I love letterpress

I've just got in from a fun night at printmaking... now I really want to buy lots of letters and stamps.

O Christmas Tree

I've made a christmas tree rubber stamp and have been screenprinting snow.  Here are some of the pages from my sketchbook and a bit of development.

Starbuck's Red Cups

I like the simplicity of this illustration - clean sharp lines and simple colour.

New Home

I've been looking at people's front doors all week for Ipswich Building Society's latest mortgage poster and can't stop!  I thought these doors would look good as New Home cards too!

Developing

Getting going

I've got my Carluccio's vocabulary all photocopied up now and am spending some time playing around with page layouts for a little book!

Benvenuto a Carluccio's

Here are some of my notes from Carluccio's Cambridge.  I was eating my food as slow as I could so I could stay and draw for longer... there was so much to see but the waitress didn't understand this!

Mermaid Cafe

These are fab.  They are part of a series of lino cuts by Jonny Hannah.

I especially like the marks he has used and the paper he has printed on.

Carluccio's

Im excited about finally getting back to Cambridge tomorrow to study Carluccio's some more.  I want to gather alot of visual information whilst Im there.  I will look at colours, shapes and interesting compositions and I will look at the words around.   The colours and shapes of this packaging reminds me of when I was at Carluccio's last time.  I'll hopefully put up some drawings tomorrow when I get back.

ribbon

KB

I'm developing a logo for a client, who wants her initials to be in ribbon.  I've got the shape,now for the colour.

Talking of printmaking...

I'm about to start a printmaking course on Tuesday nights,  I want to use the time to experiment and develop my printing.  I have lots of ideas of things to print, so many, its hard to know what to do first.  

I like the shapes of these labels though, and also have some good looking bottles in my studio which could look good printed.

Posters

Had a good days printmaking this week and got the artwork for these posters finished.  I'm liking the colours.

Fifteen

I like this page layout with the large expanse of colour and the positive shapes on the top.

This morning Im developing some roughs for a client.

Aldeburgh Stones

I've not long been back from camping at Aldeburgh and here are some characters I made on the beach, with a piece of fire wood i found...

Adrian Johnson

I've just come across the work of Adrian Johnson... 

B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L

Final Poster!

Just in time... I managed to get it finished after ALOT of changes and development.

The Galley posters

Busy trying to complete a piece of work for a competition.  Im making a poster based on the jazz and lobster drawing I posted up last month. Im thinking through the design at the moment...

Salami

I like big letters

I found this on a salami at work

Together. We can do it.

I've been asked to be involved in the re-branding of African Adventure, an activities residential for local schools.  I made a rubber stamp, which I may use as the logo.

Ipswich Building Society launch

What a brilliant morning!

Samba!!

I did a bit of drawing whilst at the Ipswich Building Society launch...

Screenprints

I have been busy this week getting these screenprints done for Ipswich Building Society...

We're having a party

Some of the illustrations I have done for Ipswich Building Society so far.

I'll be drawing at the launch party at Sudbury next Saturday and will post some photos up from that!

Jazz and Lobster evening

Here are the beginnings of a jazz and lobster image...