Framed art prints

It is really nice when you see your artwork in frames. I decided it was about time to display some of my illustrations in my apartment. I framed two of my illustrations 'What a smacker' and 'You are lovely'.

I framed these myself using a purple frame I bought from Urban Outfitters and a black frame I bought from Dunnes Stores. In the first photo I included some of my inspiration a Charlie Harper notebook and 'This is for you' ❤ Rob Ryan book. Also included is my lovely shaker box that I made in secondary school for my leaving certificate final project. :)

Retro Flowers

'Retro Flowers' is another invitation idea, I am really getting into this! I'm enjoying working with vector shapes and patterns. I decided a fun colour palette would be suitable for this design.

Check out the iPhone and Laptop cases, I hope you like them!

Heart of hearts

This is a graphic element from 'The Elephants with the heart of hearts' illustration. I thought the 'Heart of hearts' might work nice in colour and as a stand alone image.

I tend to do a lot of doodle sketches and leave them for a long time. Lately I've been looking through my drawing books and scanning in some of the work I like and think will either work as a pattern or a stand alone graphic.

Recently I have decided that when I am working on illustrations I will have to keep in mind how they will work on products. I'm loving this direction at the moment!

I hope you enjoy my illustration and design work in 2012! :o)

The elephants with the heart of hearts

This is my first illustration of 2012 titled 'The elephants with the heart of hearts'. 

I have been working on some ideas for wedding invitations for my two good friends. I decided I will do a few different illustrations, so that the couple have a choice to pick from. I want the artwork to be romantic and fun as I feel it is important to represent the lovely couple. Anyway this is one design I have completed so far., there are a few more to come!

I like this place

Your are lovely

Scavenger

Griffon Vulture 
I decided to work on an art print suitable for male and female! A lot of my prints are quite feminine in colour and subject. So instead of drawing a nice little Robin red breast I drew a vulture and used a dark background to set the mood :-)

Stencil screen printing - Little red fox

Screen printing is something I haven't done since I was in 5th year secondary school, a longgggg time ago....

I remember how much I really loved doing it and always thought about getting back into it. So today I went out and bought a speedball screen printing kit and got cracking.

I worked on a two colour stencil print, which I called Little red fox! I must admit I didn't put much thought or time into the stencil part, which explains why It didn't turn out the greatest!! Even so I did learn a lot and I did remember a couple of tricks. I also remembered cleaning the screen in a right pain in the arse!

I hope the next print I post is an improvement! :o)

Two Little Dickie Birds

other products available from society6

Coloured Zebra

Blind Elephant Submission

"I really don't care about anatomy. Something perfectly drawn to me is just somebody showing you they can draw" by Julian Schnabel

Tote bag and pillow cover available from Envelop.