Hand Lettering

Something I don't post about much on here is hand lettering. It has always been a love of mine and it mainly ventures out now when I'm writing a thank you on an order or addressing an envelope or label to post parcels. 

However, recently I've been playing about with it a bit more in the hope of developing new products and run some workshops on this. 

I had great fun doing this piece:

and even filmed the whole process to put on Instagram TV... sadly the file won't upload and so, despite it being filmed in portrait rather than landscape, I've popped it on YouTube - you can watch it here if you fancy: 

Temporary tattoos- flowers, bee and ladybird

The Temporary Tattoos are really fun to play about with. I can never resist making a little scene with a mixture of the sheets - a bee visiting a flower, and a ladybird walking by on this one.

Summer sketching

Here are a few of the summer sketches from the sketchbook. Mainly from June (which seems quite a long time away now!)

Seashore studies

One of the only things that Shropshire doesn't have is a beach (the largest land-locked county in England) and so I don't visit very often. Last time I was there I selected some shells to study to build a seashore collection - here is the start, the razor shells and mussel shells.