Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Kauto Star
a portrait for an upcoming charity auction aiming to raise
money to re-home and rehabilitate ex-racehorses.
Monday, 10 November 2014
Picasso in Paris - reworking
I decided to rework my Picasso in Paris poster today - the big beige expanses had been niggling at me for a while. Most commissions I finish and move on without a backwards glance, but with this one I kept hearing a little voice saying "perhaps just a little bit of confetti?".
Original poster:
(I think working on the collages has made me a bit more adventurous with colour and composition)
Art prints available from Society6 - click here.
Monday, 3 November 2014
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water - Alan Watts
My collage made using illustrations and photographs from the British Library's collection of public domain images is nearing its completion.
I worked through 300 pages of the collection (barely making a dent on it's total 10,212 pages) picking out any images which intrigued me. As I began to add images to the hexagons, I would make connections with other images, or find ways to manipulate and change them. Since nearly all of the images in the collection are black and white, I also added colour and adjusted the levels to suit my own purpose. Many of the images become visual metaphors, express feelings, or suggest part of a narrative.
The collage is A1-sized and comprised of 63 hexagons, inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' Library of Babel.
Saturday, 25 October 2014
Highland Cattle (from my location sketchbook)
Our new neighbours: a small herd of highland cattle have moved into the conservation area close to where we live, and I've been spending some time drawing them.
Monday, 13 October 2014
More collage close-ups
close-ups from a larger collage made with public domain material from the British Library
Saturday, 11 October 2014
Workspiration
I was interviewed about my illustration work by Workspiration: http://workspiration.org/emma-ridgway
Thursday, 9 October 2014
wraparound design:
Did you know beetles account for 25% of all lifeforms on earth? And they have been on the planet for nearly 300 million years? And there are around 350,000 known species of beetle?
Those are the three same facts that come up on every website about beetles. Little else appears to be known about them. What keeps them awake at night, which of their family members is their favourite, what slender tomes rest upon their tiny bookshelves, and exactly what prompted them to choose a herbivorous lifestyle...the psychology of our little exoskeletal friends forever remains a mystery to us. Only Kafka came close to understanding their tiny beetle minds, yet he too couldn't resist stamping on poor Gregor Samsa.
Ahem.
I've just added some new designs to my Society6 shop - (and if you click to use this promo code specifically designed for people who like beetles (http://bit.ly/1vQzkSA) you get free worldwide shipping until Sunday 12th October, wuhu!)
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