Monday 16 August 2010

Handmade and Vintage Fair

I have a pile of things waiting to be photographed (both for my shops and here)... waiting for some bright days to take good photographs. After the heat early on in the summer August has had a distinct air of Autumn - I hope that we get a few more warm and sunny days before Autumn really does set in!

Anyway, I decided that I can't wait any longer and I've started on my photography list...

Just over a week ago I went to a 'Handmaid and Vintage Fair' in Boxted, a village only a few miles from where I live. The fair was in the church hall - I had never been there before but knew it was small - I was suprised at just how tiny it was! There were about 8 stalls but the atmosphere was great and there were lots of shoppers too. I loved the mix of handmade and vintage - just my sort of thing! My sister and I especially liked one stall and bought these (the hair slides are mine!)...
by PrimChick - you can see more of her handmade vintage inspired goodies on Folksy

Thursday 12 August 2010

New Clockwork Bird - finished!

Clockwork Bird Model No.33 is now complete!

I decided to experiment with a different background to my other clockwork birds and have been looking at Victorian zoological/ botanical illustrations for inspiration. I like the simple 'aged' effect of this background (made using layered textures and digital painting) and the title - which is a combination of typed and hand written text.

My clockwork birds have been some of my most popular pieces - I'm just wondering how to continue the set... What do you think of this new background compared to the first two clockwork birds?

Clockwork Bird Model No.57...

Clockwork Robin...

Tuesday 10 August 2010

New Clockwork Bird - work in progress

Here's a special preview of a new clockwork bird illustration I'm currently working on...



Can you tell what sort of bird it's supposed to be?

I have plans for a whole series of clockwork birds. When I drew my first clockwork bird I picked a number at random for it's model number - I don't know why I chose 57 but now if I want to fill in all the other numbers I still need another 54 birds!! I'll have to be more careful at picking numbers at random from now on! :)