Watercolour tropic birds

I've been looking at birds from eastern europe to draw their lavish colours and elegant behaviour to represent seductive prostitute puppets in a fruity manner. make sense?

Tropic birds

strutting your stuff

Manequins of Desire

For my personal project I'm focusing on Angela Carter's short story The Loves of Lady Purple. A puppeteer who travels eastern europe performing his puppet show of erotic desire and extraordinary acts of Lady Purple.

Biscuits!

Hand Iced biscuits for The Thyme Machine sold at Now we are Weekender gig last saturday. Great fun!

work in some kind of progress

puppet head lino cut.. more to come trying to experiment in making paper puppets.

self portrait

Our class are going to have commemorative tea towel for when we graduate so we've all been asked to produce a quick self portrait heres mine! I think the majority of people in my class who don't come to college much will see me cycling with loads of stuff in my basket waving at them usually I'm in summer dresses all seasons too.

Coloured it in for fun yeah.

A visit to Sydenham Hill Forest.

It is such a magical feeling, escaping from the busy main roads to this overgrown woodland retreat where wood mice live with ancient trees on the remnants of a steam train track that existed once over a 100 years ago, though I feel you can still sense the train steaming out of the tunnel now.

I entered this for the serco competition for the london transport museum they wanted a illustration depicting 'secret london' either past or present and I thought the forest was a ideal place its a really wonderfully inspiring place to go.

Mixed Special Press Pack

Heres my submission I entered for the Press Packs were printing to promote our degree external show, 10 different posters of peoples work will get printed by Ditto Press on their Riso machine. I'm not sure when we find out but looking forward to it and terrified at the same time of getting close to the show!

sunshine!

dulwich picture gallery garden (so quiet i had to draw a bench cause it was the only thing around!)


people in the sunshine
sheep in lancaster
butterfly I set free out our house.

Drawing Days

Went home for mother's day and Lily's school had a presentation at the village church so we all went. The vicar was the highlight of the service he had no teeth and looked half asleep and demonic before it started. When he got to talk he talked about his childhood it was extremely hard not to laugh out loud- "I'd walk about 3 miles to get to my school and there was no mum mafia outside the playground we were trusted to walk home ourselves - and if you were late you'd get a clip on the ear but you can't do that nowadays. And there was no sex education in our day it was all in the farm yard! "

He went on to tell us how he made guns and bow and arrows with nails on the ends whilst the mothers all looked in horror at what ideas the children might get. He did give some kind of moral he said he's got no teeth because of climbing trees and falling off one and how his teeth disintegrated his whole life because of it and now he has none so let that be a lesson to ya! "Don't let the sun go down on you"

Countryside in Bath
Nunhead cemetery
Robin leading the way whilst we ventured deeper and deeper to trespassing in the deer forest in Bath.
Spending a lot of my free time in cemeteries I think its a good for piece of mind and drawing still things and observing overgrown nature which is especially wonderful finding in London.

Sailing

Reloved at Home

Made a rubber stamp for my mum's craft business reloved at home she makes lovely cushions, bags and gifts.

At the Aquarium

Sharks and crocodiles and clown fish and penguins and star fish and seahorses so many colourful fish. Me and Ella went to the London Aquarium last week because she's doing a project on sharks look at her blog for more sharks.