if you’re planning to get any gifts from the Etsy store Made by Mixy, please don’t leave it to the last minute, the postal elves are scurrying as fast as they can 😉
Dear Santa,
if you’re planning to get any gifts from the Etsy store Made by Mixy, please don’t leave it to the last minute, the postal elves are scurrying as fast as they can 😉
For shopping on behalf of folks from any of these places, these are the last chance mailing dates from the UK:
Monday, December 9 for Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Far and Middle East Wednesday, December 11 for Eastern Europe Thursday, December 12 for Australia and New Zealand Saturday, December 14 for Canada and USA Monday, December 16 for most of Europe Wednesday, December 18 for UK & Ireland
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I had this little sketchbook and just a few colors. As I noticed the repeating patterns around me I began to play, when I got home I continued to fill up this little book with more variations.
I explored a similar idea before, but now I want to carry it on further – with simpler forms – maybe a circle or a square – maybe in just one color – just to see what’s possible.
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My Imaginary Friends & Curious Creatures Zine is on sale now in my Etsy store. If you reserved a copy ahead of time, there is one set aside ready for you to order.
If you reserved a copy ahead of time, there is one set aside ready for you to order.
It’s a limited edition. There are only FIFTY copies in the whole world, once these are gone there won’t be any more. The first 10 copies are already on their way to their new homes – so don’t miss out! 😉
If you haven’t already seen it, here’s what the zine looks like………..
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You’ll get a confirmation email when you sign up (check you junk mail folder – cos sometimes the good stuff gets swept away by mistake). I’ll pop into your inbox about once a month with news on what I’m up to in my colourful little corner of the universe and what’s been inspiring me.
This is a limited edition run of just 50 copies, all will be numbered and signed. I’m giving away the first FIVE copies in a prize draw – open to all the lovely folks who receive my newsletter.
If you follow my social media doings you might have seen a post or two about this already…
My first Zine: front cover.
Out of nowhere, I was struck by the desire to publish a zine: An illustrated world inhabited by the bizarre and curious folk who have been popping up amid my art journal doodles.
I spent the following weeks with these ideas marinading in my imagination, finally arriving at this:
Imaginary Friends & Curious Creatures (Vol 1) ON SALE from 1 December 2019
Zine Details!
This is a limited edition run of just 50 copies, all numbered and signed, and I anticipate this is the first in a series (cos I’ve got a head FULL of ideas for this!)
It’s A6 size (a wee smidge under 4×6 inches).
Eight pages of digitally collaged dreamscapes, printed on 170 gsm recycled paper.
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Do you notice the patterns around you? once you start to look you can notice them everywhere.
A few years ago I took an art class where we focused on grid patterns. Beginning with one grid pattern we developed it in different media in a sketchbook.
I started out with this photo of palm leaves in front of the grid pattern of window panes.
grids within grids – patterns within patterns.
Once you begin exploring an idea like this it’s amazing how many iterations appear.
While I was on holiday last month I accidentally found myself repeating this idea, but this time with the patterns I kept finding in the rocks and stone buildings.
The more I looked I saw similar shapes in other places, variations in this theme were everywhere. Even the shadows and light presented the patterns again in another ephemeral layer.
Now I’m back home I’m filling the rest of the book with variations on this theme.
Catch my latest newsletter to see a flip through of this work in progress sketchbook, and I’ll tell you more about these ideas.
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3 weeks is a long time (too long) to be away from my studio, so I bundled up some necessaries for the trip and took a bit of time every morning to move some color about.
The first time I visited Cyprus was almost 20 years ago, and as I stepped off the plane, it felt like I’d come home. Something feels really familiar in the smell of hot dusty air. There were sounds and senses that did not seem at all foreign despite being 2000 miles from the place I’ve lived all my life.
Over the years I’ve been back many times, and never lost this home from home feeling.This year I wangled a way to spend 3 weeks here, and had time to really soak myself into the surroundings: the rich vivid colours & heady scents of bougainvillea & jasmine – the sand between my toes – luxuriating like the the cats that roam and loll around every corner.
But 3 weeks is a long time away from my studio routines, so I bundled up some necessaries for the trip and took a bit of time every morning to move some color about.
These are colors I chose to take (mostly Daniel Smith’s watercolors – decanted into half pans in a little tin box).
I second guessed my choice after I swatched them out here – why so many colors so similar? but as it turned out they were just what I needed, vivid blues & magentas amid the warm stony earth tones..
I’m not much of a landscape painter – my camera is for catching actual views – leaving my sketchbook as the place for playing with ideas.
The ideas I found myself playing with was the similarities and echoing patterns, repeating undulations, the ripples in the water with the curve of the waves, the textures in rocks and stones, the shifting shapes of shadows in the early autumn breeze. Mixing and remixing, folding ideas together into an endless series of permutations.
Re-entry
I feel I’m like returning a bit at a time after a long trip away – this time it took almost a week to really gather myself together into one place. What eased the transition was the pages in this book that overlapped the geography. The patterns of the travels merged into the patterns of usual daily doings & the edges between the two worlds blurred.
Catch this month’s newsletter to see a flip through of these pages to find out where this little collection of images leads next!
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Inks dripped in water, bubble wrap, Posca paint pens, Sakura gellyroll pens. Good times. This is the next in the series from my 100 day project time lapse comps.
25% off everything in my pre-holiday sale – shop closed for one month from 16 Sept
Before I go on holiday at the end of this month I’ll be closing up my Etsy store. It will be closed from 16 September for one month.
So if you’re planning gifts for the holidays and like to start shopping early – now is your chance – I’m having a pre-holiday sale with 25% off everything!!
Now I’m off to find my flip-flops and begin the wind down!! 🙂
My 100 day project time lapse compilations are growing (you can check out the others over here)
The pages in this book got layered over again and again – some began many months earlier – and then were then re-imagined many times in the 100 days.
This page began where I’d written the manifesto for the previous year’s 100 day project. An Actual Manifesto! Lawks!!
Never before had I felt called to write myself such a formal plan, but one morning last year I woke up from a vivid dream with an irresistible compulsion. Then a little over a year later I painted over it.
Watch how morphed over the 100 days here –
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