Owls are in the Air

logo for Little Owl Urns

ad for Rockwood and Perry

Kathryn Rathke completes two beautiful owl commissions using her confident and stylish line.
Custom-designed urns maker 'Little Owl Urns' asked Kathryn to create a logo for the bottom of their ceramic and wooden pots; made for beloved pets. The second was for the wine merchant Rookwood and Perry in the Hudson River Valley to use as an advertisement for their shop. With the image of the nocturnal bird being used quite widely right now, Kathryn says "Owls are in the air!"

Bill animates Trans-Atlantic Tumnus

Bill Greenhead's latest whiteboard animation is a music video for Free Swim.
The group asked Bill to make a video for their latest rock track "Trans-Atlantic Tumnus", and of course Bill jumped at the opportunity. He says " The track gave me a chance to try out lots of new techniques in whiteboard art. I wanted to be able to place static objects and for them to spring into life. Lots of 3d animation with UFOs and robots. It's a fun track to animate." Watch the animation.

New Talent Alert: Kaitlin O'Connor

Brooklyn-based illustrator and graphic designer Kaitlin O'Connor's striking artworks have graced the pages of magazines on both sides of the pond, including Nylon, Lamono and Company. Kaitlin's portfolio...

Bob Robber and Dancing Jane

'Bob Robber and Dancing Jane'; a children's book illustrated by Bee Willey and written by Andrew Matthews is to stage as a ballet!

Produced by Clare Prenton,  the story now evolved as 'Shadow Thief' is a thrilling development of the original book about the dark souled Bob Robber who learns to dance and live in the light with help from Dancing Jane. Bee says "Both myself and Andrew were delighted at the clip with the lyrics we were sent by Clare's agent, and also by the twitter info around the rehearsals in Barnes, seemingly leading to a premiere in 2014 in Edinburgh! It is wonderful for a story like this to take off in a new context…"

Jo Rose's Scrapbook

Based in the New Forest, illustrator Jo Rose lets us glimpse into her magical creative world. See Jo's Scrapbook.

New Talent Alert: Natalia Sanabria

Check out the stunning, on trend portfolio of fashion and beauty illustrator Natalia Sanabria. Based in Costa Rica, Natalia has worked for Nylon Mexico and Capricho Magazine.

Curzi Draws Live for Warehouse

Lucia Emanuela Curzi spent a Saturday in November drawing portraits at a live Christmas painting event for the clothing brand Warehouse. Taking place at a Manchester store, here are a selection of Lucia's pieces, proudly shown by the sitters.

Zoot Style

illustration profiling a Zoot style suit

Elena Viltovskaia illustrates for Toronto based publication Worn.

The biannual magazine discusses the cultures, subcultures, histories, and personal stories of fashion,  Elena's commission was to provide art to go with a story 'focusing on the history of Zoot suits, Zoot movement and the cultural and socio-economic circumstances'. Her creations have been used on the inside pages and look pretty cool!