Been doing a series of ‘Kawaii’ scraperboard illustrations for a French company. These will be part of a range of Artfoil illustrations for sale in craft shops. Kid’s will hopefully enjoy scraping away at these little cuties. A bit different to the illustrations I usually do but variety is the spice of life!
BBC scraper-board
I was recently commissioned by the BBC (name drop!) to produce an illustration of Broadcasting House, Belfast. The 1930’s building is modelled on the BBC's London HQ and has a distinctive curved façade’. The BBC are very proud of their iconic building and decided to approach me to produce one of my traditional scraper-board illustrations to be used for postcards and corporate gifts for visitors that describe the history of their building and its 21st century work.
Mary Rose illustration work
The Mary Rose museum in Portsmouth has re-opened today. After many decades in a sealed area within the museum treating the timbers with preserving chemicals as they slowly dried out, the existing ship timbers can now be seen for the first time 'in the raw' without a glass barrier. Very exciting time for those of us who've worked on the project, albeit it in a small way personally, having produced a series of illustrations for the museum.
publishing project
Just completed a long-term project to produce 40 illustrations for 'Holloway, A Little History Of Religion'. An interesting project to work on.
20 minute Trump
Challenged this morning by my Aussie agent to draw a caricature of everyone's favourite comb-over celeb in under 20 mins, here's my quick attempt.
Mary Rose illustrations
Great to be working on more illustrations for the Mary Rose museum in Portsmouth as the museum goes through it's latest re-vamp. A very satisfying project!
New realistic food illustrations
Enjoyed working on these realistic food illustrations recently for The Brand Nursery in Leeds. They were used for chocolate wafer packaging. They even sent me some tasty samples, some of which I used for reference.
Something to crow about!
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To eat at 'La Feria', a great Andalusian restaurant in Harrogate. They needed a new logo to refresh their brand identity.
New website
Been building my new website. It's been a fun journey actually.