So I have a little update to the postcard design I submitted last week. The husband arrived home on Friday with this brand spanking new, fully updated version of my illustration. Oh my days.
New wooden Postcard:
So here is the new postcard, made of very fine wood, with my drawing laser cut into the wood. I was quite happy with the original illustration but well this knocks the socks off that, as they say. Wow.
Original Postcard:
A little reminder.
Check out those leaves:
I hope the photos clearly show the depth and level of detail to the wood, the darker the tone the deeper the cut.
Station details:
I am very pleased, super pleased in fact. I would quite like one for myself actually.
The little ladies:
My daughters class have also been asked to submit their own postcards. We sat down with a few art books, and she was still insistent Van Gogh is her favourite, so this is her interpretation of her favourite painting, Sunflowers.
Flowery details:
She has also decided she wants to be Van Gogh when she grows up.
As stated before this postcard, along with the original and my daughters will be up for bids on February 7-8th, at Southfields Gallery, details on the poster.
Poster:
So what do you think of the new postcards, do you like them?
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So King Kwak and myself were asked to take part in a local art exhibition, run in conjunction with our daughters school. Lots of local artists and illustrators, alongside children from the school have each been sent a blank postcard to go wild upon, and all proceeds will go to the Princes Foundation for Children and the Arts.
My Creation:
This is my postcard, I illustrated the local tube station (hopefully you gathered that), which is slap bang in front of the gallery in which this will be displayed. It is a very pretty station and there is a nice village feel around here. Next is the collage and oil creation King Kwak created.
The misters:
The golden girl. A print of an oil painted background with newspaper collage animation. See anyone you recognise? He had a lot of fun making this, and has already started further collages.
The exhibition will be open from the 7-8th February at the Southfields Gallery, all details on the poster above, do pop along if you are local or happen to be passing.
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Hello and a Happy New year. King Kwak and myself currently have ourselves a mini Exhibition running until February, displaying a collection of work we have produced together as a joint Kwak collaboration. 'City Celebration' is the name of the collection and it is a growing series of illustrations portraying recognisable landmarks filled to the brim with celebration. Each locale is bursting with a mix of humour, fun, known faces and events, often alongside more controversial and political issues. An exploration of each areas brighter and sometimes darker sides. Look closely and see what you can spot?. The exhibition is held at a local food shop/ restaurant named Salt & Pepper, based at 177 Replingham Road in Southfields, Wandsworth, London (on the district line) and should you be in the hood do pop by as it really is a fantastic place, the food and drinks are all cooked on site by a lovely couple and its all rather lovely and delicious. There are lots of little crafty decoration/ play/ food bits for sale on site too, and they are absolutely brilliant with dogs and children... well worth a trip.
Collection:
Logo.
On the wall:
Upon the wall.
Window display:
A Southfields print is in the window, to hopefully entice all the locals in.
Unframed prints:
I whipped up a little print stand to hold all the unframed prints. It was a washing basket, who knew.
Badges and mirrors:
A selection of badges and mirrors with the Southfields illustration are available again for the locals. Southfields is the tube station for the Wimbledon tennis, All England lawn tennis and croquet club, hence why the packaging/ print colours are all based upon the tennis colours.
Salt & Pepper:
The shop/ restaurant.
First Sell:
Woop, woop.
And here are a few outtakes:
Lined up:
The night before.
Prints:
Unframed prints, all packaged up nice and professional, with the Fulham print on top. Ideal for any Chelsea FC fans.
Transportation:
Extremely sophisticated mode of transport, with the cutest assistant in town in tow.
Setting up:
With a little help from my assistant.
The prints:
This is the collection of prints available. Please check them out in detail upon my website here, under the City Celebration tab. If anyone is interested in purchasing a print, please contact me on: queenkwak@hotmail.co.uk
We are running a competition for the duration of the exhibition:
Alternatively feel free to leave your suggestion and email address in the comments below. Lots of luck.
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My first market is now done and dusted and I survived, whoop. I worked like a crazy girl this past couple of months but it was all very much worthwhile, I pretty much didn't sleep last week, not a wink on Thursday so the actual market day is bit of a blur but I had a super time, sold lots, met lots of new people and had a blast. So the following will be a bit of a photo dump, displaying the wares I carefully created for the event. I have also created a Christmas market folder upon my website, if you wish to see then please click here and should anyone be interested in any of my goods, then give me a shout at queenkwak@hotmail.co.uk. I am so pleased I did this as now I can and have started the cogs rolling to set up an on line shop, hoorah.
So the following were displayed alongside a VAST assortment of my personalised prints and artwork, all framed. I took A LOT of frames with me that day.
Framed cuckoo clock:
Illustrated Swiss stylee cuckoo clock. A blog may follow on how I made this beauty, I am rather loving it.
DIY Colour-in play library kit:
Role play kit for your little librarian, ready to be fully decorated/ personalised and comes complete with actual librarian date stamp and ink pad PLUS proper librarian edge of your nose reading glasses. Amazing. I wanted to be a librarian when I was little, can you tell?
Illustrated London street sign:
Any street you fancy name it.
...Here's two I did earlier.
