Food Illustrations

I’ve been painting food illustrations, as I’m currently focusing on emailing cafes for design work/painted a-boards. As I often use pastels they add a bold whimsical feel to the food, I’ve always wondered how my style would reflect on different objects.

Illustrated Mugs & Notebooks

For my Etsy shop I put my illustrations onto mugs and notebooks, it’s wonderful to see my designs on actual objects. They both came out so well, I even added patterns onto the inside of the notebooks!

Cambridge Art Fairs

Before Christmas I did a few art fairs in Cambridge. They were really fun, I loved preparing my table with decorations. I love handmade things so created a lot myself including a few hundred hand-written business cards, which took some time but turned out lovely. Getting feedback on my products straight away was great, I learnt a lot about what customers preferred and pricing. I’m really excited to do more this year!

Moving to Cambridge

Last October we moved to Cambridge, it’s such a beautiful city and I’m really loving cycling everywhere. It was also our first time moving out, so i’ve enjoyed decorating out little flat. This inspired an illustration as all i’ve been looking at are dreamy interiors.

Cherry Reds A-Boards

Last summer I painted two a-boards for Cherry Reds cafe in Birmingham. I really enjoyed painting in a much bigger scale than I usually do. The colours really popped and looked so fun on the street. I hope I get to do a few more of theses!

Delightful Lines Branding

While creating my online shop Delightful Lines, I had fun branding it myself. I enjoyed picking out a name and colours and creating a little logo. I even brought little extras like washi tape, ribbon and confetti for packaging and product photographs.

For the name I thought my illustrations were quite delicate and cute, so delightful worked perfectly, I added lines to refer to drawing. With the name it made the rest of the branding quite easy, delicate lines creating the type for the logo and coral worked well with my illustrations.

To see the full branding visit my shop!

Promo Postcards

These are some postcards I’ve been sending out to publishers and art directors, using my recent painted illustrations of portraits and wildlife. I also really enjoyed hand drawing some typography to create an info side. I found some on-brand envelopes and spent time hand writing the addresses, they turned out lovely and I’ve had some really encouraging responses from them so far.

Ladies of Nature Illustrations

I’ve been busy creating another collection of personal illustrations, Ladies of Nature. Bringing together ladies and breathtaking wildlife and nature. I really wanted more practice with painting portraits and combining them wit animals created a wonderful combination. I used features from rams, owls, cats, snakes and deers. These will hopefully be making their way to my shop soon!

 To see the full collection check my portfolio!

A Little Nordic Illustrations

Since graduating I’ve been creating my own online shop to sell my illustrations. I’ve spent time learning how to use gouache paint which I’ve fallen in love with for it’s lovely smooth texture to paint with and matt finish. It’s been a material I’ve always wanted to have a play with. I learnt the hard way that it often drys darker that intended.

I created illustrations inspired by my trip to Scandinavia last year, I fell in love with the colourful buildings, clean sophisticated design and breathtaking nature. The collection is called A Little Nordic and includes traditional wooden houses and sleek townhouses from across the countries, typical Scandinavian wildlife and the famous fjords and mountains.

If you’re interested in any of the illustrations, please do take a look at my store Delightful Lines.

Copenhagen, Denmark

I went on a two week long trip around Scandinavia, it was an absolutely incredible place. With lots of hiking, cycling, eating, fjords and cities. We started in Copenhagen, Denmark. An absolutely beautiful city, with open roads, colourfully painted buildings and hanging street lamps.

Finishing University!

Just a quick update to say I’ve graduated university! I achieved a first in Graphic Communication, which I’m super happy about. (Find my final year work at my new website!) I was also awarded the Student of the Year Award in the Lara Awards, which was such an unreal experience.

Walt Disney World: Day Three

Our last day was spent in Magic Kingdom, It was fantastic to be back in this park.

Walt Disney World: Day Two

On our second day we went to Epcot for a different style of theme park!

Packaging and Branding Work

It's about time I show you my design work from before Christmas!

Walt Disney World: Day One

I’m a huge Disney fan and this was my first visit to Disney World so I was pretty excited!

New York: Photographs Two

Here's the final photographs from New York City! In the next few weeks I have lots of posts ready with Disney World, London and more recently Bath. I'll also be showing off my designs from the first term of my final uni year, which I'm really pleased with.

Third and Final Year

Posts might be a little spaced out at the moment because I'm back at uni for my third and final year, so at the moment it's designing and illustrating for my projects and writing my dissertation. It's a lot of work at the moment, but i'm really enjoying it.

New York: Photographs

Here’s some more photographs from New York City! I took so many and just had to share some more with you as it’s such a gorgeous city!

New York Day Seven: Flat Iron and Shopping

For our finally day in New York City we got some shopping done!

New York Day Six: Empire State Building and The Lion King

We were off to the Empire Statue Building on our 6th day. Going up the Empire State was much quicker than we expected, only taking about an hour, much less queuing than the Eiffel Tower.