Reynolds!

When I went home for Christmas Mum gave me her copy of Edgar Allan Poe's 'Tales of Imagination & Mystery'

I love it

The short stories are perfect for train journeys 

 Inspired and wanting a quick illustration project, I pencilled this..

 And here it is all coloured and whatnot. 

I thought it fitting to be in gothicy black and white

Happy Birthday to mee

So today is my birthday!

Not sure how I feel about getting older .. but it does mean I get these amazing presents from my housemates 

Was so surprised/happy when I opened it.

 Ive been pretty much summed up in a parcel

 I'll upload some pics of the Star Trek comic book later, so awesome

Right now Im watching old school Buffy and eating the tastiest cake ever made by my housemate Stellar

lushness

Trinity Hall - Postcards

Printed these postcards of Trinity Hall's Jerwood Library in Cambridge

Borders

Pheasant Screenprint

These are the plans for a screenprint..

When it came to printmaking I always went for lino but Ive wanted to have a go at screenprinting for ages. The design is from the stencil I spontaneously made one Sunday. I redrew the pheasant (which took far longer than it should have, wish I'd scanned the original in before I cut it up) and I'm gonna have a go at printing it on tshirts aswell. 

Might make it a 2 colour print, depends how adventurous I feel at the time

Tree Lines

Zander Olsen

Moth pattern

Made some lovely patterny paper.
Its going to be the end papers for my mini portfolio.

The moths are a Lime Hawk Moth and a Red Underwing. 

The plants are Willow and Alder, the trees they like.

Moth

Hopefully have something new to upload by tonight. 

If I don't get it done I might have to fire myself

Don't Hate Just Skate

Something silly that I was gonna give to someone but then chickened out (eeee-jit haha)

This was the first draft, my plan was to draw it properly and then linocut it or something but I ran out of time etcetcetc

Maybe i'll re-do it another day

Trinity Hall Jerwood Library

New Years Plan of Action

Ive had such a great year but there's still loads more I want to do..

• Have an exhibition in the Summer
• Learn to write left handed 
• Do lots more travelling and draw everywhere I go - Im constantly broke but I think this is pretty important
• Send a big mail-out
• Cook better food!
• Keep reading and finish the books on my 'To Read' list
• Start dressing more like a girl
• Stop buying trainers (see above)
• Spend less money
• Learn Spanish
• Design some packaging
• Become a hot shot full time illustrator (ha!)

Best get cracking then

Pub Idol