Tigers & Treats

I did this illustration for yesterday's New York Time's Op-Ed Section. You can see it in situe with the article it accompanies here.

If you're after Christmas things from my etsy store I recently added postage deadlines to my storefront. Check the list to make sure your order will make it in time for Christmas!

Follow me on twitter? There's a special etsy offer for my twitter followers. 15% off for the next two days!

Bookcovers

Last week Eastwing asked that I put together some mocked up bookcovers for my folio. These are a few of the ones I did (they vary in quality- i did seven in under a week...come on!). I hope you like them!

 

NEW PRINTS

 I added two new prints to my shop today. 'The Russian Tower' and 'Freckles' are on sale now.

Ladies

Three ladylike drawings from last week. Done in snatched moments between 'real' work. 

Drawing Sale

I have drawings piling up around me right now. So there may be a few of these coming up over the next month. 

If you are interested in purchasing work please email me at lizzy (at) abouttoday.co.uk and let me know which piece you'd like, your postal address and a paypal address that I can send an invoice to. At this time I really can only accept Paypal payment from anyone outside the UK (uk-ers a cheque is fiiine). Prices and sizes vary from piece to piece, some are originals of prints and some have been hidden away unseen. Postage is not included in the price of work and will be added on when you order depending on where on earth you might be.

Bathers- Pencil & Watercolour £28 (to be trimmed & tided up around the edges)

 

 Eastern European Woman- Pencil- £14

Trees- Pencil & watercolour SOLD

House Hat- Pencil SOLD

Cloche- Pencil £15 (see the coloured version here)

BIGFOOT!

I did a quick illustration for the Eastwing news page yesterday. Everyday one of the EastwingToday is October 20th and on this day in 1967 illustrators posts an image relating to that days date. Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin caught film footage of what they claimed was a 'Bigfoot'.

I also (finally) did a new picture book report post. Only its not finished.  

 

Retail Detail

If you're in Oxford then you can now pick up prints, cards and badges by me at the newly opened Comma. You can see a wee blue bear fella in the yellow frame in this photo. You can see more pictures here.

Glasgow dwellers can now get cards and badges at the glorious Made in the Shade Maisonette. 

My christmas cards are now on sale. Get 'em while their hot etc etc. Non UK residents please ensure you order them before November 20th if you want to recieve them with plenty of time to send out to your friends!

Christmas & Coveting

It seems far too early to be chatting about christmas cards but nevertheless here we are! These three are my Christmas cards for this year. They'll be on sale in packs of three (one of each) in a few days. Once I get round to packing them all into cellophane. Although it is, as mentioned, perilously early for festive things I'm putting them on sale this month so that lovely folk outside the UK can get theirs ordered in time to still be able to send them out! Makes sense eh?

Today I am wishing I didn't have giant feet and I could get me a pair of these super cute wellies from aigle (ok actually if by some miracle my feet did suddenly become normal size I'd probably go out any buy something more exciting than wellies...but they'd be on my list for sure.)

I am also wishing that the UK shipping on these nice, simple watches wasn't TWICE the price of the watch itself. Thats just plain stupid (americans who want to buy me presents? i want the purple or the grey please.)

Eastwing Brochure

This is my spread from this year's Eastwing promotional brochure. Having been super unhappy with the work I submitted last minute (the result of a combination of having only just joined the agency two days before the deadline and a debilitating lack of confidence in whatever i was trying to do) I am happy to say that I'm far more satisfied with this year's efforts. The brochure for 2010/11 sees all the Eastwing illustrators take on certain dates within a month and illustrate the events on those dates. I did the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, The publication of the Great Gatsby and the great Fire and Earthquake of San Francisco.  

Magda

 

If you're in Glasgow be sure to stop by the wonderful Welcome Home to enter their birthday raffle! I did this piece for it a couple of weeks back and if you enter it may well be yours! You can also win work by some of my favourite talented folk; Verity Keniger, Lindsay Grime, Jen Collins and Richard Sanderson!

I hadn't noticed that a load of things on my shop were in need of re-listing. I've also reduced a fair few things too, including the hand-painted wolf lady prints! Please feel free to stop by fully re-stocked shop!

