In England it’s apparently not customary to tell people who had you for secret Santa after you open gifts. I must say, I find this tradition very odd. I’m 98% sure that my colleague Jo knows I had her, as being the only remote member of the office, I had to mail in the package […]
Category Archives: Artwork
This year I decided to hand paint all my Christmas cards. This was very time consuming, but an interesting exercise in replicating the same design over and over whilst trying to get the same outcome. First, some sketches to get started. Then, drawing the design, over and over again. Adding some colour, using red acrylic […]
I love painting chickens. I have no idea why. I don’t like chickens, I don’t even like eating them all that much. But there is something very satisfying about sitting down and painting them pecking at lemons. An old friend asked if I could do some new ones for Christmas presents, and here is the […]
Here are some friendly chicken paintings! All are acrylic and india ink, and are either or board or canvas. 30.5 cm x 15.5cm on board 30.5 cm x 15.5cm on board 25.5 cm x 20cm on stretched canvas 25.5 cm x 20cm on stretched canvas 25.5 cm x 20cm on flat canvas 18 cm x […]
Over the summer I worked on one of the biggest projects of my career – to design a window that had to go in every one of our 850 worldwide stores to launch our makeup range. It was a massive undertaking to find something that sold the product without giving too much information about it […]
Part of the joys of being slightly out of work is that your family hears the words “graphic designer with plenty of time on her hands!” and suddenly out of nowhere has lots of work for you to do! Great! This is one project I was very happy to help with- designing the Pulham Family […]
This is Jessica Ennis. She’s a gold medal winning British Heptathlon athlete and the reason I broke my foot. She is incredibly fit. I wanted to be her, basically, and running an hour a day every day for three weeks straight is apparently *not* the way to achieve that goal. So when Halloween came around, […]
Nothing like a tight deadline to get the painting thing off to a good start! Every year William Allen High School in Allentown, PA has a fundraising art show to raise money for the Allen Art Academy. The Academy is one of the BEST programs for nourishing and encouraging artistic development for teenagers, and allows […]
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