shrinky dink rinky dink.

plastic that shrinks when you heat it!  pure magic! 

it's the first time i've used it, the results are alright.  the images looked squashed, and not proportionally, and some dip in the middle, but they have a nice matt finish, and small things are cute!

i just need to get the earring posts.

birdgirl.

2+1=3

hullo.

just a little update of some work in progress, or work not in progress, a wee A6 screenprint, it's just not quite right yet.  i need to change the owls, or the trees, and then maybe the colours, then it might work.  but owls are definitely the way forward!

hoot.

the return of... bird girl!

the birds are back!

working on new stuff as you can see, and i just printed these last week.  i suppose they're not doing much at the moment, but i have plans for them, book plans.  i'll probably use these illustrations, and introduce some typographic elements, and put them all together in a folded book.

i introduced some colour to the line drawing, just by simply cutting out the paper shapes to expose on the screen.  i like the red with the brown, but i keep thinking they have baboon butt eyes!  colour and paper have to be considered more, but i'm excited about just doing more printing.

i quite like the idea of doing some large scale prints with the owls too.  using lots of brown, yellow and golden colours, so to keep the colours true to birds actual colouring.  i think trying different mark making techniques to introduce some textures and patterns into the prints would work quite well for this as well, something more feather like, because i'm normally all for the clean lines.  these are my thoughts and feelings at the moment, but i just have to get on with it!

hoo-hoo-oooo.

no! i love you more!

hello there!

love to print has been zooming along, so it has.  this below, is my A3 print, an edition of 12, which is hanging up in the warehouse cafe in birmingham.  along with prints by claire lynch, karoline rerrie and sarah ray.  so they're up there, and ready for you to purchase, framed, or unframed.  i also produced a small run of the muffins on cards, which seemed to do alright too.

and now a little plug for the love to print blog, and it lives at this address:

www.lovetoprint.blogpsot.com

so go and check it out!  yee has been posting away on it (and i should really too) but it is full of links and pictures and good stuff, so click away!

you remember how we met?

more tart cards!   

more colour.  

more type.  

more pattern.

1 or 2.  3 or 4.

who knows?  it might be love.

birdgirl.

boys and girls.

first post of the new year!  

hello!

got some new work to post.  (work that i've just handed in at uni, and i don't want to know the marks!)  we had to design tart cards as part of our project, that tied in with +plus, and well, really, mine aren't tart cards, just cards with slogans... but they look pretty!  and it was quite fun to do.  i drew them out by hand first, and coloured them in on the ol' computer, as you do.  when i draw in black all the time, you gotta burst out the colour at some point!

i was looking at lots of nice books for inspiration; 'hand job' and 'over & over' by mike perry, 'sweaty goolabs' by jon burgerman, and 'secret weapon' postcard book by linzie hunter.  all my precious letraset, and some fontalicious book from the library i forget the name of, came in handy too.

sweet talk 101

the end is in sight!  all my postcards are done, logos and all.  i really should be doing university work but you know!  now that the postcards are done though, i was just thinking about changing them, like i could've used patterned paper, or coloured paper, or just added a pattern to the design, colourpatterncolourpattern and so on.

the colours are practically glowing in the picture above, but this one is closer to what it's actually like in real life.

au revoir 2008.  bonjour 2009.