Monday Night Nothing

Ridiculously simple but nonetheless rather desirable postcards from Labour and Wait.

A load of great stuff to be found on Folk Object

Nice leather jewellery from Emma Carroll etc




Nice Shirt. Even nicer cause.

Vote for me in the Poppies

Land & Sky Photos

All on flickr!

A plea from Bristol

So the show opens tomorrow. If you're in Bristol please come to the opening. Chris and I are concerned no one will come. Come! Photos and so forth sooooon!

Aargh! I'm going to Bristol at a crazy hour of the morning tomorrow to start setting up for the show at Here. I'm very excited to get some of the new work I've been sitting on for the past two months out in the open. I've gotten so used to blogging new drawings that its been weird keeping new stuff under wraps! Anyway photos shall come thick and fast once the show is up. If you're in Bristol (or indeed if you have means by which to get to Bristol) then please do go and have a look! 21st Jan-27th Feb, Here Gallery, 108 Stokes Croft. If you're able to come to the private view its Thursday 7pm-9pm, say hello!

Lets look at some lovely things....

Beautiful tote by Nina Lindgren.

I have a great deal of love for shorpy.com. Its amazing. I particularly love this photo. FLAWLESS.

I adore this rabbit and bird bunting by Janis!


The bear drawing I posted t'other day is now on sale!

Children's Portfolio

This is the cover of my new portfolio of Children's Illustration (and some stuff for older kids too) that I put together today. And, as I'm feeling pleased that I've managed to pull it all together here are a couple more new illustrations included in it.

Animal friends!

So this past week I've been fixing up my portfolios. Filling in gaps and getting rid of old work. I've split my stuff (mainly for the ease of showing it to clients) into a portfolio for editorial work (the kind of stuff on my Eastwing page) and one for children's illustration (I also have a separate folder of personal/degree work that is the kind of stuff you see on my site). Anyway I've done a tonne of new stuff for both; some of which I'll be posting over the next few days. Above are some animals for my Children's portfolio. Animals are always fun to draw.

Hello again!

Happy New Year! I'm back from the blogging wilderness! I hope everyone had a lovely festive period and that the cold and snow didnt hamper too many holiday plans! Edinburgh is currently pretty damn cold and covered in snow (rapidly becoming grey sludge after thousands of hogmanay goers have traipsed through it though). This morning there was a beautiful break from the grey when the sun came out and everything looked like this (above). Nice.


The next week or so I'll be focusing on getting stuff sorted for my show with Christopher Bettig at Here Gallery in Bristol. It opens January 21st and runs till Feb 27th so if you're in the fair city of Bristol (or indeed in the South West and have nothing better to do) then please please please go and have a look. Above is a sneak peek at a brand new piece of work for the show. Its a bear innit!?

Happy Christmas!

Happy Christmas everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful festive period. See you in the New Year!

A recommendation.

My new favourite blog is Curious Pages run by the incredible Lane Smith (author of one of my favourite children's books ever 'the Happy Hocky Family'). The blog collates bizarre, unsuitable and just plain unsettling Children's books and hilariously explains what makes them so brilliant. Well worth a moment of your time.

Paper Tintypes

I've been working on stuff for the exhibition in Bristol next month and another in Leeds in March. These images are for the Leeds show called 'The Men Who Built Magnitogorsk'. These drawings are of old russian tintype photographs. The rest are on my flickr.

Winter

Finally feeling properly festive after a lovely Christmas meal with friend the other night. In two days Jez and I are flying home to South Devon (Exeter and Plymouth respectively) to spend Christmas with our families. Which I, for one, am very excited about. In the meantime I have some work to finish (more on that later), presents to wrap and packing to do! Here are some wintery looking things for a very cold day! (felt snowflake decoration by Donna Wilson)

Love this beautiful pattern by Alisha Henson.

I designed the Logo and scribblings for this rather fancy new online boutique. Be sure to stop by if you're in the UK and craving some international independent labels like Built By Wendy and Ivana Helsinki.