Southfields illustration:
The days biggest seller. A very detailed print produced in collaboration with him indoors, my Mr King Kwak. It is a print of the locale, and the first in a series we have, a blog on which will follow soon.
Photo illustration:
This is a King Kwak special, turn your photos into illustrated artwork. That is me with the bunny ears, looking hot.
Dry wipe shopping list:
Another hit of the day, I sold out of these. Framed print complete with a dry wipe pen. Image available in blue, beige, grey and navy.
Tiara pocket mirrors:
Another good seller, I actually clapped when these arrived in the post.
Christmas colour-in temporary tattoos:
The week before the market I discovered a new world of printing papers, including temporary tattoo paper. This is the first I sampled and I imagine there will be a lot of fun coming up with the other papery discoveries. Oh and the tattoos can be coloured with make up and face paints.
Colour-in activity sheets:
Following on with the colour-in theme I made these sheets for the kiddos to do over the Christmas holidays. To the left a foldable personalised angel for on top of the tree and a mat for Santa's pie/ Rudolph's carrot. To the right a Christmas dinner set, four place settings to pop on top of your plates (before the food) and four napkin rings. I even packaged up and sold packs of Christmas sparkles to decorate such wares.
Garlands:
A bit of festive cheer, I am rather fond of the fairy light one.
Gift tags:
A bit more festiveness. I imagined these as dual purpose, tags or decorations. I think the robins upon a Christmas tree would look rather lovely, may do it myself actually and post pics at a later date.
A few more tags:
A slightly classier gift tag, would also look nice with cream paper wrap/ DIY decorated wallpaper lining paper.
Giant mistletoe:
Pucker up. Double sided hanging illustrated mistletoe.
Cake toppers:
Large banner topper for your Christmas cake and holly toppers for your cupcakes.
Individual prints:
And a whole host of illustrations were framed or sold at full size and postcard size ready for framing.
Market stall:
Shocking photos of the stall I realise, these were very quickly taken with my phone just as the market opened and people came in. Rubbish light but hope you get the idea.
And that's that. So what do you think? I hope you like it all and as I said before if you are interested in any of my goods please do drop me an email at queenkwak@hotmail.co.uk. Right I had better get cracking I now have a 5 years olds royal themed birthday party to organise.
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Well hello there, it has been so long, sorry about that. I have been a very busy bee of late, work wise, non stop but absolutely loving it. I was commissioned to produce a book illustration, but alas I am not actually allowed to show it yet, boo... very exciting though. I also entered the AOI Serco prize illustration competition 2014, I worked super hard on my entry and am now awaiting for the judges to announce the top 50. I am not sure if I am allowed to show that so will hold back for now. So anyhow this is fun, lots of work I cannot show but what I can show, and what I have been working super incredibly crazy for is in exactly one week and one day and three hours from now, I shall be hosting my first ever Queen Kwak market stall!!!!!!! Yipeee.... exciting times. I am having so much fun, drawing and making stuff, admittedly I am running around in a slight panic at all times and have approximately a trillion ideas, but alas the time is ticking. Once the market is finished I hope to pop all the goodies up for sell upon my Etsy shop, which really is now coming very soon... Hoorah.
So here is a little snippet of what I will have on offer, to be fair these aren't my finest items, more a selection of what was already printed, I will update with the full set of goodies soon. So if you happen to be in the hood, or lost for things to do in London on the 29th then why not pop along and say hi. I have seen photos of the other stalls contents, WOW there are so many wondrous items for sale, so please do come along and do your Christmas shopping or come and stare at all the marvellous products in amazement. Please click here for a facebook link to some of the other stalls delights on sale. By the way, I drew the poster above which is now canvasing the windows of a large chunk of Wandsworth, every time I spot it I do a little whoop and nudge random strangers and tell them I did that.
Personalised illustrated London street signs:
Any street you fancy, made to order.
Gift tags:
One design of a large selection.
Cupcake toppers:
Cupcake and Christmas cake toppers... a perfect touch for all the Christmas fairs and bake sells coming up.
We hope to see you there. Ho Ho Ho.
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So I could not help myself, I have knocked up another illustration for They Draw and Cook, such addictive stuff, I love their site. This time my recipe was for The Great British Sunday Roast Chicken, an illustration I have been working on for months and months, a lot of effort went into this but I am pleased. And good timing on my part as this week is no less than, drum roll... British Roast Dinner week. Fact. Now I have no idea if this is real or something created by a roast dinner associated brand, but I like it and I like that this drawing was done in time for that, not that they will ever see it. So anyhow here is my recipe, feel free to check it out on the They Draw and cook website here, and leave your comments.
Recipe:
This is the finished recipe, a laid dinner table, hopefully that part was clear.
To the left:
Super simple roast dinner instructions, I am quite proud of my swede drawing. The clothing suggestions are suitably English and obviously what we all wear for Sunday lunch.
And to the right:
The Roast dinner. I have been having a little play lately with hand lettering, I still need to work on it but so far am really loving it.
I hope you like this recipe illustration. So come on, tell me, what/ where is your favourite Roast? Happy roast dinner week one and all.
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