juvenile jackdaw (new nib)

by the sea

A couple of illustrations for a commission that I'm working on at the moment.

crocosawrus

Deoch an' Doris

Herring Gull finds something interesting in a bin

The Writing Room

New site just launched - for literary agent Maggie McKernan's consultancy The Writing Room.  Featuring llustrations and hand drawn type from this stable!  We did the site design and build too.

Scots Pine

2010, digital, illustration, pen, pinus sylvestris, scots pine

pauly

Top Table

Books

for a girl (grill?) who likes to BBQ

Nothing given away

The pipes of Rastafari

These are components of an html e-vite run off a database. Each invite was personalised, and had online rsvp.

Archive: from approx 100 years ago

For writer Alice Maddicott's site . Censer/Chandelier/City.

Alice Maddicott is also here (blog) and here (site From The Den, illustration: Alice Stevenson).

n.b. update - alice's site has come down for a rebuild; the censer/chandelier/city will be re-used!

Say goodbye to miss accordion's roaring 20s

Pre arrival of new wonder machine. Had to keep it simple. In contrast to the party. Bar sign From The Den too.

Archive: tropicéilidhia

Poster from 2006, for favourite Straight From The Den client Miss Accordion 2009. Incidentally I used Freehand for this. I still think it might be better than Illustrator for drawing the shame the shame.

Archive: night of the narwhal

Party invite from 2005. Below: another draft. Not sure that I picked the right one! The rejected more accurately conveys the mood of the evening. Top: one of first forays into Freehand...see post above. Who knows what OS/memory. My memory is of painful rendering.

Minimialism in tilt

Just answered a question from Elizabeth about the minimalism poster. Thought i'd expand on it here too...

The textures are derived from Lewisian Gneiss, which is found in the north of Scotland and named for the Isle of Lewis. The rock is 3000 million years old - the most aged in Britain and amongst the oldest in Europe.

The architect Adolf Loos used highly veined marble in some of his buildings; perhaps surprising in light of his essay 'Ornament and Crime'. However his relationship with surface and material is less than simple. It is dislocated further by contemporary taste.

I was pointed in the direction of the Loos designed mausoleum for Dvorak by Joseph Masheck, and used it in the poster for his lecture 'Adolf Loos and Minimalism'. But re-made in Scottish rock.

Minimialism innit

Big blinking mountain