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new year

a slightly belated happy new year! this little blog has lacked updates over the past few weeks for various reasons (working, living in two places, festivities, getting tinnitus) but i feel it in my bones that this is the year for getting back on track, blog-wise & otherwise.

there have been a couple of big changes that have been stewing for months. firstly, i'm finally living in glasgow. whilst quite a bit of my stuff is still residing on the east coast (including the contents of my desk), i'm now in this city full-time. our new flat is lovely, quiet, bigger, better. we live close to big parks, transport to the city centre, a greengrocers & lots of good places to eat. i'm very excited to be somewhere new.

secondly, something that isn't full-time anymore is my day-job. i'm really happy i can still work part-time (it's a bit of a commute away) but i'm also really happy that there's more time than ever before to spend drawing, making, printing. this is something i've been dreaming about for years, & now it's time to get to work.

2012, i have high hopes for you.

a lucky white rabbit with a little golden tail.

shop update: activity zine

stave off rainy day boredom! pick up your pencils & battle dark winter evenings! fight long train journeys & arrive at your destination feeling glorious & victorious! well, hopefully & perhaps. the newest addition to my shop is a twenty page activity zine. complete drawings, dream up patterns & add your flair to some silly little illustrations of mine. have some fun along the way too. pick one up from today.

shop sale

get 20% off your order in my etsy shop until fri 20 january with coupon code HELLO2012. there's prints, cards, notebooks, zines & more - i'll be adding to this over the next few months, but for now you can get a nifty deal on current stock.

prints on sale

just a note to say that my new prints were delivered early & are now on sale: botanic I, botanic II, the botanic package & the bison.

zine #2

after an unexpected & wholly unappreciated hiatus, part two of sleeping on the sleeper is finished! now i just need to complete part three, send to print & bind bind bind. above is the tiniest of snippets from zine #2.

new ways of living (ii)

another piece from 'new ways of living' for the looking for trouble exhibition in nottingham.

titled keys, phone, wallet, the objects pictured are three items (cup, knife, compass) that would prove useful towards survival in the great outdoors, but come further down the line in terms of things that are considered necessary for every day life.

tattooed lady

feels good to do a bit of drawin' again.

after a short hiatus, taken as a means of sorting out some life-stuff, i picked up my pencil & paintbrush to create the above. this lady is the illustrated version of last year's hallowe'en costume; a 1920's tattooed lady. her tats are a bit less complicated than the ones i decided to ink on myself (seriously, do you know how hard it is to draw a stag on the back of your calf?), but i'm liking how simple they are & how happy she looks to have them.

sometimes things don't turn out like you planned, but they're not so bad.

testing...

colour test for a personal project.