My third contribution to a joint project with sisters illustrator Hannah Hunter-Kelm and photographer Ella Dickinson (click their names to see their online portfolios). We've been working on this for nearly a year now, adding artwork, collage and photography to a second hand copy of 'Dream Days' by Kenneth Grahame, with illustrations by Ernest H Shepard. We then post it to each other, and can start new pages, tear pages out and add to each others' work. I'm hoping to scan in the whole book at the end to upload - as the first person in the cycle, my artwork is usually worked into by the others and so it evolves and changes, so it might be interesting to see the book as a whole (and of course to see Hannah and Ella's work too). Above: another London sketch from a sneaky bus photo - pencil, gouache. Above: pencil. Above: collage
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It is Reuben's birthday today so I painted him a picture of a blue whale. You can hear their heartbeat from 2 miles away. Watercolour, pencil, gouache.
My sister commissioned me to design a tattoo of an octopus for her. See below for images showing the drafting process, the final design and the tattoo itself. The final tattoo is approximately 2 x 2 inches.
Very excited to say that I have just sent some postcard designs for printing - they will be available to buy as a set of 5 (all different designs) in lovely gesso paper, price tbc. Watch this space!
I was commissioned by the UCL MA Museum Studies Exhibition Project group to design an image for their "War Transformed?" event at the Science Museum's Dana Centre. The event is described as follows: Has war gone beyond a human scale? Conflict has driven medical, scientific and technological developments - but at what cost to humanity? Do drones allow us to remain too detached? Ultimately, should we limit the innovations driven by war? My final image design (gouache, photocopy transfer, letraset, pencil, ink) is below, along with a few images of the process (click to enlarge). Click links for the exhibition's twitter feed and facebook group, and the crowdfunder site to donate. Event will take place on 7th May.
Emily and Graham asked for an image of a land rover to go on the back of their service sheets - click the thumbnails below to see the illustration process.
I was commissioned to draw a scene from C. S. Lewis' 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader', where the character Eustace is transformed from a dragon back into a boy through the lion Aslan's intervention. Like many of Lewis' books, there is a Christian allegory in the story, and so I was asked to include text from the Bible (Ephesians 4: 22 and Romans 12:2) in the illustration. Below: First draft Below: Final piece, pencil.
I visited the Weald and Downland museum on Monday, which works to conserve vernacular buildings. It is a strange concept - the museum is a 50 acre area of land with around 50 buildings that have been meticulously deconstructed on their original sites, kept in storage (I love the idea of houses kept in storage), then reconstructed on the museum's plot. Often every brick is individually numbered so it can be put back in place. Anyway, a couple of the buildings came from an area that was to be flooded and made into a reservoir, and I was imagining them underwater as I went looking round the museum. When I decided to paint a picture for Oliver's birthday present, I couldn't help but use the idea. (watercolour and gouache)
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