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!"

Lucia's Horoscopes

horoscopes lead page

how to deal with an ex and social media

German Fashion magazine 'Cover' commission Lucia Emanuela Curzi for several editorial illustrations.

Appearing in the January Issue, Lucia's artworks for their horoscopes delight the pages. She also tackles an article on how to deal with and move on from an ex-boyfriend if you are still connected via social media.  Featured on the contributors page too, Lucia certainly makes her mark on this edition!

Jacqueline Bissett is One of the Best!

A very proud Jacqueline Bissett  appeared on MSN's 'Our Favourite Fashion Illustrators' list last friday. And in the company of talents such as Holly Sharpe and Danny Roberts, you can imagine she's pretty pleased! Take a look.

Bill Wyman Logo

Ruth Rowland works on the new Bill Wyman logo for his official web site.
Ruth says "The development stage included a range of hand rendered styles, from handwriting akin to his own signature to this wilder version of his name using a dry brush to create a distressed, edgy mark. Combined with the designer's bold background and retro photo, the lettering makes a powerful impact on the music legend's homepage."

Live Portraiture for Frey Wille

One of the many portraits drawn by Miss Led

Two portraits drawn at the live event

Miss Led at work

Working with PR company Pink Umbrella, Miss Led is invited to draw live portraits at the InStyle Magazine launch event for the new Frey Wille products.
Miss Led used her great experience in this environment to create some fashion portraits of people at the launch. And working with new materials and at a larger size than usual, she says ..."the work was challenging but enjoyable. I met some lovely people who were extremely appreciative of having a free portrait".

Bissett Goes Live!

portraits at the Space NK event

Space NK event portraits

a drawing from the Warehouse event

friends hold their drawings at Warehouse

Live drawing expert Jacqueline Bissett draws at two fashion store events.
Taking place in October, the first was for Space NK at their Broadwick Street W1 branch. The event was for the launch of an amazing range of make up called "By Terry" (the make up artist who invented YSL's touche eclat).  Beauty editors from Elle, The Guardian, Top Sante, Psychologies magazines & known beauty bloggers were treated to a makeover then passed over to Jacqueline to illustrate. She says "I met some fantastic people and really talented make up artists and had a fabulous day drawing fabulous people!"
And last month, Jacqueline was invited to a Warehouse event at Cribbs Causeway in Bristol. After having a make-over, lucky customers were then given the Bissett treatment by having their 'new look' beautifully drawn on paper. Jacqueline says "I drew the public for a pre-xmas event and Warehouse staff of course! Had a great day and did about 15 illustrations over 8 hours!"

Food Poisoning

Liam O'Farrell illustrates an article on food poisoning for Business Jet Interiors International.
The key point of the piece was how easy it is to think that only low grade produce such as van burgers and greasy kebabs are the foods that carry harmful bacteria and viruses. Liam chose to illustrate a delicious plate of food placed next to a menu listing some dreadful food poisons, showing that good quality foods can also be harmful if prepared or stored badly. Liam says "It was an interesting project and for me this was a great opportunity to buy some pretty top nosh and get it all on expenses, which indeed I did...the initial brief called for oysters to be shown on the plate. I bought six and sketched up a few. The client soon abandoned them as they would not fit with the other foods chosen. 'Fantastic' I thought, so I promptly ate them. Three hours later I was brutally sick and spent the evening with my head in the loo. It reminded me of 'Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected' and much amusement was had by all at my expense. I didn’t miss the deadline though."
The article can be seen here.
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Article published by kind permission of Business Jet Interiors International, January 2014