Artist Book, Etsy Shop, Children's Books, Cafe Royal...

Sorry I haven't been on in so long, been very busy!

Anyway, first to tell you about is the Manchester Book Fair. Here are some pictures of it, taken by Chiu Man (from www.artistsbookcollective.blogspot.com):

Wirral Metropolitan College- some beautiful work (as you can see!).

Cafe Royal- will mention again later!

Borbonesa- Really loved the typography going on here!

It was amazing! There were so many different types of work there that I felt really inspired. I also sold 6 copies of my book, pictured below. I ended up screen printing it in 2 colours on brown paper (which gave me a 3rd colour). I'm going to have another look at other ways to do it too, I feel that I've lost a lot of detail from my drawings doing it like this.

It's currently for sale/trade on Etsy too: www.starttoday89.etsy.com

I've started a new project at uni on children's books, in preparation for the Macmillan's Childrens Book competition. It's a VERY high standard and as a second year student I'm not sure I have what it takes yet, but I'm working really hard already and hopefully it'll pay off!

More info here: http://www.panmacmillan.com/About%20Us/displayPage.asp?PageTitle=Macmillan%20Prize

I also noticed on the Macmillan site there are exciting job vacancies for graduates so that's something for everyone to look at.

Cafe Royal again! Craig Atkinson is coming into uni next week to do a kind of workshop with us on zines, which I'm SO excited about! Take a look at the website, I think it's really interesting: http://www.caferoyal.org/

Here's an example of his work:

So keep your eyes peeled for my first zine! It's going to be about a week of my life...

Anyway sorry this was so long! Just had a lot to say...

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Back!

Phew, all moved into the new house in Birmingham, all settled in and we have internet etc... I've been moving house so I couldn't come online for a while- hence the lack of blog posts. I will keep up to date, I promise!

So anyway, I've finished the painting part of my Apricot Cat artist's book! :D Woo woo! I want to do the lettering so badly but I need a grey fineliner, and I can't find one that I like. I was going to order online but I'd prefer to try it before I buy it, so I'm gonna try and get one from uni tomorrow (first day back!). Anyway, here are the Apricot Cat pics:

I need to put the writing in but am struggling to fine a grey fineliner that I like, so once I've done that it'll be finished and I'll see about making it into an artist's book.

I've been doing a few other drawings which I've put on flickr and making a few bits to sell on Etsy, which can be found here:

flickr.com/photos/start_today/

shootemupclothing.etsy.com

I've been doing lots of animal drawings since I found the book below for only £2.99 at Waterstones, and it's got loads of animal pics in it!

(It's by Alice Tomsett and is usually £5.99)

Also on Flickr I found this really cool group called Free Art Friday, where people make free art and leave it lying around for people to pick up, in the street for example. I really wanna get doing some :) Do any of you guys do free art? I'd like to see it! You can find that group here. I think it's a really cool thing to do because it'd make my day to get some free art and I'm sure other people will appreciate it too.

Anyway, as ever I'd appreciate constructive criticism on any and all work, so let me know what you think!

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