Lomography

Today my good friend (and flatmate) Sophie held a workshop on lomography as part of a local incentive called 'Try This' to get people to show their skills and share their passions. I'm clueless when it comes to lomography, so it was awesome to learn what it was all about. We got to watch a presentation and eat lots of sweets, then make filters for our cameras/smart-phones using the wrappers! She also gave us disposable cameras to take away and play around with, so I plan to take a load of the beautiful surroundings where I work.

Anyway, here's some of the ones I took on my phone camera today. Oh and you should check out Sophie's blog here!

Wedding Owls

I'm stuck between my crappy old camera and my phone camera, so apologies for the terrible quality! 
Anyway, I painted a wedding card for a friend. Two newly-wed owls madly in love.

Also a few things I got up to this weekend. 

Forever Sun

May

The Bank Holiday weekend was lovely. Full of sunshine, friends, cake, cider, frisbee and pie. And I managed to record none of it apart from a minuscule amount of snapshots on my phone. So here they are...

I met my dad and sister for a quick bit of tea and cake in the newly opened vintage tearoom next door to my flat. It was AMAZING. Chocolate and strawberry is the best combination.

A giant daisy-chain me and my friend made. We draped it around a bench. Magical, non?

I also managed to get my hands on a few vintage bits and bobs, including this cute little mug and two decanters.

And finally, some terrible photos of an outfit, including a new skirt I picked up on Monday. About 30 seconds after these photos were taken, I decided to empty my bin and a GIANT spider crawled out. NO, just no.

Shirt - France (no recollection of what the shop was called)
Skirt - Miss Selfridge
Vest-top - New Look
Tights - M&S
Shoes - Peacocks
Necklace - The Curiousity Center

I hope everyone else had a wonderful weekend!

Beginnings

So I've finally kind of settled into the new flat, found myself a job, the boyfriend's moved back from Uni and life's looking pretty good at the moment.

The flat dates from the 1700's and I love how old and wonky everything is. It's situated right in the town centre and I love the view from my little third floor room.

Illustration work's been kind of hard to concentrate on at the moment, but here's a little sneak preview with what I'm working on...

I'm also lucky to be living with a talented bunch. Chris is an illustrator and you can find his illustrations at Everything is Fine, and Luke's a guitarist in the band Kill the Conversation. Click on the purple links and check them out!

Cheeky

I found a load these cheeky photographs in Dorchester Market. They're reproductions, but I've never seen anything like it. I love how tame they are in today's standards. Here's my favourites!

And here's a small sketch of one for my ever on-going project...

Dinosaur Parade

I was asked to design a flyer to send around to local schools advertising the Gigantasaurus workshops and parade as part of the Dorchester Festival.
I'm usually quite literal with my work, preferring to work from life and observations, so it was a bit of a challenge working in a different style!

'Meh' Work

Seeing as I'm posting up my favourite work, it seems only fair that I post up the developement work I'm not so keen on too...


Recently I bumped into a friend in a coffee shop, and he had with him a massive pack of felt-tips! Not wanting to be left out, I decided to join in on the felt-tip fun. I've never used them before...therefore this was the result...

Incase you couldn't tell, it's the back of a man in an awesome jumper.


A sketch I did on the train to London...

And some elderly folk blocking the path in Dorchester.

This is Dorchester town center on a busy Tuesday afternoon. Exciting, isn't it?

Catch-up

So recently my life has mostly revolved around sorting out my old room, catching up with old friends and job-hunting, but now everything's settled down a little I can start concentrating on my illustration again.


Firstly... a couple of weeks ago Harriet Alana sent me her zine, Brash. I mentioned her in my review of the Girl+Zines show, you should definately check her stuff out!

I also finally got around to finishing my 'Teenage Crush' zine, which is really just a collection of pretty famous people I liked as a teenager...

Also, my dad's rented out a room for his therapy practice, but it's mine to use as a studio for 3 or 4 days a week which is pretty lush! It's right in the middle of Dorchester with a swanky chair, massive desk, tea-making facilities and with a lovely rooftop view...all I need!