Lovely news darlings! You can now download a free print of mine! That’s right, FREE!
It’s the most recent download from the Feed Your Soul Free Art Project.
Which is being hosted by Indie Fixx which is one of my most favourite blogs ever!
Have a click, download and you can print it for free!
Love and cupcakes!
A few weeks ago I had a brain wave, and ordered some stamps to make business cards.
Yay! They finally arrived!
Here they are:
Cute no? This is for the front of the card.
And this one was for the back. They are from a LOVELY etsy store called Terbear Collectables and they do all sorts of customer rubber stamps.
I also got these two darlings as a surprise freebie!
The owl is my favourite!
As soon as they arrived I raced out and bought myself a red stamp pad.
Here are the finished cards:
Front.
Pretty cute huh?
AND to hold my lovely new creations I also picked up this gorgeous business card holder from J.Carter Handmade.
Isn’t it just the loveliest? All her things are SO divine I could just go crazy.
In other news I just painted my toenails pink and yellow, and am about to head off for an rainy, cold, Sunday afternoon nap with my boy.
Paradise.
xoxo
You may not know this. But every painting or illustration I make starts with a doodle. Well, it starts with an idea, which then somehow finds it’s way down my pen onto the page when I least expect here.
Here are some of my doodles, which will one day (when I get some damn time!) will be turned into paintings or illustrations.
Warning: This post will be WAY image heavy.
These are my tools of choice. Pens and little notebook from Typo. As you can see, they are quite battered, because they live in my bag constantly.
The one at the bottom is my favourite.
I’ve gotten into drawing characters with one black eye and one white eye. Not sure why!
This was a boy I saw on the train once.
My favourite thing about this one is her bendy arm.
Nom.
I think I may leave this one as is, and just fill it in with some watercolour. What do you think?
These last three I’m hoping to turn into etsy prints and then greeting cards. Pretty sweet for Valentines day yes?
I think this one would make a cute print as well.
Maybe soon I’ll be able to show off the finished products!
Well, lovely news lovelies!
It seems I’ve had three paintings published in Blanket Magazine which is a rad online PDF magazine featuring emerging artist from all around the world!
The cover art is lovely no?
Anyway, I’ve had three paintings published Little Sister, Bang Bang and The Singer which I probably consider to be some of my best work.
If you are so inclined, you can buy the issue here. It’s all online, so it saves trees (yay!) and only costs $2 (whoa cheap!). My paintings are on page 42!
Some actual art tomorrow (yay doodles!)
Love, Love, Love and Crayons!
Well. I’m back.
I know, you didn’t even know I was gone! My parents and I sent to Sydney for what was supposed to be one night, to visit my grandparents for their 80th Birthdays! We had a swell weekend, but got to the airport on Sunday night to find that ALL the flights had been canceled. So, the airport was just swarming with crazed people, all wanting to get onto flights. So, we were stuck in Sydney for another two nights.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Sydney, but anywhere sucks when you have no clean clothes and no shampoo! Luckily, Mum and I did some shopping, which was delightful.
Anyway. I’m back from where-ever I was and I have news!
I’m totally in love with this particular blog.
Jen, from Indie Fixx is running a fabulous art project called Free Your Soul. Every month, a FREE artwork is available for download to the public, and I’ve been invited to participate!
I’ve submitted my painting (that you can download and print for FREE). I’ll keep you posted as to when my painting will be available for download, so you can have a piece of mine on your wall for nothing!
I’ll post again soon, I have two rolls of Holga Tim to get developed, and a whole heap of hipstamatic photos to show off.
Love and sprinkles!
Hey lovelies! I’m a member of this terrific site called Doodlers Anonymous, it’s practically the funnest (yes I just used a word that does not exist) website ever! It’s all in homage of the good, old fashioned doodle!
I’ve entered a doodle in the napkin doodle showcase competition!
Here’s my doodle, seen this before? This is really old! Note how crumpled it is, I’m not really sure why I kept it. But it came in handy!
If you’re interested, head to the site and vote for my doodle! I could win a fun T-Shirt and praise and accolades! Haha!
More big news to come soon!
Love! Love!
Here she is:
What do you think of her?
I really thinking that this is more of my old style, a la Monday and Thursday (PS, isn’t it fun that I can link straight to my portfolio?) But I missed the shading of the face, and intricate colours I can achieve with watercolour pencils. I’m just not clever enough to get that with watercolour straight.
She’ll probably go up on etsy today or tomorrow. 
Comments greatly appreciated!
Also, I have had some feedback – mainly from my Dad who I sent my portfolio too last night – that the front page (eg the title page) of the website is not intuitive enough. Apparently he sat there for five minutes waiting for the rest to load and then gave up. However when I see a page like that I immediately click.
Should I add “Enter” perhaps? To make it a little more self explanatory? What do you think?
Also for lols, here is a picture of my website via my iPhone. Exciting no?
Have a smashing Monday, darlings!
Well yesterday I said I was finishing a new painting, and I would never lie to you!
First I’m going to do a process post, so you can see the steps I went through. Then I’ll post the finish product, ooh suspense!
Well, obviously, I started out with the pencil line art.
^ This is my monster jumper. Perfect for making art in.
Next came the pencil art. I love watercolour pencils, they make watercolouring (I just invented a word) much more detailed. Plus I love the liney, watery texture they create.
Here she is all painted up. Then I just had to add the watercolour background and she was done.
Check out my next post for the finished product!
xo C
Yay! I’ve been working on it for a few weeks now, but my new portfolio website is finally up and running!
Pretty snazzy huh? I designed it in iWeb which is quite useful, and OH so easy.
I’m quite happy with how it turned out, and luckily, one of the perks of having a lovely nerdy boyfriend, is that I had tonnes of help getting it all set up. So my boy is definitely in the good books at the moment (not that I suppose he’s ever been out of them!)
Go and check it out because I’d love to know what you think of it!
Tomorrow, there will be a big post with my newest painting! All finished!
xoxo Goodnight Starlight!
You may remember my last post about zines. In it I talked about the Reverse Cymbal Press zine pack I received.
In the pay was the zine May, which is part of the 13 Month Project, a new zine gets released each month, from December 2009 to December 2010. Inside the zine it said, “Publishing emerging artists, anyone can apply.” So I did.
Which is exciting, because I’ll be having an artwork published in the September Zine which is coming out soon!
You can check out their Facebook Group here, where you can get the zine for only $2.
Happy Zinestering!
