Saturday 24 May 2014

This is how my brain works.

So, this is what happened in my brain: 
I was looking at this picture of Gaudi's cathedral.


And I was thinking how much I'd like my watercolour illustrations to glow as beautifuly as the stained glass.
I saw this image by Emma Harrison:


The colours in this illustration glow because of the contrast not only in tone but also vibrancy. I thought this would be good to try myself.
I'm also loving the work of Kate Baylay at the moment whose fabulously stylised work reminds me of Kay Nielsen.



And when I put it all together, it looked like this:



Saturday 17 May 2014

Inspired

You may have gathered from my last post that I went to Barcelona! It's been a dream of mine for....well, a very long time and so stepping outside the airport into the enveloping warmth and sunshine with a veiw of palm trees and the Pyrenees in the hazy-blue-purple distance was a little surreal. However ordering my first glass of freshly squeezed orange juice in barely formed Spanish on the pavement outside a little cafe brought me back down to earth. The rest was a blur of dusty streets, cerulean skys, mountain cable-cars, midnight tapas, Picasso and dancing in our apartment with the shutters flung wide. For me the most awesome moment was entering La Sagrada Familia; Gaudi's imaginarium. Seeing the completed inside was like realising that the universe, in theory, never ends (like, never, ever, ends!).......it's just mind-blowing!!! I cannot attempt to describe it here because words won't do it, or my feelings, adequate justice so here are a few pictures.





Do you know the feeling when you experience something so incredible that every molecule of your being starts to buzz and your heart over-spills? That's something like what I felt as I soaked up the light and colours and scale and atmosphere. I nearly cried for the aching beauty of it.


Sunday 11 May 2014

I made a skirt and wore it around Barcelona!

It's been a whole month since I last posted!! so here's a picture of me in a skirt I made and then took to Barcelona with me to wear in the SUNSHINE! Eeerrrrryesssss, I am definitely showing off that I made myself a skirt (hemhem, without a pattern....just saying) and most decidedly putting my illustration skills to good use ;)