 Another new image for you. This one's actually a few months old. I forgot all about it (despite the damn thing taking a good two days to draw). 

 

 Got my eye on one of these ace hand-painted wooden badges by Edinburgh-based illustrator Eleni Karlorkoti

 

 Verity's Turn Up The Colour print would brighten any room wonderfully on a dull, autumn day.

P.S I have just ONE house-hat bear left in my etsy shop.

New Work

 If you head over to my flickr page you can find a few new bits and pieces from recently and no so recently (the one above being from early August). Do head over and tell me what you think! Hopefully there'll be some new prints and so on trickling onto the blog in coming weeks. Run up to Christmas and all that.

Family Tree

You can now buy my Wuthering Heights Family Tree as an A3 giclee print from my Etsy Store. You can also see the series of illustrations from which it is taken on my website. It's a bit pricier thank my other prints due to it size and resultant ink-heaviness but if you order one I'll be sure to slip in some kind of printed extra to make it worth your while!

(p.s hurray for bloggers improved image uploader. bigger blog images=happy illustrator)

Illustrated Treats

Urgh. BAD blogger. I am not so good at keeping up with things at the moment. I'm currently working my way through a big, exciting job (which I wont be able to show you for a while. Boo) as well as coming up with new things for the shop in time for christmas (what?) which you will definitely be seeing relatively soon. So whilst there's no work of my own to show you right now here's a round up of tasty illustrated treats for you to enjoy! PS there are still some drawings for sale here.

Dreamy print triptych by Elina Minn for Little Paper Planes.

I badly want this great totebag from James Brown. A girl can never have enough totes.

Bee-ootiful vintage flower print from britthermann

Cute Notebooks from hellojenuine

September Drawing Sale

Time for another clearout of drawings from drawers/folders/under the bed. As usual if you are interested in purchasing work please email me at lizzy (at) abouttoday.co.uk and let me know which piece you'd like, your postal address and a paypal address that I can send an invoice to. At this time I really can only accept Paypal payment from anyone outside the UK (uk-ers a cheque is fiiine). Prices and sizes vary from piece to piece, some are originals of prints and some have been hidden away unseen. Postage is not included in the price of work and will be added on when you order depending on where on earth you might be.

Girl (pencil A5) £12 & House on Stilts -SOLD

Man & Woman (best viewed on flickr) £16 each (woman SOLD)

Woodland (21cm square, pencil) £30

Wooden House (pencil & watercolour) £30

House Hat Bear (original Pencil drawing 21x27cm) £40

'Sailboat' (pencil & Watercolour 31x22cm) £45

'Bowerbird' (Pencil & Watercolour A3) SOLD

September!

A wee pic I did last week as a distraction from doing the work I was meant to be doing. I'm excited about Autumn and the return of hats and scarves!

A quick reminder that all etsy orders over $14 will, until September 15th, recieve a free original drawing by me. All you have to do is include a message saying 'Blog reader treat' with your order and I'll draw you something special (you can even include a specific request...within reason).


We're heading down to Dorset on thursday for End of the Road at the beautiful Larmer Tree Gardens (picture above from last years festival). The weather forecast is looking pretty pants right now (not ideal for four nights in a tent) but hopefully that won't prevent us from enjoying a few of our favourite bands. I'm crazy excited for the Mountain Goats (always wonderful), the New Pornographers, Ra Ra Riot and Wolf Parade, among many many others. The food there is great too, looking forward to my annual love-affair with the scandinavian canteen tent.

BLOG READER ETSY OFFER!

Ahoy all! There are (inexplicably and miraculously) a fair few of you blog follower folks now and I thought I'd do something to say thanks to all of you wonderful people for taking an interest in my work/rambling/general blog nonsense. SO if you're a blog reader and you purchase something from my etsy shop in the next fortnight I will send an original drawing out to you with your order! Nothing massive I'm afraid but a something I've drawn just for you! Just add include a message with your order that says 'Blog Reader Treat' and i'll add something in with your order. If you have any specific requests include them too and I'll see what I can do! Offer finishes at midnight on September 15th!