HAI!

Hooray for HAI! (Hire an Illustrator), I've got my little portfolio up on there site. Hopefully it'll catch some eyes.



To see the HAI! homepage click here.

To see my page on HAI! click here.

Society

I've just joined Society 6, where my work will be available to buy as prints online. View my page here

Leem

Another recent Portrait commission.
Just Black to Grey Watercolour and the white of the paper.

Baby faces are hard work.

Hands

Two recent hand heavy images for the Epoch Times UK.
Both for the Poetry Analysis column.



'I snatched the sun's eternal ray', from John Clare's 'A Vision'.
Published Today!



'Thy trivial harp will never please',
from Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'Merlin'.
Published a few weeks ago.

Recent reading - Concrete - it's good!

Lead

Here's a look at a piece currently in progress.

Here's some experimentation.





Hopefully the two will come together.



This weeks listenings = Pixel Mixel by BitBasic (Suffolk lad originally!)

More

More marriages.

Recent Portrait commission. I hope they liked it, I know them not.

Currently listening to - Song for Dan Treacy, MGMT.

Bass

Wedding Invitation front-piece for good friends Rob and Nina.



This American Gothic based sketch was made in response to the initial ideas Rob and I discussed, obviously much changed as the project progressed.

My thanks to the happy couple for being rad clients and taking a whole bundle of reference photos for me.

Visit This Business Is Closed to hear Robs Bass skills (I think Nina has some cupcakes blogged somewhere too??).

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Everything Illustration has slowed down a bit for me recently. I'm taking a little break to get things back on track, gradually.

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I've recently posted up a new set of photos on my Flickr page

The pics are from an ongoing side project, documenting sights I want to keep.

Light, Geometry, Shapes, Angles and the Weather. All from within my House.

Erin

Erin O'Connor

Latest Portfolio piece, drawn with reference to photos kindly donated from Paparazzo chief Simon Gross.



Looking forward to this!! - MachoTailDrop

Cherry

The awesome fantastic shop Cherry Cherry are now stocking some prints of mine.



I recommend you go take a look at all the wonders in store - Lower Goat Lane, Norwich.



Only just found! - Midlake 'The Courage of others'

Blok

A swatch of sketchbook bits.









Thoroughly enjoying/over listening - Field Music

Astro

Latest piece for the Epoch Times UK print edition, published 30/03/10.

A Reading of 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' by Walt Whitman

Excerpt
"When I heard the learn'd astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them...."

This piece came out looking slightly cartoony, which I was a bit uncomfortable with at first. I decided not to change it though, it just seems to work fine overall :)



In hope of making the computer work part of my Illustrating more efficient I purchased myself a Wacom graphics Tablet this week!
After a slow start it's proving to be a worthwhile buy. Because it's a new tool to get used to and is rather unfamiliar I'm finding myself concentrating a lot more, which I like.



I really shouldn't leave it until 1am to create a blog post, it took me ages to sting all these words together!

P.S. - This flick is soo good, you should SQUIRREL!!....... you should watch it.

Gaga

Musical friend Iain Lowery has an ongoing album project.
I donated a little piece for one of his tracks, all about his last much loved Cat Colin (R.I.P).

Read here
Listen here

Moment

Epoch Times Poetry analysis piece, from about four weeks ago!
Left unblogged while I've tried to colour it successfully, and failed so far.

A Reading of 'There is a Moment' by William Blake

There is a Moment

There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find
Nor can his Watch Fiends find it, but the Industrious find
This Moment & it multiply, & when it once is found
It Renovates every Moment of the Day if rightly placed

The Epoch Times Newspaper continually uses its independent voice to report on the unlawful persecution of Falun Gong Meditation in China, an issue that may well be kept quiet otherwise.
I thought I'd use the image of Falun Gong Meditation to illustrate this poems moral advice.


P.S. Before me lies a huge dilemma.
Here or Here this summer?

Robin

Thanks to everyone who made a suggestion for me last week. I've decided which pic to enter now, more on that in future posts.



I have plenty of ongoing work at the moment so will post things as and when I can. Stay tuned.