Trying To Worry Less About Looking Like I'm Being Productive/what Others Think/money. Focussing On Enjoying

i shaved off a good few weeks worth of growth at the weekend & now i miss it.

perpetual bicycle

new in the shop: perpetual bicycle notebooks, screen-printed & bound by yours truly. i like them so much i'm even keeping one for myself.

i've been itching to make some new totes for a while, & not long ago came up with this guy; a big ol' lion on a big' ol tote. i'm liking how this golden feline stands out against the dark navy cotton, & i hope you like it too. you can find these over in my shop for £10/$15.

experimenting with gouache in the least experimental way possible.

peek

one of the pages from my sleeping on the sleeper zine. finally managed to finish it, now to print, photocopy & bind.

knitting

sometimes it's nice to be given a simple topic to draw something for, rather than thinking of one yourself. a friend needed an editorial illustration for a publication she was producing in the final year of her master's degree, & asked if i'd illustrate a piece on knitting.

this may not be new to you if you follow me on flickr. a good place to catch up on bits & pieces whilst i find things to fill up this space.

i'm in the middle of editing some photos i took of my screen-printing process - it's kind of difficult to be the one doing the printing whilst using the camera! anyway, the above is one of the better images i got. it's just as well i was only using black ink, as i am the worst at deciding on colours to use; ALL OF THEM is often a bad decision in hindsight.

then.again Sometimes I feel a bit at a loss at what to draw so, last year, I started drawing my Instagram feed in chronological order. After a bit of a hiatus due to being busy with work and moving to another continent (hello, Canada), I've recently picked it up again. It's good to have ready-made references that I can depict in new ways, and things I might usually avoid subject-wise (landscapes! cars! men!) are going to provide an interesting challenge. You can keep up by following along here.

new ways of living (iii)

third & final piece from 'new ways of living' for the looking for trouble exhibition in nottingham.

cabin is a triptych, featuring a hint of a narrative if you read from left to right (but you can read it however you want). pretty much all i could think whilst creating this was how much i'd like to be in this drawing. the cabin may be structurally unsound, but there's an incredible view.

Annual new year's discount tiiime: get 15% off your order with coupon code HELLO2014 in my shop until Thu 7 January - I'm also giving away my Cabin screen-print with all orders over £6/$10 (before shipping) throughout January (whilst stock lasts). Hurrah!