Casual Jazz, Pie and Classy Comics.

Hi Hi,

Just a casual blog post mainly about a few days in London with friends last week :) The theme, it was decided, was of casual Jazz and Pie and included pilgrimages. For me my pilgrimage was to the headquarters of the wondrous NoBrow in Hackney. I love what they do and own a lot of their stuff hehe. Basically it's all lovely printed short comic's and prints and stuff if you didn't know. The other main pilgrimage was a mad rampage then across london to find...pie. Not just any old pie, Pieminister Pie! We fell in love with it both years we were at the 2000 Trees Festival where they have a stand each year, so we wanted to find the actual shop. It was on the Southbank by the Thames and it was lovely :)
We then stayed on the Southbank, but down by the Eye for a few hours watching the street performers and i did some sketchs...

The casual Jazz i mentioned was due to the exhibition was went to on the first night, at the portrait gallery. It was open till 9PM for 'the late shift' and it was too cool for school with jazz and champagne. The exhibition was the BP Portrait Award 2011 and was absolutely brilliant! I really recommend it if your about the place! Crazy skills on display!

Anywho, here's my sketch before the lines and colour of my most recent drawing up on DeviantArt...

Ickle Alex and Terry. You can see it finished HERE!

...An update on my veg plot... OH MY GOD COURGETTES!!

and my favourite thumbnail from the story i've just finished doing the rough storyboard for...

But i have to go re-join the real world now... I'm earning real money these next three days (dear god), working the Tall Ships festival in Gloucester. Yay money. Hope the sun stays out!

See ya Folks!

TEE xxx

There are birds on that Lampshade...

Hi Hi,

My uni summer work is going slightly wrong and it's loosing direction a bit. So i've turned to other creative outputs for a while hah...
Introducing the bird lamp!
I've wanted a standing lamp for aggggges but they are expensive! Anyway i found a lampshade in the sale part of a home store for a fiver and got the actual lamp part off my grandma (she had it in her attic).

But it needed decoration ;D

Here it is plain and simple. I added the blanket stitch and beads round the bottom myself...

It's quite fun sewing onto something you don't usually get to!

And then taarRR DARR...

In other news! The lettuce in my veg plot is ready and looking finnnneee. There are also some courgettes coming through AT LAST ahh hah!

Bye for now :)

TEE x

Summer Dreaming

Hi! It's been a busy week or so! What with craft fairs and me getting my new houses keys yesterday so i'm a tad excited. I'm also am off to a field this weekend for the local and spectacular 2000 Trees Festival! It's gonna be ace!
That aside, In my last post i mentioned a picnic me and my sis went on...so i thought id upload some of the sketchs i did. It was really lovely. I'm such a country bumpkin me :)

And such a lovely location and nice walk 10 minutes from our house...

I also took a pic yesterday of the crops down the lane next to our home where we walk our dogs. They really have gone such a beautiful colour i really wanted to capture it. I'm thinking of doing a picture with the colour scheme! haha.

And continuing along the country life theme, have a look at how my veg plot is doing :) Beetroots in no time!

Anyway, sorry for all the country side stuff! I'll be back with a bit on how the craft fair went and drawings!

TEE x

We are Nowhere and it's Now W.I.P plus veg!

hello!

I've had time to get back to drawing for myself for a while now and it's ace :) Amongst other things i did a full length painting of 3 of my characters. Fish, Bowl and Alex.
This time i remembered to photograph the whole process! So here it is! I hope you find it interesting :)

First the sketch on some random paper...

then 'light-boxed' onto watercolour paper...

then finishing touches and it's done :)

CLICK TO SEE THE FINISHED THING BIGGER

On a random side note...I finally got round to sorting out and re-seeding my veg plot hahah! Me and my dad built it last year together and the crop was hilarious...lots of radishes no one really wanted and everything else was really small because i didn't want to thin them out. THIS YEAR WILL BE BETTER! :D

That's all guys :)

Have a great weekend!

TEE x