Bunting

I love decorating the house up for Christmas, and coming up with a theme. Here is the post about what I did last year.
I'm not one for traditional decorations, red and green is a bit done, and tinsel is rather tacky. This year i was thinking it might be nice to make some bunting. And not christmassy bunting, but with vintage style fabrics. Christmas being in summer here in Australia, I thought it would be nice to do something colourful and cheerful, a celebration of the holidays and end of year.

the first sneak peak

Well I'm working hard to get my illustrations done for the Once upon exhibition, now with one illustration down and 3 to go. I was struggling a little with my second drawing, as I had an idea but nothing I was doing seemed to be working out, perhaps I just need a break from it. But today, I finally cracked it, I think, and it seems to be working out, so in celebration I thought I'd share a small sneak peak of the beginnings of an illustration. (Just to give you a glimpse of the early stages) Oh by the way, I don't think I mentioned, my theme is princess and the pea :)

Blog Love: Unicorn Diaries

Beautiful images found on this gorgeous blog Unicorn Diaries

Once Upon Exhibition

Feeling disheartened by the “Sydney Art Scene” Renee Anne and Angela D’Alton (of Leeloo) decided to hold the exhibition to celebrate Leeloo’s 2^nd birthday, in one of Sydney’s best underground venues supporting struggling artists, aMBUSH gallery. Fast forward a few months, over 100 submissions and a lot of headaches later, Renee and Angela have curated 38 of the finest Australian artists participate in the ‘Once Upon’ exhibition which will no doubt be a highlight on the Sydney art calendar. Including some of Australia’s top emerging talent, amongst newcomers, with a wide variety of styles.

Each artist has been allocated their own fairy tale to interpret, and 30 of the artists will create four original and new artworks to exhibit. Also due to the volume of submissions, there will also be ‘On The Wall’, where a further 8 artists involved will submit one piece to be included.

Opening Night: Thursday November 19th. at aMBUSH gallery from 6pm-9pm.

The show will continue to open daily from Friday to Sunday, and there will be a Leeloo ‘Pop up store’ for the public to have a hands-on look at some of our gorgeous online goodies.

For more info visit the website or follow Once Upon on twitter

I'm very excited about the upcoming ‘Once Upon‘, exhibition. In which I will be one of the exhibiting artists (my first exhibition!!!) and I also got to design and illustrate this poster for the event, which was a lot of fun. Forth Thread (which I am part of) are also proud supporters of the event.

scrumptious cupcake

I have a new cupcake purse now in etsy. I have been a bit slow about keeping up with etsy these days, but slowly getting there. Brand new colours :) Enjoy
Still hoping to get some new designs coming along soon, if I can just get up to date with all my other work.

sold out blues

Polaroid pop up box from nothing elegant
1930s Faux Bois Royal Typewriter from Poetic Home


I always find it sad when i discover something I really love on etsy and it ends up being sold, i guess thats what you get from browsing through other peoples favourites, but thats usually how I find really nice things. These are two things I recently found, fell in love with, only to discover they were already sold.

trendy cross stitch

Mustache Pin by Nea wear



Key by Andwabisabi



Fawn and Flower by Nea wear



Geek girl cat eye by You Heart Us



The guardian by What Delilah Did



owl love you always by Chez Sucre Chez


Gone are the days of cross stitch being an old lady craft, these trendy crafters make it cool again.

electric lego

Electric Feel from Tabitha Patterson on Vimeo.

As an assignment, I had to create 30 seconds of a music video clip, so after much hard work, its finally done. Hope you enjoy it :)

David Sparshott

I really like David's carefree, sketchy style of illustration, it feels relaxed, like a lazy afternoon spent drawing.
Davidhas work for a variety of clients includinge howies, make architects, BASCA, University of West England, The Illustrated Ape magazine, and Umbro, supersuperficial and Timberland.
Website.

Total Girl Wonderland

I recently did some illustrations for total girl. I illustrated the chairs, tea cups, 'alice in wonderland' title, clock, card men and cat in tree. Rather a fun brief.

recent polaroids

Some recent Polaroid shots I took, finally scanned them in. These were taken in various places around Sydney.
I just bought a Holga camera the other day, so I can't what to find some time to give it a go.