Beautiful butterfly wing tests in resin :)

Hello everyone!

So this weekend I decided to experiment a little more with my resin making and use something a little different to flowers or dandelion seeds...

A couple months back, I received a little mystery box from my sister, inside there were the remains of a little tortoiseshell butterfly, who unfortunately met its end in the attic of our workplace, along with a few others (from we think heat exhaustion or being trapped in).

So I decided to keep it somewhere safe until I could preserve its beauty forever inside some resin, and here is the result...

I am very pleased with how they came out, and they will soon be made into some necklaces, although I'm a little reluctant to sell them just yet :p

New Tote Bags with my Watercolour Illustrations!

Hi everyone!

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend in this fabulous weather we are currently having, with lots of ice creams and Mojitos to be had!

I worked on a little photoshoot with my niece this weekend for some new illustrated tote bags, which have all been listed in my Etsy shop here, so check em' out :)

My latest coloured pencil commission!

Here's my latest A3 size portrait commission which was created with Polychromos and Prismacolour coloured pencils.

It took a grand total of around 40 hours overall, mostly because of the detail in that shirt and piano!

Hope you like :)

New Galaxy iPhone cases added in a variety of designs!

So I have been busy designing some new iPhone cases, and decided to give them that cosmic edge, 

because as you may I know I am a bit obsessed with it :)

Designs are currently rabbits, cats, unicorns and a wolf head (a little Game of Thrones-esque)

They are all listed in my shop for only £10 and fit iPhone 4,4S,5 and 5S 

Enjoy looking!

Quick sewing project!

Hi everyone!

So my niece has been bugging me to make her a dolly for quite sometime, and last weekend I had the time to get the sewing machine out and give it a whirl!

I am actually really pleased with the results, considering this is probably my second sewing project ever since like school, plus I got to use my shiny purple baby :)

If you would like to make a dolly like this one, I used this tutorial, which has some really easy to follow instructions and clear photos to help :)

Going crazy with ProCreate

Hi!

So I have recently discovered an app for iPad called ProCreate, it is a painting app with amazing abilities and it also records a time-lapse! Woop!

This makes me happy as I have made time-lapses in the past of my coloured pencil drawings (the old fashioned way) and even though they are very satisfying in the end, they take foreverrrrr to put together.

Anyway! My first real piece of art on this app was of a sharky, which I put together while I was on holiday, and I have created a video of the entire process to share with you lovely people :)

Enjoy here :)

Galaxy Jewellery! Whooooo!

Hi guys!

So here's some of the new jewellery collection I have been working on for Spring/Summer. If you haven't yet guessed I am completely obsessed with all things involving galaxies and the cosmos and I've wanted to reflect that in my arts and crafts for some time, so here we go, enjoy :)

They are all available to purchase here and they all arrive with free gift packaging!

Tenerife!

Hola!

Lots of things have been happening since my last blog post, including a new range of jewellery (*hint* out of this worldliness *hint*) which will be coming your way very soon :), but I have also just got back from a lovely holiday in the Canary Island Tenerife!

Which was full of sunshine, volcanic goodness and a cute little carnival all about a paper-mache Sardine! I won't deny, the event was rather strange but fun none the less!

If you are interested in reading up more on the history of the Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife then visit this wiki link :)

For now I leave you with some photos taken on my iPhone (left DSLR at home :( )

Mount Teide from plane 

View from hotel balcony

View again at sunset

Sardine thing

African Grey parrot (aka Bert)

Mother's Day Special Offer on Portraits!

Mother's Day is getting closer, and I am doing a special offer on all A5 watercolour portraits, for the price of only £40 including postage! The last order dates for these are the 23rd March to get yours in time for Mummy day :)

Remember these can be of a pet, person or house :)

Please contact me if interested, or you can purchase straight from my shop 

Graphite and charcoal portrait of my Nana :)

Sorry for the absence again, I am so sorry! *slaps wrist*

But my life has taken a few changes recently and finally things are getting back on track :) Yayyyy

So here's one of the artworks I finished at the end of last year, it was created in ordinary shop bought graphite pencils and some Faber Castell charcoal to deepen the shadows and contrast. It is a portrait of my late Nana as a gift for my Mum for Christmas, and as you can see from the photos, my reference pic was pretty small and crumpled so I'm hoping I did a good enough job :)