Inspiring patterns......

Been photographing patterns that i can use in my work. At the moment I have a thing about dots as you can see !......

Susan Beatrice Pearse illustrator

I came across this beautifully illustrated childrens book in one of my favourite second hand book shops here in Winchester by the Illustrator Susan Beatrice Pearse . Such a wonderful find! The drawings are super and although not my style of working i thoroughly enjoy.

Card making.....

Having a chilled out weekend trawling second hand book shops and visiting some local haunts oh! and  making cards and badges whilst listening to vintage oldies drinking tea .....lush !

I love numbers!......

These are some of my favourite yummy numbers .....

2 Nice !!!.....

I took this photo at Frieze Art Fair last year its a Peter Blake piece but i've played around with it on Instgram and i love it !

commission book cover proposal

This is one of my final images for the proposed book cover for the academic folder proposal and possibly the student book to go along side this . somewhere I need to include the title 'inspire' which is the chosen title. looking forward to scanning in tomorrow and tweeking the colours .

More Vintage....

These fantastic images are all from vintage boys annuals that i've picked up from flea markets in the last couple of weeks, great stuff for future illustration and ideas.....innocent stuff from days gone by .

This Im working on ......

Still working on my commission for the editorial piece.Photographed these using Instagram on my iphone....nice!

Vintage Finds....

Been out collecting in the flea markets and came across these little gems!!

Editorial commission......

So I am working on a new commission for an editorial piece where I am designing a book cover and a folder cover with 14 spreads to go inside these are to be illustrated also. Im going for an old school feel using shapes and lines and various patterns, playing around with vintage colours also.
Really enjoying the different feel that my work has to offer. I really enjoy editorial it's very demanding but the challenge makes the outcome more interesting.

My things i like......

Photographing things that inspire me that I have collected.....

Ideas for new commission.....

sketchbook.....