Monthly Archives: September 2010

Balloon girl walks, dreams and escapes

Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2010 by

Continuing to upload never before seen archive material ; ) This was the first Balloon Girl book that I designed – in collaboration with my sister Jo, who wrote the words. It was aimed at young children. However, by the … Continue reading →

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The Kiss

Posted on Sunday, September 12, 2010 by

I made a couple of story books featuring Balloon Girl and this is one of them. It’s very simple and based on a picture called ‘giraffe kiss’, that you find if you search for giraffes on Google images, ‘ (watch out … Continue reading →

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London Escapes – looking for artistic owner

Posted on Friday, September 10, 2010 by

Last year, in May, I started a walking group for people interested in art called London Escapes. Every month we would venture out of London into the countryside and ‘discover’ something artistic in the wilds. I think my favourite event … Continue reading →

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Balloon Girl evolution

Posted on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 by

Went to see Toy Story 3 this evening. I loved Ken… what brilliant characterisation. He plays macho but slightly camp perfectly. The scenes in the dressing room are brilliant. Ken has a thing about clothes but no-one really understands… he … Continue reading →

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Website archive

Posted on Monday, September 6, 2010 by

It used to take me so long to create thumbnails for all my work by hand and post them on my website ugh. So now it’s all on Flickr and that’s where I’ll upload collections of work from now on.

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Tadpoles

Posted on Monday, September 6, 2010 by

Spent Saturday working up some tadpole drawings. Tadpoles are my new set of characters. So far I’ve been experimenting in Photoshop with how to illustrate Madpole: Madpole walking Madpole background And here are some drawings

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Tatty Devine and Rob Ryan

Posted on Monday, September 6, 2010 by

Then I went for a walk down Columbia Road and Brick Lane to the Rob Ryan shop and Tatty Devine to collect one or two things for my collection, as I’m now collecting some fashion and art things in a … Continue reading →

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Studio 3 visit

Posted on Monday, September 6, 2010 by

Today has been a looong day. This morning I met up with one of the Cartoon Heart members, Ezekiel, to show him Studio 3 at ACAVA which the club is hoping to rent between 20 of us. It’s spacious, enough … Continue reading →

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1st Spreadshirt sample

Posted on Saturday, September 4, 2010 by

Here you can see how small the image came out. Wearing the sample. Close up shows the deep colour of the flock print technique. My first T-shirt arrived in the post on Thursday from Spreadshirt in Germany. This was a … Continue reading →

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