Sketchbooks & Skylines

A recent pair of doodles from my sketchbook. Going to try and share this kind of thing with you fine folks more often.

Alas I can't afford a full size print by Sanna Annukka. Sigh. But my budget does stretch to a card from Sanna's lovely range for 1973. Which doesn't look too bad at all framed! I may even go back to the red door gallery and pick up the other cards in the series!

The train back from Aberdeen last week took me along the coast of Fife on a beautifully sunny afternoon. This was the view near Aberdour looking across the Firth of Forth to Edinburgh (you can see arthurs seat in the distance). Scotland is pretty lovely sometimes!


Don't forget this week's free gift offer on my etsy store.

Keep an eye on 'My Love for You..' as Meighan is running a wonderful fundraiser for the BP Oil Spill Cleanup and I have a piece going up for sale as part of it.

Shop Treats!

For the next week (21st-27th June) any order over $15 in my shop will come with something else thrown in for free! It might be a card, a zine, a print or even an original drawing. Who knows! It'll be a surprise and most importantly it'll be free! Can't say no to that!

Degree Show Picks

Hello! I've been in Aberdeen for a few days getting out of my comfort zone doing some super large scale work. I'll let you in on it soon! In the meantime I thought I'd post some of my favourites from this years degree show at Edinburgh College of Art.


Its only right I post an illustrator first. As ever the Illustration show is well worth a look with plenty of books to leaf through and a wee shop for special purchases. My favourite work this year was by Irene Servillo (above). Her work is consistently lovely, dreamy and shows a really well developed sense of personal style. Check out the 2010 degree show site for the rest of the illustration graduates.

Next to graphic design where the work of mr Joseph Pielichaty (above) really caught my attention. As well as having a strong design sensibility Joseph is also a master of illustrated nonsense! His sketchbooks are a real treat; charming, witty and nicely drawn.
Painting now. I really liked a couple of folks this year (Matthew Swan for example is definitely going to be a painting superstar in the near future) but my favourite piece was this one (above) by Alex Gibbs. I don't have to explain why do I? Its just flipping beautiful.

The degree show runs until Sunday 20th June At Edinburgh College of Art on Lauriston Place, Edinburgh.

Grey and White

I recently embarked on the mammoth task of putting together a publishing portfolio for myself (specifically book related work as opposed to personal work or childrens book work). It consists of mainly brand new work include series' of illustrations as well as designs for bookcovers. Above is one of my favourites for Wuthering Heights. There's more over on my flickr and i'll be adding extras up there a bit later.

We spent a wonderful day in Brighton for Jez's Birthday back in April. It was lovely. You should check out his recently updated shop by the way!

Drawing Sale Mark 3

More drawings for sale today. Last lot I promise! As usual if you're interested in making a purchase please send me an email at lizzy (at) abouttoday.co.uk All drawings are priced below. Postage depends on where you live!

'Catherine' SOLD

'Triangle' SOLD

'Nikolai's House' A3 SOLD

'Jane Austen' SOLD

'Flood' SOLD

'Oscar' SOLD

'Tower' £18

'Flower' £14

'Beak' £80 (lettered acetate is removable, fits the drawing for
framing but if you'd rather just have the drawing then thats fine!)

Drawing Sale Mark 2

A couple of months ago I put a collection of drawings on here for sale and guess what? I'm at it again. In a bid to become less precious about things and to not cling onto drawings for years and years I'm selling the works below to whoever wants them. If you're interested in purchasing anything please send me an email to lizzy (at) abouttoday.co.uk and I'll sort it out! Oh and paypal only please folks!

'The Men Who Built Magnitogorsk' SOLD

"This is Kansas before the cyclone hits" mounted drawing (l50cmx50cm) £45

'Aleksandr' SOLD

"She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds" SOLD

"I have become an aerial view of a coastal town' SOLD

"They were like bear and we were like deer" SOLD

Buy buy!

Whilst I can't yet post any work stuff this week (although there is a lot to show you) I thought maybe I'd do a quick fantasy shopping post. So! If I had money to spare right now here's what I might frivously invest in...

Happy summer sandals from Camper.

Perfect black and white tee from the always incredible Mociun.

Ace watch from Uniform Wares (every single colour is ace)

'Popville' a splendid looking book by Anouck Boisbrobert

and everything on my svpply list please!

Around & About

My gosh. It seems like i write these 'back in edinburgh again' posts all the time. But here we go! I'm back in Edinburgh again after a trip the glorious south to attend the Pavement curated ATP at Butlins in Minehead followed by a few days at home with the parents. Above is the beach at Minehead where Jez and I (wisely) chose to watch the sun go down rather than endure a set by the Fall.


Its been a lovely sunny weekend here and the other night we went for a magical late evening around nearby Blackford Hill. We're so lucky that our new place is close to the Blackford, its so beautiful and peaceful and there are myriad wooded paths to wander not to mention an amazing view from the top.

New Work

New print on sale very soon! If you're in Edinburgh on Saturday it'll be on sale with all sorts of other things at the Springtime Jamboree Craft Fair at the Roxy. In the meantime if you're one of the next three people to buy something my shop you'll get this tree tower for free!

Oh and I made some new cards too!

A little illustration I did for the Eastwing news page marking the birthday of the British National Gallery.

Coco & Claude

On Sunday Verity and I put up our window display in, quite frankly, the best chocolate shop in the country. Coco of Bruntsfield is filled with all manner of edible revelations not to mention incredible hot chocolate (my favourite being white chocolate with lavender and lemongrass.yum).
Anyway our window was based on their super cool tattoo chocolate box so we went for a 1900's tattoo theme and uh here it is! More photos of claude's (thats his name) development on flickr.

Back again!

Hello gang! I'm back. After an unintentional hiatus in which i went south to Brighton (lunch with collage queen Seiko Kato) then to London to see Jez and his Evening Tweed cohorts steal the show at Pick Me Up. If you were lucky enough to see the massive show at Somerset House you will have seen Evening Tweed's wonderful hunting lodge style room (above) filled with tasty prints and comfy chairs. Oh and this fella...

Then I came back here to get on with work for an impending project with Verity. The results of which you'll see on Monday I hope! Only hours after my return my laptop cable gave up on life and rendered me computerless for 5 days while I waited for a new one! Alas alack etc. Anyway I'm back in the digital work now and hopefully I'll manage a slightly more regular blogging schedule once again. New work on its way but in the meantime I posted all of the images from my Dead Landscapes zine on my website.




If you're in Edinburgh next weekend I'll have stuff for sale at the Made In The Shade Springtime Jamboree at the Roxy on Saturday. I'll have a joint stall with the unstoppable Lindsay Grime. Alas I wont be at the fair (i'll be at ATP in Minehead) but Verity has stepped up to the mark and will be holding the fort for me. She'll be bringing a few of her lovely prints too! Phew...that was a long one. As you were.

Studio

Still got stuff to unpack here but the one room that is sorted is the spare bedroom which also doubles up as a great wee studio for me! And this is it.

Today I like....

Building new in old. I LOVE this idea so much.

Great pattern by Hannah Waldron

Incredible sand floor painting by Elvire Wersche. Argh! So precise and yet so easy to damage!
Tasty colours too! More here.

Oh! And yesterday I added five handpainted 'Anja's Tattoos' gocco prints to my etsy shop