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Category Archives: Illustration
Newsletter
Exciting news! We have finally worked out how to put a newsletter subscription button on my website. Okay, we had some help…thank you Rob! A few people have asked if I could let them know when new stock comes out … Continue reading
Fortress building
Here’s what I got up to today. As you can see from my sketchbook I’d been hatching this plan for a while! It’s all about keeping the competition out. First of all, choice of crop. Broad beans appear surprisingly frost … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged broad beans, fortress, mice, moles, rabbits, slugs
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Plums and custard
As you might have noticed Scotland is currently enjoying a surprise heatwave. Everyone is making the most of it because this probably is summer for us. Big Dreamer bitterly remarked that it looked like someone had declared a national holiday … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged college, edinburgh, heat wave, Katrina and the waves, plums and custard, sunny days
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A dead bunny
This is a reject illustration from my current project at college. There’s something not right about them. Sort of stiff and uncomfortable and a bit too functional. Today I went to put the washing out and found a baby bunny … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged bunny, dead, illustration, netting, new growth, plants, rabbit, reject illustration, slugs, tabloid headlines
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Spring Cards
New greetings cards to celebrate the coming of spring…it’s definitely on its way! Check them out in my shop.
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged cards, greetings cards, illustration, new, spring
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Dark nights
It’s a really dark night tonight. Often the stars are bright enough that I can walk down the lane to bring the bin back and see my way quite clearly. Tonight I needed our big torch that sits by the … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged bins, dark, darkness, illustration, new characters, night, stars
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Nesting
The guttering around our house is a popular spot for a variety of little birds to build their nests. This year a pair of Blue Tits have taken a liking to the guttering above Little Owl’s window. We have been … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged blankets, blue tits, children's art, guttering, illustration, nesting, spring, summercloud
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Flat Cat Gallery
I don’t know where I’d be without kind people…almost certainly in a ditch somewhere. Since I have started on my illustration journey so many people have shared knowledge, experience, contacts and tea with me. Today was no exception. This morning … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged cards, Flat Cat Gallery, framed prints, Hot Chocolate, illustration, kind people, Lauder, Little Owl, prints, Stephen O'Neil, stickle brick, stockist
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Snow stops play
Here is an editorial illustration I did this week for Edinburgh University’s Insight Magazine. The illustration accompanies an article about how humans are more than a mathematical equation. Big Dreamer and I were surprised to look out of the window … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged editorial, illustration, insight magazine, mathematics, snow, swing
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Wheeeeee!
We bought Little Owl a swing for her birthday. It isn’t actually her birthday for a little while but Big Dreamer and I are rubbish at keeping secrets. Big Dreamer put it together today and Little Owl is pleased as … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Growing things, Illustration
Tagged birthday, broad beans, cosmos, Little Owl, potatoes, secrets, seedlings, sweet peas, swing
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