Excuse My French

Alyana Cazalet illustrates 'Excuse My French', published by Kyle Books. 

Originally commissioned for the front cover,  Alyana was then asked to make another 13 black and white drawings for the inside after much positive feedback from the Frankfurt Book Fair. Alyana says "(The) brief was to create humourous images at the opening of each chapter, providing visual intrepretation to some confusing (and amusing!) French and English idiomatic expressions." The book is out now.

Mortal Business

Richard Phipps creates fabulous spreads for France's 'Liberation Next'. The story entitled Mortal Business is set in the future where people with terminal illnesses sell their life insurances to make money. Richard's classic work looks wonderful in this popular magazine.

Wendy's Logo

Kathryn Rathke has been keeping a secret for over 3 years! But now with the unveiling of the new Wendy’s logo, she can finally reveal her part in the project.
Back in 2009 Kathryn was approached by Tesser to aid them in re-designing the Wendy's logo. She worked with them very closely; sketching, getting feedback and revising over a period of months. Tesser were very happy with the animation and expression that Kathryn was able to distil into a few elegant lines, and Kathryn was honoured to be a part of such an iconic job working with such a great design team.

Miss Led in Shoreditch to Saatchi

Next week - 18th April to be precise sees Miss Led doing one of the many things she does so amazingly well - LIVE PAINTING.  It's been 3 years since Miss Led's last live event, and next Thursday's will take place at The Book Club, 100-106 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4RH. The large canvas creation will then be exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery the following Tuesday 23rd April. For more info go to the Liquitex Facebook page.

Palmolive Pleasure

Barry Patterson works with Colgate Palmolive to produce these images for a European in-store campaign. With a brief to create a border of natural ingredients used in the Palmolive range of products, Barry triumphs with these wonderful frames giving both scent and colour.

Hunger

There was good news for Paul Holland recently when he was selected and then won 'HUNGER' Magazine's competition with this submission of Lisa-Marie Presley. The illustration competition has run for the last few publications for which there is a cash prize and the opportunity to illustrate from Rankin's celebrity photographs. Paul says "I will be in pretty good company as Von & Oriol Angrill Jorda have previously been selected winners and featured". Issue 4 which is just out, features Paul's commissioned illustrations of Derek Blasberg, Labrinth & Elle Macpherson.

Trunki's Paddlepaks

With Duncan Beedie's fine character animation talents, Trunki's ad for the new range of summer swimming/beach bags is now aired. Duncan was brought to the project as a house client for Aardman Animations and used Adobe Flash to create the character animation for the lobster, jellyfish, octopi and clown fish. The new 'Paddlepaks', shaped like underwater creatures are a fun new range from the popular brand Trunki, the ad can be seen here.

Tequila Mockingbird

Towards the end of last year Lauren Mortimer illustrated 'Tequila Mockingbird'; a cocktail book published by Running Press.  The book which contains recipes based on classic novels is now out and available to buy!

Lauren was commissioned to produce 40 full page illustrations, as well as the cover. She says "My job was to illustrate the recipes incorporating key themes from the book upon which it was based. I used only graphite, creating quite surreal images throughout; (Lord of the Mai Tai's, Charlie and the Chocolate Faketini, Gin Eyre are a few of the titles....), it was such a fun and great creative project for me...it also got a great review in the Evening Standard (news)paper.".

A Little Piece of Rohan

Exhibiting at The Fox Reformed until 5th May is Rohan Daniel Eason in 'A Little Piece of Me'; a collection of works showing at 'the only wine bar in Stoke Newington'. If you're local, take a look.

Love To Share

McCann Erickson Advertising have commissioned Gail Armstrong to create 10 images for Nestle's "Love to Share" campaign. The images, which focus on hands and bags of sweets,  are effective in design and clever in the way they reflect the title. Gail says "They are set against a single colour scene behind, which gives a sense of the location and atmosphere in which the different sweets might be shared. Everything in the images is made from paper - hands, bags, sweets, type - an entire world made of paper." You'll spot the first posters and point of sale pieces in selected London cinemas now.

Forest Love

Here's a sneak peek of a book project by Bee Willey;  Esmeralda the magic hare and another called Maximilian come together in a forest love story set at Christmas. Experimenting with medium, Bee says "I have just started using egg tempera and I love it". More to come soon!

Rosie in Country Life

A recent edition of Country Life Magazine saw a full page photo of Rosie Sanders at work on one of her enormous paintings. The feature, which talked of other botanical painters alongside Rosie, gave a short interview with our talented nature artist.

Meet Me in Paris

 

Take a peek at Daria Jabenko's utterly romantic animation 'Meet Me in Paris'. Completed as a personal project Daria uses her skills to evoke the feel typical of time spent in the city; "Picture yourself in a luxurious place in Paris, it's snowing outside... and your heart is filled with love and romance". WATCH IT NOW.

Diplom-Is

Diplom-Is, a Norwegian company celebrating the 60th anniversary of their original ice cream have released a special treat to mark the occasion. And commissioned by design and advertising agency Frank, Steinar Lund has created some illustrations for the product which are out in the market now. Steinar says "The white chocolate, blueberries and raspberries signify the colours of the national flag. Being Norwegian I was very pleased to do this job and hope to taste the product when I next visit Norway!" Steinar produced images of the Norwegian flag, splashes of cream & milk with white chocolate and berries and the ice cream cone itself, Anette Kirkeby of Frank says "... The client is very happy with the packaging, and the ice-cream is really tasty, so hopefully this will be a hit!"

Rosie's Etching

With the feel of a vintage postcard, this etching created by Rosie Sanders is a result of some time spent at a local workshop; hauntingly romantic, the black and white artwork is an interesting addition to Rosie's botanical studies.
Rosie is currently spending the month in Glasgow, soaking up the atmosphere whilst working at the Glasgow Print Studio and taking part in some woodcut workshops. We can't wait to see what she produces there!

Brick Lane Market at The Mall Galleries

Liam O'Farrell is currently exhibiting at The Royal Society of British Artists 296th RBA Annual Open Exhibition. Running from now until 23rd March, Liam's painting ‘Brick Lane Market’ has been selected and hanging at The Mall Galleries in London - ‘Exhibiting the best of contemporary representational painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing, sourced from member artists and open submission.'

Liam says "I am particularly pleased as I know the competition is very tough. Paintings aside the gallery is a lovely place to visit too, it has good coffee, great cake, and The Queen lives in the same street so do go along if you get the chance." Admission: £3.00, £2.50 Concessions. Free to FBA Friends, National Art Pass holders and under 18s.