Entertaining Etiquette

'The Debrett’s Guide to Entertaining Etiquette' is brimming with the illustrative work of Kavel Rafferty. And now available to buy, this book is hard to resist purchasing because of the beauty of Kavel's drawing. Karen Wilks, designer of the book says "Working with Kavel was an absolute pleasure, with over 60 illustrations in the book we worked in batches. Kavel understood exactly what we were trying to achieve and was very accommodating and all the deadlines were met on time. The day each batch arrived was a day I really looked forward to, it was like unwrapping presents, every one was a gem and her compositions and colour palette worked perfectly. Kavel brings warmth and humour to all her work combining her painting and photoshop skills beautifully with a small nod towards her interest in the 50’s and 60’s. I very much hope we have a chance to work together again soon."

Duncan Beedie at Scrapbook Live

This fine collection of prints by Duncan Beedie will hang very soon at The Griffin Gallery for our much anticipated Scrapbook Live Event. Follow the event on Twitter #ScrapbookLive.
The countdown begins!

Ruth Rowland at the Scrapbook Live Event

Next Thursday 9th May sees Ruth Rowland showing work at the Scrapbook Live Event, Griffin Gallery, London, organised by ourselves! Ruth says " I have my pens, brushes and inks primed for some pretty wild and loose demonstrating. Alongside the calligraphic work, I'll be showing some 3D letters created especially for the event, combining type with my own hand lettering in a variety of media. It promises to be an exciting evening with illustrators Miss Led, Jacqueline Bissett, Sarah Beetson and Gail Armstrong all demonstrating alongside me. In total, twenty one artists will be showing work and the evening will be hosted by journalist and writer Garrick Webster with sounds by DJ Dirty Freud." You can follow the event live on twitter at #ScrapbookLive.

Sparkling Jewels

To brighten your day take a look at Daria Jabenko's latest editorial piece for Mann's Jewellers Magazine. The cover illustration is for their for Spring/Summer edition; a "beautiful lady wearing an abundance of flowers and gold jewellery with diamond sparkles."

Culture Services

Using his amazing sense of colour and design Ian Murray creates these two spreads for French editorial client; Culture Services.  Ian says "The job was to enliven a feature on The Public Sectors' use of a range of communication tools such as TV, radio, and social media."

DinoZoo 2

Andy Council has been working on a large scale project with Bristol Zoo to promote the return of DinoZoo, a host of 12 life-like animatronic dinosaurs taking up residence at the attraction. Over the last few weeks, Andy has attracted crowds at local shopping centres around Bristol, who have all eagerly looked on as he creates dinosaur masterpieces using only a spray can, a 20ft by 10ft board and his imagination. Andy has also been visiting schools in Bristol and South Wales to get an insight into the young pupils' local community and buildings, through their drawings and ideas. From this material, he has created a host of dinosaur illustrations, whose bodies are comprised of various landmarks relevant to the school’s area. Each dinosaur illustration is displayed within the Bristol Zoo grounds and is there for all to see as of the DinoZoo2 launch last month. Andy said, “My work involves dinosaurs and Bristol landmarks, so the DinoZoo project at Bristol Zoo Gardens is a perfect fit for me. I enjoy involving the local community, both the people and places!”

DinoZoo2 will be open every day until Sunday September 8 2013, and is free with Zoo admission. It will give visitors the chance to get up-close to this amazing new breed of dinosaurs and learn even more about their incredible characteristics.

Miss Led at the Saatchi Gallery

Miss Led with the model

detail

Last week's Live Painting event in the Basement area of the Book Club has culminated in a 'fantastic showcase' at the Saatchi Gallery this week. Miss Led took part in the event; organised by Subism Collective and Liquitex Artist Materials to produce 'Life Shrinks and Expands in Proportion to Ones Courage', painted in acrylic on canvas and sized at 1 x 1.5 metres. Miss Led says "It was amazing. Such an opportunity. And such an accolade to have work at the Saatchi."

Lucia the Shoe Illustrator

After the success of Jacqueline Bissett at the London Selfridges store, it was time for Lucia Emanuela Curzi  to become 'Shoe Illustrator' at stores in Manchester and Birmingham. Lucia says of her experience "... I was live painting at Selfridges in Manchester and painted about 10 shoes, 7 or 8 boxes (or maybe more, I was so busy that (I) couldn't count them!). From 11am to 4.30pm there were so many enthusiastic people that had been in a queue to have their shoes and boxes painted. A couple also asked to paint the soles of their Kurt Geiger' Wedding Shoes and in the previous week I painted a girl's shoe for the prom night." 

This was certainly a fun experience very well suited to Lucia's spontaneous drawing style.

Elliott Barnes

This full body portrait of architect Elliott Barnes has been drawn by Richard Phipps. Currently being used on the architect's website, Richard has used his talents as both portrait artist and pen and ink master to create this wonderful piece.

Love is in The Air

To be able to design and illustrate an invitation for your own wedding is a marvellous thing, and exactly what Jessica Townsend has done. This peach of an image full of nature and happiness invites some lucky guests to the couple's big day. Congratulations Jessica and Paul!

More Bluewater for Hannah

Representing Bluewater Shopping Centre for the rest of the year is Hannah Davies with this zesty banner. Take a look at their Facebook page.

Elephant Parade Tour

Fresh talent with us, Victoria Scott has had the good news that her Elephant Parade 2013 design has been selected as part of the upcoming tour. Victoria will be one of the artists given a model of a baby elephant to paint with her design, which will then be exhibited in London before a year long tour to cities and towns all over the UK. Victoria says "My design " An unforgettable journey" which tells the story of the elephants journey will be auctioned off in Aid of the Asian Elephant Foundation".