paper fables

Ohh Deer 'Stuck on Repeat' Competition

2012-01-29T18:15:00.000Z

I have whipped up this entry for the Ohh Deer competition using my recent picture book cat character! I have been working on different elements of my picture book work, expanding from bees and mice and little creatures to more complex characters that contain more expression!

I have tesselated the pattern with grey and ginger cats and the winner has their work printed on note books and other stationery!

Florence + the Machine Competition Entry!

2012-01-18T22:38:00.000Z

This is my Florence+TheMachine artwork proposal for their new single "Only If For A Night" in which the 45 will be printed and sold in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust.

Follow the link and click the blue bar "Support Milan"! Voting begins FRIDAY 20th JANUARY!

http://www.talenthouse.com/creativeinvites/preview/a4f408c545debc275c003380b85bcaab/383

The winner will be announced February 7th 2012 and there will be an exhibition in London!

Love to all!

Florence + the Machine 7" Vinyl Competition

2012-01-09T02:08:00.003Z

HELLO! All this week whilst carrying a lovely VIRUS I have been working away at a new brief, a competition in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust which give me an added inspiration to give my efforts to this cause. I have completed a proposal for the new single 'Only If For A Night'!

SUPPORT ME by clicking on the blue bar next to my illustration:

http://www.talenthouse.com/creativeinvites/preview/a4f408c545debc275c003380b85bcaab/383

Thank you!

NEW Valentine's Day Cards available on ebay!!!

2011-12-31T17:39:00.000Z

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270884540743

1950s style pin-up tattoo finished!

2011-12-23T02:20:00.002Z

This is the final design for the 50s style pin up tattoo I have been beavering away on!
The red and black coloured version is the final design which will be used as the tattoo, however I also love the vintage look of some monochrome pin up visuals which has influenced my alternative version below!

50s pin up tattoo!

2011-12-20T23:49:00.001Z

Marilyn Monroe

2011-11-20T20:58:00.002Z

This is the completed portrait of Marilyn Monroe played by Michelle Williams.

Pin Up Tattoo Sketches

2011-11-19T15:18:00.002Z

I have been working on a tattoo to be illustrated in the style of a 50s pin-up. My client has chosen number 4 so I will do further expansive research and begin working on a final design!

Marilyn Teaser

2011-11-19T01:17:00.002Z

I have been busy working on a portrait of Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe, it is a proposal I am working on that I hope to present to a film magazine soon.

I have retained a classic black and white look, whilst highlighting Marilyn's trademark red lips.

Paper Heart Christmas Cards

2011-11-14T00:23:00.004Z

These still need a little amending here and there, but they are well on the way to completion! They will be sold in sets of 4 I'm thinking, one for each landmark set in the snowy christmas scene!

Dick Whittington!

2011-11-13T02:24:00.002Z

This is a new piece I have completed for a small theatre company in London

My Week With Marilyn Portrait

2011-11-12T13:45:00.003Z

I am working on a proposal cover for a film magazine, as they feature illustrated or artistic covers. The film My Week With Marilyn is due out in 11 days so I am illustrating a portrait which I will mock up as a cover and send to the magazine, or perhaps visit them in London! Exciting times!

Christmas Fairs 2011!

2011-10-29T21:26:00.000+01:00

New Christmas Card Range 2011!

2011-10-28T22:45:00.004+01:00

Here is a set of four new designs I have illustrated that I will be selling around the globe (okay the West Midlands for now), I will be selling them at £3.99 for a set of five different designs. I am also making up more of the Bee Santa Sleigh cards and the Bee Bauble card which were popular last year!!

Paper Heart Company Illustration

2011-10-28T22:07:00.002+01:00

This is the first completed Christmas Card design for The Paper Heart Company.

The concept of the Santa Suit out and hanging up and ready is a different approach to the idea that Christmas beckons! I've tried to give it a vintage feel with the slightly off-colour fur and darkness in the red, on an old wooden coathanger.

It is a taster of a LOT more to come from Paper Heart!

Awesome Folky Gig Poster

2011-10-24T16:16:00.001+01:00

I love The Tallest Man on Earth, I love this poster. I could definitely cuddle that font as well

Totem Exhibition at the Custard Factory Summer 2011

2011-10-24T16:07:00.002+01:00

At an exhibition where my man-partner in crime Murray Somerville displayed his epically mental Totem design, I came across a table of treats involving a smug looking cat and a t shirt with a hairy luchador. random combination, love it.

Renoir painting

2011-10-24T16:04:00.002+01:00

I might have already posted this but its beautiful so its going up again, it is a painting by Renoir of a girl with red hair and pale skin which I find so striking and it inspired my ideas for the Wizard of Oz piece I created involving Dorothy in the Poppy Field. I think I will use it as a basis for a new picture book character too!

Visit to the Nature Centre

2011-10-24T16:02:00.001+01:00

I have been indirectly inspired by a baby meerkat struggling to find its feet. LOOK AT IT!

Old Valentine's Card

2011-10-24T15:29:00.002+01:00

Again, I'm not sure of the Illustrator (apart from that its from Getty Images), but this has muted vintage-stained colours that I am highly loving. It is a little kitsch but the idea of a hot air balloon could be good inspiration for a picture book story. Or I am just blowing hot air and it isn't inspiration at all.

A New Venture - The Paper Heart Company!

2011-10-24T15:20:00.002+01:00

This is a tiny taster of something big I am pursuing beside my picture book illustration.

It is an amazing coalition between myself and a Regina Spektor lookalike called The Paper Heart Company.

We offer wedding invitations, including an option in which we offer custom-made designs, specific to the client's wedding. Along with this we will have a wedding portraiture service (that's me) and baking kits (that's her). It is still in its embryonic stages but soon we will be taking our splendid designs to no less than FIVE Christmas fairs beginning in November.

EVERY SATURDAY leading up to Christmas we will be around in the West Midlands! Watch this festive space!

Kitchen Garden Cafe Exhibition

2011-10-24T14:50:00.003+01:00

Another exhibiton I have recently put up is in the Kitchen garden Cafe in Kings Heath. A quaint little cafe which has somehow passed me by! I have discovered it now and it is bloody lovely.

My work is also being exhibited for a month, and I will be at both Christmas Fairs (November 29th and December 12th)

selling brand new CHRISTMAS CARDS featuring cats, bees, presents, and a gingerbread man!

Vintage Logos

2011-10-24T14:47:00.002+01:00

I randomnly found this set of logos which I find beautiful and inspirational, I'm a sucker for tight and intricate art nouveau decoration, and these, although flirting with medieval, show great composition and further influence my approach to composition and design.

Egypt Illustrations!

2011-10-24T14:34:00.002+01:00

A side project I have been doing is illustrated resources for pupils with learning difficulties. My first set of illustrations was for History, particularly Ancient Egypt! Tutankhamen is possibly the don, and my favourite to illustrate.

cut-ty out-ty illustration

2011-10-15T23:59:00.003+01:00

this is AWESOME, i'm assuming its rob ryan or someone doing a really good impression of him!