I-F: Pattern

There are a lot of different patterns going on here - and I suppose 2 by 2 is a pattern too!

This is my submission for Illustrators Australia's annual 9x5 exhibition, where artists paint a piece of wood 9x5 inches in dimension. I used watercolours and coloured pencils for this -- I've never painted w/c on wood before so that was quite interesting!

The theme this year was "20" seeing as it is IA's 20th year anniversary. Mine is entitled '2 x 10'.

All pieces are for sale. You can go have a gander at them here, and bid! Or better yet, come along on the night if you are in Melbourne - Friday October 9th. Not long now!

postcard from Espana

What a treat to find a postcard in my letterbox from the lovely Natascha!! Isn't it so exciting to receive real mail these days? Especially when it's so whimsically illustrated (and collaged, love that happy bear). Thank you so much Natascha!

I have been burning the candle at both ends the last few weeks. Just yesterday I finished up one of my two big illustrations projects I had on the go (I will post more about that soon), so I am very happy!

For now though I am diving back into working on my Christmas book which has been sadly in the back seat lately. (I kept looking at it longingly in the rear view mirror.)

I found it hard to shift my headspace between the two projects because they were so different -the one I just finished was digital, relatively rote, the book is traditional, extremely creative- so now I'm excited to really dig my teeth in again.

so off I go! But see you soon :)

uber cute

Here are the characters I have developed for my Christmas book that will be out October 2010. Personally, I think they are uber cute!

I-F: Strong

Some strong winds a blowin!

This is a bit of a companion piece to my previous I-F painting (Caution), both potential entries for Image Zoo's contest for their artists (of which I am one). It's a 'show off' contest, but unfortunately I only had 2 hours to do this from start to finish so don't feel like it's much of a show off, so not sure if I will enter at all...

The topic was 'social networking' - so these are both entitled "Face-book (old school)"

Also, as a bonus here is a previous IF post "Strength" that I did aaaaages ago, when I was still working digitally. Have I really been doing Illustration Friday for 4 years? wow.