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Tag Archives: nature
peacock
a few months ago i developed a series of works based on peacocks. i’d been wanting to develop this work for a while and produced outcomes that included drawing, digital collage and traditional collage. The first piece I worked on … Continue reading
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Tagged art, art and design, birds, collage, design, digital illustration, handmade, illustration, made by hand, nature, peacock
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bugs
i’m working on a series of insect-based illustrations using ladybirds (or ladybugs), as the starting point. here’s the first two i’ve completed. there’s been some new challenges in producing them – although they only contain about 40-50 individual cut pieces … Continue reading
riso printing @ rope press
i recently attended a riso zine workshop at the splendid rope press in birmingham. i’d been wanting to attend one of their workshops to learn a bit more about and have a go at the risograph printing process for a … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arts, artwork, collage, drawing, flowers, illustration, landscape, nature, outdoors, printing, riso, risograph, rope press, self-publishing, sketch, sketchbook, zine
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may your christmas be bright and happy
season’s greetings… wishing you a happy christmas and all the very best for 2015. (my illustration and the sentiment was inspired by victorian christmas cards that like to depict birds on a cold winter’s day. I like that they are … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artwork, bird, birds, christmas, christmas card, digital collage, digital illustration, illustration, nature
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season’s greetings
well, hello there. i hope that you all had a great christmas and i wish you all the best for the new year. it’s been a while since i wrote on here (so my first new year’s resolution is to … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arts, artwork, bird, chris cowdrill, christmas card, collage, digital collage, digital illustration, drawing, fieldfare, greetings card, holiday, illustration, landscape, nature, outdoors
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birds
i worked on these little critters a couple of weeks ago and was really chuffed with how they turned out. they were a lot of fun to do so i’m going to do more of them and develop work that … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arts, artwork, bird, chris cowdrill, collage, illustration, nature, outdoors
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seed heads
in the recent group exhibition with which i was involved, i exhibited 5 pieces of work – only 4 of which have appeared on here previously. they were thistles, bramble, fence and crow. the fifth piece was one which i … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arts, artwork, birmingham, collage, drawing, flora, flowers, illustration, landscape, nature, outdoors, plants
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crow
so… the fourth piece in the series is again inspired by a brief glimpse of something while i was out running earlier this year. i looked up, saw a bird in the bare branches of a tree and thought – … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arts, bird, birmingham, crow, digital collage, digital illustration, drawing, illustration, landscape, nature, outdoors
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fence
following on from the last blog – the third piece in this series was inspired by a fence. in particular – what was in front of the fence and what was behind it – with the fence acting as an … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arts, birmingham, digital collage, digital illustration, drawing, flowers, illustration, landscape, nature, outdoors, plants
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