B.B.

I'm loving using watercolours at the moment and am focusing on honing my skills!

It's such a different technique than pencil drawing (which I do a lot of) but is way more fun.

I created this illustration, inspired by Kate Moss's latest Vogue shoot, and of course Brigitte Bardot!

I wanted to capture the essence of 60's bombshell.

xXx

M

White Lace

This is my latest illustration which is now on sale in my Etsy store as an A3 print.

I've also included a picture of the original sketch.

I've been absent from posting for a while and it feels good to be back doing it again!

So expect more soon, I've been very busy!

xXx

M

Fabulous Magazine

If any of you have the chance, check out Fabulous magazine today. 

I created some beauty illustrations for one of their features! 

It was such a fun project to work on, I adore drawing beauty products 

and also love using watercolours to come up with a really lively illustration.

M

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Progress: 007

Here is a current illustration I'm working on,

In the process of adding colour!

She's wearing a pearl cat ear hairband, how sweet!

Also a little peak into my workspace,

where I create all of my illustrations!

Merry Christmas everybody!

I'm feeling festive, wrapping gifts and watching Home alone! 

So here's a Christmas illustration treat for you all!

Merry Christmas!

xXx

M

DOLLS NIGHT OUT: KURT GEIGER

I'm super excited for tomorrow! 

Not only is it my birthday but I also will be at Kurt Geiger, Newcastle

 from 6.30 till 9.30pm as their in house fashion illustrator! 

Where I will be drawing the lovely ladies that come down for the "Dolls night out!" 

Check out the poster and come along and see me if you can!

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Chanel No 5

I have added another perfume bottle illustration print to my Etsy store.

The classic "Chanel No 5" bottle is a favourite of mine, 

as I'm sure it is to many people.

I'm also thinking of selling the original as I have so little space to

keep everything that I do! I hopefully want it to go to a good home, 

where it will be admired, not stored away!

Check out the print HERE!

xXx

M

New prints!

HI everybody!

I've been very busy of late,

 and finally have some brand new prints in my Etsy store.

They include some perfume bottle watercolour illustrations 

which I recently created for Canada's Glow magazine 

which I was very excited to be involved with!

I will have a full post on it soon.

Also available is the "Aurora" print

and the "Chanel rose" design.

There's lots of pretty prints to be had which 

I will constantly be updating, so keep checking in!

xXx

M

Zombie Nation

Halloween is nearly here! One of my favourite times of year! 

I always like to do themed illustrations, and anything dark is a real treat for me 

as I normally create quite girly illustrations.

Above is my interpretation of a zombie/frankenstein monster.

 I call her Frankie! 

I'd say she still looks pretty glamorous even as the living dead.

 It's not surprising as I based it on a photo of Zooey Deschanel 

(who always looks gorgeous)

I've included a sketch, before it was coloured.

I coloured and layered it digitally which really let me play about with the whole composition.

I also added some vintage movie poster text!

What do you think?

xXx

M

Chanel rose

I absolutely love working with water colours.

All the things that I love about them are also what make them such a difficult medium to master.

Their unpredictability, which gives a painting a spontaneous vitality.

Above is a hommage to Chanel. Inspired by their recent add campaign.

I smudged the paint a bit due to being too impatient to wait for it to dry,

 (or have the sense to get a hairdryer)

But thanks to the magic of photoshop,  I wasn't too put out.

I'm certainly not the first person to add drips to the Chanel logo,

 but I just love the way it looks!

With that in mind I think I'll be printing one of these for my wall

 (with a nice big black frame)

Hopefully soon I shall update my Etsy store and this one will certainly be

available.

Aurora

Here is my latest illustration Aurora

I created it using pencil, watercolour and digital media.

This will shortly be available as a print, 

once I get round to sorting out my Etsy store!

I have already produced a print of this and have added silver stars

to the sky in the background.

It's rather subtle but works nicely with the delicacy of the piece.

xXx

M

Etsy store: Céleste print

A new illustration entitled "Céleste" 

is now available as a print over on my Etsy store 

as a mixed media/print piece.

