Well what a summer!

Soil and Sand

Lino cut with mono printing. Design for CD cover for Soil and Sand by Maclaine Coulston and Saul Rose which will be released soon!

Post Due

Another card I made for post due. This one used the packaging from a pack of playing cards I bought in the Medina in Fez on a trip to Morocco last november. I really enjoyed making this postcard and I love the Idea of all these little artworks passing around the world through the postal system.

Post Due

A postcard I recently painted and sent for mail art group-Post Due

Illustration Friday-Backwards

Well what can I say - This robin has managed to get things totally backwards!
The printing process means you have to make the image and lettering backwards to get the print the right way round which is somthing that caught me out, but after much swearing and gouging of lino and fingers here we are
Merry christmas all !

Illustration Friday Cars

This is something from my sketchbook that seemed to fit the theme of this weeks challenge, the piece I did specifically for illustration Friday is posted below and couldn't be more different. I seem to be coming up with quite a wierd concoction of images and styles, but I hope eventually through trial and error and experimentation some unity of style will come through, or at least a direction!

Illustration Friday Cars

Inspired by the birthday party of a friends son for which cardboard boxes were used to create pirate ships and racing cars. I am still playing with acrylics on bristol board at the moment and enjoying it very much, though I would like my painting to be a bit looser and more expressive still.

Illustration Friday Signs

At Last server is working and I can post this just in the nick of time! Signs could mean so many different things but I felt compelled to do this as a homage to a recent trip to London I made with my frend Esme. It felt such an adventure and quite daunting trying to find our way around as there were so many signs everywhere yet hardly a street name to be found. This was done with acrylic on bristol board and I'm not sure it has worked out as I wanted it, the paint isn't as fresh and painterly as I would like but the composition was so hard to balance that it couldn't help but become a bit laboured. I definately plan to try something with a looser style next.

Illustration Friday Citrus

I did this piece for last weeks challenge and then couldn't get it onto my blog as I had server problems sooooooooo frustrating!