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Archive for the ‘illustration’ Category

I’m starting a blog series on the books I own about print design, graphics and illustration – stuff like that. Here’s the first:

A few sample pages from The Thousand Nights and One Night illustrated with papercut silhouettes by Meg and Mog author Jan Pienkowski.

Pienkowski is originally from Poland, home of the Wycinanki tradition of paper-cutting:

Many of the images have been backdropped with vivid photographic elements and pattern, which strongly captures the sense of the exotic associated with tales of the old East.

The technique and style of the papercuts harks back to the pioneering (and completely inspiring!) work of Lotte Reiniger, specifically The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the oldest surviving animated film:

Magical stuff.

New printables, and soon to be, prints. Drawn in pen as separate ‘bits’, scanned into the computer, outlined in Photoshop, then filled with colour (like a cartoon) in Illustrator – in case you were wondering! Anyway, how this Summer should have been.

Am back on with my e-com website. It needs lots of work on the photos, product listings and small print but I’ve spent most of my time creating pretty decorative elements that aren’t exactly essential! Cool owl tho, huh? Bulging purple eyelids – what a look!

If you’d like to know when the site’s live, you can join my e-mailing list HERE.

Am working on a new logo and web shop for my prints and wall stickers, with emphasis on children, fairy tales and decorative design. Rococo, mad King Ludwig and antique title pages are all in the mental mix.

Have just updated a couple of things on my Etsy and Folksy shops, including a new Red Riding Hood listing – with blonde hair!, and some photos of my new Spanish donkey Summer print.  Looking at them next to each other, I think I must be principally obsessed with the trees. That’s where the work seems to go into.

My Peacock prints are now available on a luxury textured watercolour style paper, crisply printed in fade resistant, archival inks. Am really happy with the results.  Available singly from From the Wilde. Available as as pair on Etsy and Folksy from this evening.

these four: clockwise from top left: Beautiful Skin; Laura Kate Draws; Xenia Taler; Wonderful Rubbish

Clockwise L to R: Sally Boyle at From the Wilde; Giniber; Urban Outfitters at Society 6; Sanna Annukka at Radiance

Clockwise L to R: Gothic Crow; Frerk Muller at Shelf; Sally Boyle at From the Wilde; Happy Doodle Land

Magda Piwowar at Beetroot; Toika at Iittala; Donna Wilson at Soma Gallery

Clockwise L to R: Isak; Felt Me Up Designs; Faye Power at From the Wilde; Skinny Laminx

As I’ve been uploading this epic post (of some of my favourite bird designs online) I’ve been listening to the near constant football rattle of a couple of magpies outside. Touch ironic: they’re the only bird i DON’T like. they can’t sing, they can barely fly and they seem to spend most of their time harassing smaller birds and eating their young. talentless bully-boys…

Super duper new peacock prints, available in dollars, pounds and euros

My first international illustration job – PRINT-ED! woo. I like my little owl. Am picking fault with my design already though: “could have done that differently”; “missed a bit there” etc. Nothing wrong with the production, however, (keep stroking the lovely matt silkiness of the covers) which, of course, was nothing to do with me :)

I’ve just uploaded my 2 new peacock prints to my Folksy, Etsy and  Dawanda shops.  The first image shows the actual print layout on the paper.  However,  I can modify the settings on request for different frame sizes. They can be bought separately, or as a pair. I’ll be taking some fotos, just as soon as I’ve bought a pair of matching A4 frames!