last lady of letters

The article Ive chosen is taken from the Seven magazine that comes with the Sunday Telegraph and it is a interview with the remaining Mitford Sister, Deborah Mitford (Duchness of Devonshire) and she talks abit about her life and the letters the six sisters used to regularly write to each other. I thought it was a really interesting article, there is a section were she talks about having tea with Hitler and how she thought it was odd to discover that he had "A.H" embroidered on his washroom towels. Just Brilliant!
These images are handmade textures and drawings that Ive played around with on photoshop (it is my new bestfriend). I'm unsure which I should chose as I like both colour schemes, any feedback or suggestions would be greaty appreciated! ^_^

hello chocolate bunnies

The book is quality! Id suggest you give it a read I couldnt put it down which resulted in a few late nights and a smacked hand at work for being late a couple of times, but it was worth it. I have another idea which Ive been playing with on photoshop but Im really pleased with how this one turned out so it will probably be my chosen final image. I used carbon paper to draw the rabbits and its built up of scanned pages from my sketchbook with my usual handwritten text that I worked into with photoshop. I may go back and play with it more but we'll see.

stylin' in the mud

I went to Connect festival all the way in Scotland over the weekend and thankfully I took some wellies because Ive never seen so much mud. My friends Mark, Dave and Fi kindly pimped my wellies for me as they were just plain green ones which just wouldnt do at all! they also did my friend Penny's wellies too and even though we got stuck in the mud quite a few time we looked the coolest so there! ^_^ It was a great few days that went FAR TOO fast, today in work I felt alittle sad but I cranked up Regina and that made me smile again ^_^ (apologies for rubbish photo's my camera isn't as young as it used to be)

random things make for random fun

They dont have much to do with anything really except I collect random things like wrapping paper, fruit stickers, paper, napkins etc. So I just wanted to play around and make some pictures with them, try and empty my art draw out alittle.

how to redo a love letter

This work is based on an article called "how to write a love letter" that was from the Guardian which was part of our digital elective, I have to re-submit the final images for this project which is actually a good thing because the original ones I no longer like, the colours just didn't work at all, there's too many of them and too much going on in such a small image, also I got the resolution COMPLETELY wrong which made it all pixelated and yeah, rubbish. Now I have had a chance to rethink my ideas I have limited my colour palette to no more than 4 colours and I have simplified them, lets hope these two work.

Hooray for sweets.

Sherbet lemon's, blackcurrant liquorice's, parma violet's and chocolate lime's, if they weren't being passed round in work Id hide under the covers and cry sickness when the alarm went off in the morning.
I would take cola cubes in to work but I'm afraid I just wouldn't be able to share them ^_^ ultimate favorite sweets sorry.

don't eat toast before bed...

So there I was, nibbling some toast as I scribble down some ideas last week when I look over at the clock and see its getting rather late so I put my sketchbook down, get into bed and switch the lamp off. Sorted.
I wake up in the morning only to find little birds all over my open sketchbook!! I wasnt sure at first how it had happened but then it hit me, the toast crumbs! birds are suckers for some good crumbs and it was tasty bread too an all I might add! Now I dont mind them, infact they are quite cute but they arent half noisey, all they have done all week is stay up chatting away half the night! I think I might send them away to be with ladysnails bluebirds, all we get is bully magpies around here so they might prefer it with her and the funny moorhen.