Paper Sculpture, naturally!

Gail Armstrong's fantastic man-in-a-boat has won a place at the Images 36 Best of British Illustration exhibition at Somerset House this October. And as one of the activities planned to accompany the exhibition, Gail will be doing a workshop where visitors can manipulate some paper themselves under Gail's experienced tuition.

"Paper sculpture is the art of cutting, gluing, folding, embossing and manipulating paper to create three dimensional or relief images. This workshop aims to cover these basic techniques to enable participants to create their own individual paper sculptures.

We will work on a theme of nature, looking at how plants and insects might be reinterpreted in paper. Whilst some reference and white paper will be supplied, I would encourage those attending to bring their own pictures of insects or plants to inspire them. If people wish to bring their own papers to work with (wallpaper samples, coloured paper, wrapping paper, etc) pieces sized between A4 and A3 are generally adequate"

The workshop will take place at Somerset House at 6pm on 18th October, for more information go to the Somerset House website.

Tie Rack

 

 

In stores now, these wonderful creations in line have been produced by Jacqueline Bissett for Tie Rack. It's an ongoing campaign for the Tie Rack windows and has seen Jacqueline already produce 20 line and wash illustrations of men and women. Accessories have then been superimposed on the characters and feature 2m high in their windows throughout the UK aswell as the Tie Rack website.

The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase

This masterpiece drawn by Rohan Eason appears on the front cover of the childrens' classic 'The Wolves of Willoughby Chase'. Published by Vintage, Rohan has also illustrated the sequel 'Black Hearts in Battersea' due out this month. He says "...the last illustrator to do them was one of my favourites, Edward Gorey, so I was very excited to be given the chance to do the new versions."

See No Evil

Andy Council recently took part in See No Evil in Bristol, the UK’s most ambitious and largest permanent street art project.  Council produced this large scale 'Bristol Chicken' mural alongside some of the world's biggest names in Street Art.  To help promote the event Council and four other Bristol artists were asked to do their own version of the Bristol Post's Masthead.  In his unique style the Masthead incorporates 'The Post', Bristol and a dinosaur... all in one!

The special editions of The Post could be set to become collectors editions in years to come.