Wednesday, February 1, 2012
away for a while
Here's the front of the card I designed for our wedding invitation.
The pomegranates were inspired by the garden outside our cottage in Ibiza where we got engaged last autumn. I ate ripe figs and pomegranates every day - how could I not when they were hanging on the trees in the garden all around us?
Heaven.
I'm off to Cape Town today, to get married in a few weeks. Back mid March, five whole weeks of sun and celebration.
Labels:
invitation,
pomegranates
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
colour study
Sometimes I start a small warm up painting without knowing where I'm going, just colour, line and sometimes a pattern if something emerges. This small study on lovely thick paper has been knocking around the studio for a bit, and I've grown to love aspects of it. I hope something similar shows up in my more formal, structured illustration work sometime.
Friday, November 18, 2011
for the Tart
Labels:
chocolate,
food,
tart,
watercolour
Sunday, October 2, 2011
a week of warmup drawings
it's been a slow few weeks in terms of new illustrations, but these are drawings I sometimes do to warm up and to keep the magic of brush and colour flowing onto nobbly paper alive. my lovely mum often sends me wonderful seedpods and things to remind me of home; the pebbles follow me home from the sea. watercolour.
Labels:
seedpods,
watercolour
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
birthday invitation for Olivia
Hope I made this card a teeny bit as bright and full of fun as the delightful Olivia is. Off to Stockholm to celebrate her Big One this weekend. Happy Birthday, gorgeous girl!
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
summer holiday wildflowers
Painted one rainy morning in Blekinge, Southern Sweden, in a teeny wooden housie with a red wooden table and chairs, listening to a Beethoven piano concerto on an old skool crackling radio. Oak trees, wildflower meadows and murder slugs just outside the door, the placid Baltic and my sis's summer house a two minute walk away.
Labels:
flowers,
summer,
sweden,
watercolour flowers
Monday, August 1, 2011
broadway market
Sketched one rare sunny day back in May, where the combination of bench in sun and detailed shopfronts was just too good to resist. Two more Hackney street drawings here.
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