Shop! shop! shop!

Hello, i am quite excited to let you know i finally have a few things up for sale as sirjessica on Etsy,  including a selection of Christmas cards and a few of my images available as prints.

'A Woodland Tea Party' giclee print available here.

Woodland Party

Have been rather busy over the last few months, getting settled and discovering what a wonderful place Oxford is to live. Have been taking advantage of the free lunchtime lecture series at The Bodleian which have been running alongside the Magic books exhibition. Really interesting talk yesterday called Wolves and Winter: Old Norse Myth in Children's Literature which i thoroughly enjoyed and has sparked lots of thoughts and given me rather a large reading list to go seek out. 

Also been working on a few projects and commissions, so i thought i would share a sneak peek at one of this year's Christmas card designs ....

Moving

Just a short post to say that things are quite quiet here at the moment because i am in the middle of moving house, finally, hurrah! I'm moving down to Oxford in a couple of weeks (though i already picked up the keys earlier this week) and am currently up to my eyebrows in boxes and paperwork. Super excited for it all to be over, and to be able settle in to my new studio which has a delicious amount of built in bookshelves and lots and lots of light!

Yes i can-can ...

Just a quick piece i did yesterday, I've been feeling a little lacking in will power over the last few weeks, so i thought maybe i should draw myself a Motivational Mascot and see where that leads me .... 

Been a little quiet ...

I've been a little quiet on the internet for the last few weeks, mostly because i was working super hard, attended the FCBG conference which i still intend to write a post about and best of all was helping my sister to get everything ready for her wedding at the end of April and helping to celebrate of course!

Massive congratulations to Rebecca and Peter!! 

Fairy Tales: Finished piece

It took me a while, but i finally finished colouring my Fairy Tales piece for the February Pencil Play theme, so here it is: 

Fairy Tales rough for Pencil Play

This month's theme for the Pencil Play collective is Fairy Tales which has made me very happy, so i thought i would get to work on it pretty much straight away, especially as i've been looking for a reason to draw more castles. I also came across this quote recently on pinterest, and it just seemed to fit with some of the thoughts i've had this week:

Once in a while, in the middle of an ordinary life, LOVE gives us a fairytale - unknown. 

Not so much because it says love, but because to me it implies being passive in your own life, that 'love' just happens and will make the mundane magical. That you don't have to go out of your ordinary way for things to happen to you. Well, i'm a bit fed up of that notion, i think you have to get out of your comfort zone and create your own adventures. So here is my rough for the fairy tale theme, the concept is that lots of bored princesses are just hanging around waiting for their 'princes' to come and rescue them, except for one ...