have to do is sign up to receive my email newsletter.  Yes thats right, you don't have to follow me on Twitter to make sure you don't miss out on something I've been up to!  Genius?  I think so :-)  I send a newsletter out about once a month, maybe two if there is quite a bit happening.  Please leave a comment on this blog post to let me know when you've done this.  And please in your comment let me know which is your favourite painting!

Follow this link to be taken to the form to sign up:

NEWSLETTER

The competition shall again be judged by my hat :-) and the winner shall receive the illustration they love the most out of the 5 on this blog post.

You have a little over a week to join in and sign up :-) I shall be picking a name out of my hat next weekend, on Saturday 11th February. 

The classic original 'Great British Lolly-pop'

'Life is like a box of chocolates'

'Love Heart'

Or I think in America they're 'Double Hearts'?!

'Lucky Dip'

'Love Heart Lolly-pop'