It is essentially a print wjich I have then 

drawn on top of with pencil, 

and also painted onto using silver paint.

The result is that no two pieces will ever be exactly alike.

I like to work this way as i like to have the basic lines form which to draw 

from, but also be able to add more definition and subtlety

 which I feel are things that can often be lost when a 

drawing is transferred to digital media.

My printer, although good, never gives me the full range of tones I want.

I want to be able to experiment and play around with a drawing 

and not be too precious with it. 

Scanning it and reproducing it gives me this freedom to play.

xXx

M

Top Santé illustrations #1

Here are some illustrations I recently did for the 

September issue of Top Santé.

I drew a range of illustrations demonstrating different exercises.

It is quite a change to my usual style, but I do like to 

change it up form time to time.

xXx

M 

Progress 006

I'm currently working on a mixed media piece 

for my Etsy store. 

It's partially a print with pencil drawn over the top 

(mainly shading and accentuation in the hair)

and also silver paint.

This one is A4, 

I had started working on an A3 but I spilled silver paint all over it 

so will have to start again.

While working I'm listening to Imogen Heap: Speak for yourself.

A brilliant album, which, for some reason is making long for 

cold rainy nights spent cosy indoors and also snow.

xXx

M

//ROSES//

The fruit of this evening's labour...

It was created using pencil, and digital methods.

xXx

M

//Happy Sunday//

Hi everybody! I've been terrible at posting anything lately,

but as it's now september, I'm in the "back to school" mindset!

it's time to knuckle down and do some serious blogging, 

which for me means it's time to do some serious illustration work!

I've got a head full of ideas and also a healthy backlog of 

previous commissions I've recently completed.

Also to maintain I have me newly improved website!

You can take a look HERE

It includes an archive of some of my previous commissions,

personal work and sketch book work. 

All of which I'm still in the process of adding to.

Above are some lovely inspirational imagery,

 which perfectly reflects my mood this morning!

Enjoy!

xXx

M

Art Nouveau flowers

Well it certainly feels like a long time since I posted, 

I've been so busy with illustration work lately 

which is, of course, the dream,  so I can hardly say it's a bad thing.

It also means that I will have lots of work to share with you all in due course!

Here is the the first,

a recent commission I created for a Lovely lady and her flower shop:

The Floral Quarter

I was really pleased with the way these turned out.

They are pencil drawings of three types of flower 

with a golden ink art nouveau border around each one

I was so precious with them while painting them as I knew that 

one slip of the hand and hours of work could be ruined!

I've also included some snaps of me painting one of them 

in what is my make-shift studio aka my dining room table!

Inspiration: Iris Van Herpen

Yesterday I came across this absolutely mind bogglingly

 amazing dress by Iris Van Herpen, called "the cathedral dress".

Reminiscent of an old gothic cathedral, the dress is made out of wood.

I find anything with such incredible detail and symmetrical pattern 

so fascinating from an illustrators point of view.

If I had the patience (and time) I would love to draw this accurately. 

But for now, I have drawn a rougher version. 

I decided to draw it on brown paper to give the feel of the wood 

while highlighting the skin with white chalk.

Watch out for more similar drawings of the Van Herpen couture,

 because I am seriously obsessed with this stuff!

xXx

M 

Bluebell...Aida in the dark.

This illustration, that I call "Bluebell", was created as part of a 

recent commission that I did recently for the lovely Victoria Sugden, for her 

Publishing degree at Stirling University.

It was a really great project to work on as I was to illustrate a 

fashion fairy tale!

This illustration was my favourite of all the ones I came up with 

and I was really happy with the way it turned out.

It was based on how a character perceived other people 

in the story and how their true colours show through!

More on the way soon

xXx

M

Mademoiselle Chat

A brand new illustration is available in my Etsy store.

It is an A3 print/ mixed media piece.

The original was a pencil and watercolour illustration, 

I digitally enhanced it, printed it out and then worked over the top of it 

with marker pen and pencil

xXx

M