An Editorial & a new blog

 A new editorial illustration i made today, Ive never really done them before and i can't deny i find them daunting, this is for an article about visiting Sunday farmers markets, so an easy beginning. 

Ive moved over to a new Tumblr site, so will be posting over there from now on,

Take a look here

Moon Calendar.

Sneaky peak calendar mock up. 

This is this months. 

A little late i know. 

Apple Pie Recipe

Honey. A new project.

Some roughs from a new project I'm working on, 

Posters for promoting local honey and a campaign to raise awareness

 for the plight of the humble bee.

John Kearns

 

A logo I made up for a good friend, long awaited and finally completed.

A Series English birds

Setting myself small targets to get the fingers, joints and toes working again. 

Self Direction is not an easy thing.

Julie & Georgia

Two little friends of mine. 

Three little sparrows

Three little sparrows sat on my finger this morning. 

A hare

I got some advice from an illustrator recently,"you should do more animals, people like animals."

This is a lost and weary hare.

A Garden Series of Woodcuts

Just some Shoddy quick shots of a project I'm working on at the moment, 

the first pulls of some new woodcuts, intended to be part of a larger series... 

Currently fiercely enjoying my excellent, unemployed, cold November mornings. 

Wrens

Some little Wrens for a private commission,

just before they were sent of in the post

Girl with Branches

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Wood cut Sparrows

I am tentatively coming crawling back to working with relief print, here are some shaky shots of a small bird motif I've been playing with recently. 

(Apologies for the iPhone quality.)

Latin America

Some sketches made in the Markets of Mexico and Guatemala. 

(I posted a couple of these before, but now finally i have a decent scanner)

Garden series

Some Sketches for planned wood cuts, its been along while since i've updated, more to come ...

chicken.

Finding Swoon in Oaxaca.

 The best surprise i could fathom. 

Small independent print workshops, Oaxaca

I sought out as many of them as i could whilst i was in Oaxaca, brilliant and exciting, small, co-operatively run print studios. Run by young and active artists around the city, these studios are inspiring, they have rigged up there own equipment using what they can and initiative, making a free and mobilising atmosphere. Music was blearing and all the guys i met were 

wicked, truly motivated (they were all guys) and bloody talented.

 It was by far the most inspiring experience I've had yet. 

Print making is still very much alive in Mexico.

Their work out on the street. 

Oaxaca.

Beautiful colours and peaceful courtyards walking the streets of Oaxaca City.