These wildflower drawings were inspired by one of my walks along the canal near where I live. The weather has been so gorgeous lately and the all the different wildflowers looked so pretty in the sunshine. I decided to pick some of my favourite ones and draw them when I got home.
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Today I was working on a Tower Bridge drawing and it got me thinking about when I first saw it. For those of you who don’t know, I wasn’t born in the UK. I grew up in South Africa but moved to London about 20 years ago (yep, I’m that old!) The UK felt like home almost as soon as I arrived though and I love it here. Continue reading Tower Bridge drawing
What am I – an illustrator, artist, maker or doodler? There’s a podcast I often listen to that interviews people who sell what they make on Etsy. It’s called Etsy Conversations and one of the questions the host Ijeoma often asks her guests is how they describe themselves – as an artist, a maker or a crafter. It’s a question I love to hear the various answers to, but it’s one I feel quite uncomfortable answering myself.
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Since I first started doing the custom portraits of stick figure couples for Valentine’s Day, I’ve expanded my range of personalised drawings a bit, so I thought I’d showcase some of the stuff I’ve done. I’ve now done a range of different combinations, from single figures to couples and up to five people. I’ve been doing them both as cards and as prints to be framed. Take a look below.
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Some interesting facts about greeting cards… Did you know that in the UK we spend an estimated £1 billion on greeting cards annually? The average person apparently sends around 55 cards per year. I know quite a few people don’t send any, so some people out there must be sending huge numbers of cards to get that average up so high! In the US they buy around 6.5 billion greeting cards per year, amounting to about $7 billion.
