trees

Oh, happy days...

This week's challenge and one of my favourite themes... tree!

life orientation

I've been working with collages quite a lot the last couple of years, mostly for educational illustrations and covers. This is the largest one I did, for the interior of a Life Orientation book, the concept was to have 4 illustrations that could fit into one greater whole. 

So this is in fact the entire piece, if you chop it up into quarters each would have been a separate entity in the printed book (though the bottom pieces were rotated to look "upright") . 

The subject lends itself very well to the medium and I was able to quite literally throw the kitchen sink in there!

photo-washes

Aloha!
There’s a brand new page on my site collecting some of my photowash experiments...

...and that’s just a taste of what you’ll find ;)

New Year!

Welcome back (mostly to me, feels like I've been away, marooned on some far off, exotic planet) 

To kick off 2011, here are some… illustrations? photos? … 

I'm not really sure.

I did these to give as gifts to my family; made from photos I took in Mozambique, Zambia, Malasia and France - I combined these with ink and watercolour washes I've been collecting.

The idea came when I was doing experiments with trees, I find trees are great to explore techniques with, I'm curious to see what fruits these experiments will bear in the long term...