Bauble Illustrations

Some illustrations of baubles for Christmas...one themed for my company, eatbigfish. The idea is that they can be screen printed on tote bags, otherwise I can separate them as use the baubles as gift labels.

Four Weddings and a Funeral

A friend asked if I could make him a cut out to give to his wife for their first wedding anniversary (awww). One of her favourite films is Four Weddings and a Funeral, so we both meticulously went through the film in search for an appropriate quote. Apologies for the quality of the photos, they were taken in a hurry from my phone. This is the first time I made my own mount, it didn't go as badly as I thought it would.

The Warriors A5 Mock-ups

 

A friend asked if I could mock-up some designs for his favourite film, The Warriors. I tried to pick out iconic imagery from the film as the quotes are generally quite length. As these are only A5 mock-ups, I haven't added the amount of detail that I would if they were larger. I have to say my favourite is Swan...

Story House

eatbigfish asked me to create a Story House for them to present to a client. The concept behind it is that each story has different needs with specific occasions/audiences, which the Story House helps to illustrate. For example...the garage - stories of discovery or invention: things we take out to help us make our future.

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Luggage Tags and Vinyl

What A Wonderful World

My Grandparents gave me numerous scalpels and a beautiful wooden box to house all of my arty bits and bobs in for my Birthday so to say thank you I have made them an A3 paper cut out. I still need to add a few details to the flowers and then frame and mount it...

De Waag

In January I was lucky enough to work in De Waag, a lovely building in the heart of Amsterdam. Although it looks like something from Disney it has a rather diverse past, some of which is quite dark; a weigh house, a fencing hall, a furniture workshop, an oil lamp workshop, a fire station, hold city archives, carry out punishments (there was a guillotine located outside), a museum, an anatomical theatre etc. I created a drawing with fine liners which I then finished off with some watercolours...I haven't used anything other than a scalpel for quite some time.

CD Cases

Stuart Gough and I created these Paper Cut CD cases for his sister as a gift for Christmas. Stuart created the templates for the cases and three of the designs, I created the one above (I was meant to do two but came down with a serious case of the sniffles!). From the top right (the red case) they were for The Lumineers, Django Django, First Aid Kit and finally Alt J. I think they make a great personalised present!

Crown Christmas Card

 I was asked to create the Crown Christmas card again this year which was a great compliment! I decided to make the actual paper shape in to a snow globe this time which is new for me as I've only created items to international paper sizes before (except the birds). The design intern, Indra, photographed the piece, added some aspects of snow and put a wooden background in to it which really brings out the shape and of the cut out. These were printed and sent out to clients and suppliers.

Office Decorations

These decorations are incredibly simple and easy to make. I was making the office look a little more festive and decided to use the bits and bobs that we had going spare. You can use any colours you like and edit the text to your own preference so you can completely customise it. Just cut two strips of paper, both the same width but make one about 3 cm shorter than the other, cut your text out making sure you leave the bottom of the letters attached to the paper, bend the letters up and staple/glue the paper together to create a circle. Simple!

Black Labrador Illustration

I love dogs. There, I've said it. So I decided to show my love for canines with a dog series starting with this Black Labrador. It's a simple paper cutout that I'm going to be listing on Etsy and there's more dogs to come. I've just started working on a Jack Russell and one of my underestimated favourite...the Staffordshire Bull Terrier.

Aotearoa

A girl at work to create something for her that reminded of her home country, New Zealand. She requested to have the word 'Aotearoa' in it which is the Maori word for the country which I popped in a banner and illustrated Kowhai plants behind which are apparently very common in NZ. She also asked to have her two family names carved  in to the tree trunk.

Matt & Jemima

I  was asked by the same girl as before to do another piece for her...a returning customer! She requested another organic and natural design with the names of her cousin and her new husband. This illustration is something that I haven't really done before as I've normally built the piece around the text, whereas was the other way round. One VERY annoying issue and the first mistake I have ever made with paper cutting is that I drew the ampersands the wrong way round! I always draw the design on the reverse of the paper backwards and just didn't think when I drew it. Hmmm.

Mike & Celia

I was commissioned by two girls at work to make a piece for their friend's wedding to give as a gift. The brief was that they are humanists, are 'very green' and something Rob Ryan-esque, so I decided to go with an A3 organic, illustrative design without any of the normal icons associated with weddings (ie wedding bells, church etc).

Domesticated

I was asked to create something for some friends for Christmas, however, I completely missed that deadline and gave it to them in February! They've just had it mounted and framed and sent me this picture to show how it looks on their wall...not bad? The cut out consists of three layers and features a bullfinch and blossom (bad quality close up below).

Christmas at Crown

So I realise this post is a little late but December has proved to be extremely busy. I'm now working at a live events company in Shepherd's Bush, London called Crown. I'm doing all sorts of bits and bobs from manning Reception to market research and even mouse hunting. However, after talking to the Creative Department (Dan Osman and Casey Evans) they decided to let me design and create the Crown Christmas card this year...so of course I whipped out my scalpel and made a paper cut (check out the Christmas pudding 'O').

The final paper cut was photographed and converted into a PDF by Dan Osman (http://www.bravoandtango.co.uk/)

Here is a link to the Crown Blog where you can see more of the cut out and other lovely creative posts:

http://alwayscurious.crownbc.com/

Words Of Wisdom

So all my work with text has been about quotes. Seeing as my course was 'Fine Art' I thought I'd look at the old masters and the words of wisdom that they have to offer. I produced a little A6 book as I figured it was nicer to have it as a collection.

Commission Poster

I have been asked to make 'The Birds' into a poster for somebody, which is something I hadn't actually thought of doing...especially if it's not paper cut! I've been preparing to open up a shop on Etsy so it's something that would work quite well on there considering postage etc. Maybe it's something that I could do to a lot of my work...convert it into a printed poster? Here's a mock up...(the block lines obviously won't be there, that's just to illustrate the edge).

Free Range at The Old Truman Brewery

What can I say...it was amazing. Fantastic experience and there was some great work there that week. This is my area that I exhibited in at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane. Both 'The Birds' and 'Psycho' sold at the show to two very lovely people who I hope will enjoy the work. Sorry about the quality of the pictures.

Business

So I haven't been on here in ages...sorry! It's been pretty mental recently with moving out of my lovely house in Bath back in with my Mum. Plus of course there has been our show Free Range on Brick Lane in London. I got perforated postcards made for all of the pieces of work that I exhibited (all of which went!) and some cut out business cards which Ben Mottershead very kindly laser cut for me...there was no way I was going to cut 200 business cards by hand!