This was a fun project. ELLE magazine has recently launched their blog, and I did the illustrations for their blog header. Keep an eye out for the monthly Mademoiselle illustration that I’ll be doing for the magazine. She’ll appear on the blog too.
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Header for ELLE
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Colour cuts
Freeworld Coatings, the company that owns paint brand Plascon, commissioned me to do a couple of paint sample cutouts for their brand new offices, and I had lots of fun doing them, and here’s how they turned out: And talking about paint-related stuff, on the ELLE Decoration blog today, there’s such a cool step-by-step makeover …
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Horoscopes of late
I’m still doing horoscope illustrations for Fair Lady magazine – I think it’s three or four years I’ve been doing them now – but haven’t shown many of them lately, so here’s a bit of a catch up with Gemini, Taurus and Cancer horos: They’re all made from sticky vinyl that I cut with my …
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Horoscope Special 2010
I’ve been doing it since 2008 – the Fair Lady magazine horoscopes, and then, once a year, I get to do the horoscope special. This year I did some little cutouts. They’d make nice lino prints, I think.
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Not Making Friday
Not Making Friday There’s no Making Friday for me today, as I’ve got to get some wholesale orders out of my studio. But seeing as I spent much of Tuesday blissfully elbow-deep in watercolours, inks and bits of cut paper, working out a new style for another year of FairLady horoscopes, I’m happy to sacrifice …
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What I’ve been making on Making Day
What I’ve been making on Making DayFor the last four or five Fridays (Making Day, as many of you know), I’ve been cut cut cutting away with the very tip of my sharp little knife, and now I’ve finally finished. I didn’t make this papercut for any reason or purpose (although I’ll probably find a …
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Peynet inspiration
Peynet inspirationI’m working on some illustrations for a wedding guide, and for inspiration, I’m using the images in these books by 1940s popular illustrator Raymond Peynet . Ever since I studied French at school, using the a la Page series, I’ve been crazy about this style of illustration, so I’m pleased to get a chance …
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Holiday drawing
Holiday drawingI spent many hours in my holidays (so long ago now!) drawing every piece of vintage crockery we have here at home. It was one of the nicest things I did all holiday, really. It’s taken so much longer than I expected, but I’ve finally turned these drawings into a brand new teatowel design! …
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Glimpse
GlimpseA few weeks ago, I made this large cutout, after my friend Candice asked me to make something for a large wall in her dining room. Candice and I were at school together, and met up again, almost 20 years later, after she bought a cushion from my Etsy shop. Isn’t that odd?
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