Cheltenham - True Stories (aka Jealous Giraffes)

These are 4 images I have just finished to put forward to the Cheltenham Illustration competition this year (with the final 3 columns together being the image I sent) . The theme was True Stories, and have based mine on a something I read about the largest cactus in the world being the size of 3 or 4 giraffes, and thought about how those giraffes would feel being compared to this huge cactus!! Really enjoyed working on this project, just a shame there wasn't enough time to work on more images....ah well, might come back to it at some point.....on to the next project now!!

Macmillan Book Prize ' 09

This is a project I was working on for this years Macmillan Book Prize. It is called Robbie, Rabbit and the Rainbow - and believe it or not - features a boy called Robbie, his soft toy Rabbit and, well, a Rainbow!! The style of this book had many variations during the time I worked on it, as certain things just were not working. It has possibly ended up a bit more mixed-media than I first thought, but overall I am happy with the images produced! :-D

DoodlePlanet - 2/4/09

Another DoodlePlanet event took place in Chester last week and was jam packed with a wide variety of doodle-mad artists! I ended up doing this random, unfinished piece, of an octopus blowing bubbles which happens to have certain things trapped in them. Was lots of fun attending this again - and look forward to the next one in a few weeks time!

DoodlePlanet - 5/3/09

This was my second time attending DoodlePlanet, which takes place Telfords Warehouse in Chester every month and allows talents of all kinds to come and draw on sheets of card on the walls, tables etc.
I finally arrived there an hour later than planned, due to traffic jams and my own dying car battery!! But was totally worth it as I had a wicked time just random doodling along to the funky tunes that were being played. Had no idea what to draw - which is why it looks like it does......maybe I will try to have a better idea before I go to the next one! :-D

Doodle

Hi, have been a bit hectic since Xmas so no time to post any new work - but hopefully will be more active in uploading work from now on!

Worked on this doodle quickly last night to send off for possible inclusion in Doodlezine - which will feature various illustrators doodles, so look forward to seeing that! This was fun and very random and plan on doing some more (with extra images next time), and then put the practicing to the test at the next DoodlePlanet event on 5th March in Chester - bring on the Doodles!! :-D

Oriel Art Exhibition

My 'Chocolate Monster' piece was accepted to be part of the Oriel Art Exhibition in Wrexham, which was open to all types of art work and to professional, amateur and students. The exhibition looks great and has lots of variety of work which I'm really happy to be part of. It went up last weekend and is on until 10th January 2009, so go and have a good look if you can and see the work from lots of talented people!! :-D

1st Award

"Arte y Pico" Award"Arte y Pico" is a phrase that roughly translates as,"The Maximum, The Peak!"

I hope I haven't reached my "Maximum" or my "Peak" just yet, but my thanks go to Yoon See for thinking my work deserves this award!

Here are 'the rules' for The ARTE y PICO Award:
1. Show the award.
2. The name of the person who gave it to you and a link back to their blog.
3. Pick 5 blogs you think deserve this award for: creativity, design, interesting material and their contribution/participation to the blog community.
4. List the author's name and link to their blog.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of those you've selected.Link back to the original Arte y Pico BLOG, so all will know the origin of the award.

AWARDS GO TO THE FOLLOWING BLOGS:

1. Mary Harris at createdbythestar.blogspot.com for her dedication to her work and continual improvements with her lovely designs.

2. Megan Hindley at stedhead-megan.blogspot.com for her utterly unique style and crazy images!

3. Alex Willmore at elxkidd.deviantart.com for his awesome character designs and overall talent.

4. Lauren Sharp at diddydumdiddydoo.deviantart.com for her great artists skills in whatever style she chooses to use!

5. Terri C at painteddaisies.blogspot.com for her lovely paintings, and of course being the leader of the greatest cactus related group in the world....Cactus Monday!!

Keep up the good work guys, will be looking at your work again very soon!