Eeek! Filler post!

I really want to post up some new work but I'm trying hard to keep it all under wraps for the exhibition in January (I hate going to shows and seeing a tonne of work I've seen plastered all over the internet for months!) so in the meantime here are a couple of 'What I Wore Today' drawings I knocked up for my own entertainment.

Land & Sky among other things.

Do you live in/near Bristol? Perhaps you fancy a Bristol based holiday in say...January/Febuary? If so please please please come by the Here Gallery between 22nd Jan-27th Feb to see an exhibition by myself and the marvellously talented Christopher Bettig. It's called Land & Sky (as the poster says) and will feature a load of new work from the pair of us (and maybe a few older bits too) and there'll hopefully be plenty to buy too! I'm very very excited.



If you in the US/Asia/Eastern Europe you have until tomorrow to order stuff from my shop in time for Christmas! If you're in the UK/Central Europe you have until the 16th as after that I shall be heading south for a family Christmas. I added a couple of new cards last night and there's the usual collection of prints and zines and some bags left too so best get shopping!

P.S thanks to anyone who came by Magpie Market on Sunday, especially to the rather enthusiastic girls from 1st Year at ECA...you brightened up our afternoon!

The Strangest Summer Fete

This is an image for my editorial portfolio that I did a couple of weeks back. Its about strange British events...cheese rolling, yorkshire pudding boats, poo sticks and bog snorkelling to name but a few.

Oh Deer!

This rather fine print by the talented Ms Keniger would make a rather wonderful christmas present no? A red deer? Can't get more festive than that!

Misc.

Jez played this a lot the other week. You know why? Because it is ace.


I'm not a fan of fake Christmas Trees but this Possibilitree could change my mind. I usually sort of hate the fake tree that has been over stylised but this remains festive and charming and not too design-y. Nice. (via For Me For You)

I've been printing things all evening in preparation for Magpie Market this Sunday. If you're in Central Edinburgh or are willing to make a trip there I would thoroughly recommend it. Plenty of opportunities for some lovely hand made Christmas shopping.

Buildings

Illustrated Christmas on Etsy

Christmas shopping time is upon us and I thought now would be a suitable time to endorse some rather splendid etsy shops run by illustrator folk I know, all of whom would be very much deserving of your hard earned cash!

Splendidly festive card by Sophie Elm

Zines by hellojenuine

Handpainted ceramic brooch by Lindsay Grime.

Ace print by Richard Sanderson

Morning ( or maybe evening) Mr Magpie

If you're in Scotland's fair capital on December 6th come to the Lot in the Grassmarket, Edinburgh from 12 noon until 6 for the Magpie Christmas Craft Fair. I shall be setting up shop with my craft fair cohort Lindsday Grime to flog all many of things both festive and frivolous! (Rather splendid image by Lindsay over at her blog)

Jez Burrows' New Site

Excuse me for one moment whilst I shamelessly (and very proudly) endorse my other half! Not content with being King of roast potatoes and good at opening jars Jez is also a really rather wonderful graphic designer/illustrator. He's just launched his brand new website and I strongly suggest you go and take a peek. Its proper good. Also keep your eye on his blog for a giveaway in the very near future.

For your wall...

Nice print by Elisabeth Dunker of Fine Little Day (of course!)

Loving this wonderfully simple illustration from Madebyanna. You can't go wrong with a lovely muted colourscheme.

If I had some of these beautiful cards from Rifle I doubt I could bear to send them. I'd like to frame 'em up and stick them on the wall instead.

Winter Birds

The birds I posted up earlier this week are now available as a digital print from my etsy shop!

New Drawings

Forgive me if you follow me on flickr...this will be old hat to you I guess but I thought I'd post up some new work. I'm currently working towards not one but two exhibitions in the start of the new year so hopefully you'll see some more in the near future. Not all of it mind! Need to save something for the shows!

Additions to the shop

New stuff added to my shop...cards and pin badges...more stuff to be added soon!