Howdie do!
I would like to share with you my crushes….shhh, don’t tell anyone, it’s a secret.
I am quite in love with the works of two formidable yet very different illustrators and thought I would share them with you just in case you haven’t come across their work.
The first is Echo Chernik who’s modern art nouveau [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2008’
My Illustration Crushes of the Moment
Fathoms Below
More preparation. Not going to say too much, but this is just here to whet your appetite!
Gentle Violence
A brief feather drawing to be used at a later date. I particularly liked this feather because of the way its tranquil shape has been disrupted on one side. It illustrates the relationship between calm and aggression, action and passivity.
Dreamscape
This is one of the preparatory sketches for a painting I have wanted to do for years. It’s a particularly meaningful piece to me which is why it’s taken me nearly 10 years to finally build up the courage to commit the image in my head to paper. Being a perfectionist about my work can [...]
A French Lion
Why hello there!
I am back from my week’s break in the beautiful Midi-Pyrenees region of France. I could have spent some serious time there if only I had taken my paints. Mind you, I would have had to come home eventually. So, what did I achieve artistically whilst there (bearing in mind this was meant [...]