Christmas Village

It's been a crazy time lately... As well as handing in my first practical module for my MA coursework, I've been busy developing my portfolio for my agent to show at PG Live and Surtex - exciting!!

Here is something I worked on last week. I actually did three different scenes in this style, but I'm not sure I should be filling up my blog with so much Christmas stuff really, since everybody is in summer mode. So I thought I'd share just one!

Baby went to Amsterdam

... Four, five days for the big canal

I haven't been to Amsterdam sadly, but I had Peter Bjorn and John's Amsterdam song stuck in my head a lot when drawing this!

Put on your dancing shoes...

I had a little break from Christmas and did some girly cards for my Bright portfolio! I like the cat shoes best.

Chistmas comes but many times a year...

...(for me it does).. Well Springtime is finally here (hooray!) but the weather has turned the last couple of days so I thought I might as well post up a couple of my most recent Christmas designs for my Bright portfolio!

The Daddy robin is decorating to surprise the Mum and babies when they wake  up...

party hat time

I might still make some changes to this but wanted to update on the last post with my party hats in colour!

little update

Can't believe it's been a month since my last blog post! I've been juggling a few different things really - work for my agent, my MA coursework and I've also been freelancing for UK Greetings. It's been nice to have a mix again of working in a studio and working at home!

Thought I'd share a piece I'm working on today for my Bright portfolio. Animals in hats!

Will add the colourful version when it's done...

Slightly crazy easter bunnies

I had really good fun this week illustrating these Easter designs for my Bright portfolio!

happy sunday

Here's some milestone designs I've worked on this week for my Bright portfolio...

up & running

My profile has been set up with my new agents, Bright. Hooray!!

There's a few designs on there that I have developed for my Bright portfolio. More to come soon! Click on image to go to the page...

Oooh, it's all going on...

Hello!

Lots has been happening lately, I've had a really busy couple of weeks, not leaving the house much and working long days up in the attic! But today is an exciting day because I have signed and sent off my contract to join the Bright agency!! So in a way it feels like the hard work has paid off but of course, this is only the beginning...

Hopefully I'm going to be busy with lots of exciting things... Until I get commissions (and in between them) I will be doing speculative work that will be made available for licensing - and this work I'll be free to share with the world as I do it. So, I hope this blog will become a bit more interesting from now on!

Here are my first designs I have done for the agency this week, for Mother's Day and Christmas:

I was thinking of my own Mum when I thought up these Mother's Day designs. She is indeed my biggest fan and she's thrilled about me getting an agent! And also with the bag illustration... my Mum manages to fit all kinds of things into the tiniest bag! She also takes her own teabags everywhere, hence the little teabag in this bag!