Star Wars Identities Exhibition

 I recently surprised my boyfriend with a trip to the O2 Star War exhibition that is about to finish. The exhibition was great but didn't take long to get around. I've wanted to start making illustrations of things I do, like a dairy, so hes a quick one of the real Yoda puppet. Using coloured pen and mainly cross stitch to shade.

Red Bird of Paradise

I was late to the party and have only recently started catching up on 'Planet Earth 2.' It was amazing, as expected and I fell in love with the Red Bird of Paradise. The males are amazing colours with black ribbons on their tails. To attract a female they do a dance, the brighter, the bigger and the longer the ribbons the better. I just had to make a painting of the male bird. I spent a few hours painting the A4 sized sketch I'd made and cleaned the image up on Photoshop.  

                  

 I went on the experiment, I separated the image from the background and added the block circles of colour.

Aztec for a Startup Fashion Brand

I was asked to design a print inspired by Aztec Sun stone carvings with Comme des Garcons eyes. I hand drew the design and played around with it using Photoshop. Inverting the design, I made several screen prints. 

Life Drawing

I have recently done a few quick life drawing sketches. I've taken the first initial sketches and expanding them using coloured pencils. 

Finished Disney Castle Commision

 I am so pleased with the outcome of my Disney Castle wall mural and am excited to share the finished images with you! Most importantly the client was happy with what i had done. If you look at my previous post, you'll see the castle was already done by someone else but the clients weren't happy with the quality that it was at and asked me to help.

I was able to finish the Castle in the couples nursery before the baby arrived, below is a photo of my gift to the new born baby with my hand drawn gift card.

Disney's Cinderella Castle

Before                                                                                         After

I was recently contacted by a client that wasn't happy with the outcome of a wall mural, for their first babies nursery, of the iconic Disney's Cinderellas Castle. After coming to disagreements with the previous designer that had done the "before" piece, I was commissioned to come in over January (with a due date for the baby being mid February and also my deadline date) with the instructions to "fix" the castle. It's the main feature on the first wall, so the first thing you see coming into the room and it completely let the room down (the rest of the work is amazing by the previous designer.)

I spent my first visit to the house pencilling in details and organised paints I needed so that the next visit I could get started. The piece still has a little way to go but I'm extremely happy with how it's turned out. Below are some of the progress pictures that lead up to the "After" photo above.

Memorial Portrait

 I drew a portrait of my grandad after he sadly lost his battle with cancer. The piece is a portrait of him and I've surrounded him with some of this things that made him who he was.