Clip Art Sets

I have been very busy lately, trying to make some clip art sets to add to my Etsy shop (after noticing that there wasn't actually that much quality Scottish clipart available on the site). I am also in the process of creating a Japanese monster set. More to follow soon!

Illustration Friday- Village- Cruden Bay

Sort of a quickish one (that ended up taking longer than I'd hoped....) Cruden Bay is a small village in Aberdeenshire (just south of Peterhead), a fishing village... so I drew a crab in the centre? I think that it added more of a contrast in colour to the image, but Cruden Bay is also famous (*cough*) for its golf, and being the place that inspired Bram Stoker to write Dracula (even though it was set in the good old Yorkshire town of Whitby)- so there you have it! Ink, texture, colour.

Two for Joy Greetings Card

So this is one of three magpie cards that I'm designing. I want to complete it with "three for a girl",  and "four for a boy" as 'expecting'/ 'new baby' cards, although I guess this one could be for anything. I had myself a little debate with my boyfriend who, APPARENTLY, hadn't heard of the superstition before he met me, and so, said that 'they wouldn't get it up here' because 'it's an English thing' tufffffft.

Well, he's WRONG because just about every Scottish person that I've asked has told me, not only that they'd heard of it, but that it's very common up here too. So I win another one.

 Although this is just about done, I am still considering making the eyes a tad lighter to show up against those black feathers.

Wee Scottish Thistle

Postcard/ greetings card that I have created for my catalogue. At the moment I'm more tempted to use it as a post card. We'll just see
This postcard is now available at here for £1.50

Scottea time!

Another little greetings card done! I'm going to need help selecting which ones to get  printed for the trade/ craft fair.

Scotland tote

So I've been chipping away these past few weeks. Even though I'm sure that I've been working hard, I never seem to get as much done as I'd like to do, and I'm running a little low on money. Being the stubbon little girl that I am, I know that I want to work for myself, (and I've always preferred cats to people anyway...) so I'm going to start doing craft fairs and try to get some more business for my Etsy.

 A lovely craft fair organiser has offered me a free table, so, come next month (I'm still waiting on funding to order stock) I will be (assuming my stock arrives in time) doing one, either in Buchanan Galleries, or the Thistle shopping centre in Stirling. Watch this space! You can purchase the tote here

Thistle, Berry and Heather Pattern

So these past couple of days I've been working on some new pattern ideas- this being one of them. I hope to get at least one more done by the time I have my Cultural Enterprise meeting this week, but everything takes so much time! I am hoping to secure funding so that I can get my patterns and designs printed in bulk and start trying to distribute them.

 I am quite happy with how this one turned out, I think it'll make a nice little mug :-) and I'm hoping the little shops that I'm targeting agree! If that fails, I always have Etsy... Wish me luck!

Highland Cow

Finished highland cow portrait; I think that this one was Lady Alma. If memory serves, they named her after a character from Downtown Abby. If you need a fun (and FREE) day out, take a trip to Pollock park and watch them wash a cow.

I've been a busy person

I've sent my illustrated dummy off to publishers in the vague hope that they'll accept it, in the mean time I'm strapped for money and dreading council tax. Here are some mini Scottish cards that I made, HOPING to sell them in a local sweet shop.

Scandinavian Scotty

Ok, I know it's a Westie, but I thought I'd give into the punch-line- eeeeehh... ehhhhhh... ehhhhh? No. Ok. Let's move on. This illustration was a response to an article that the Guardian did on how Scotland relates to its Scandinavian neighbours. A bit literal, I know, but I am really really tired.

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