Apple cake!

Fresh out of the oven :)

Business Boom Collective feature

http://businessboomcollective.com/0327/chloe-douglass/

The lovely folk at Business Boom Collective have done a feature on me! I know right?! Why not have a quick read, shan't take you too long :)

Ballgown doodles...

Toying with some ideas for a project...

All four flowers out!

Isn't it great?!  Second year running with four blooms :)

What's happening so far in the garden

Well my daffs haven't come to anything, but my Hyacinths are out and flowering before them! As are the Muscari and lo and behold a random Snowdrop appeared in one of my pots, not sure how that got there!

Some more Henny Bear and Duck doodles..

Just some quick doodles, thinking up some greeting card ideas with the pair of them on...

Sneak preview of new page from ipad Pablo!

Here's one of the new pages from the ipad version of The One and Only Pablo!

I think all the backgrounds are pretty much all done now, going over the text with an author friend on Wednesday and just need to draw out all the bits that need to 'move' for animating when touched on the screen. But that can wait until later this week. I need a wee break from Pablo for now! As I learnt in the Horizon programme 'The Creative Brain', I need to mind wander for a while :)

Summer seeds!

Here sits 350 potential Sweet Peas (55 from Dad's garden and 35 from a seed packet the rest from last years crop!) a handful of Freesia in an egg carton and two cascading Begonias in half a fizzy pop bottle taking up my kitchen work top until they're big enough to go outside!

I really need a greenhouse

My Amaryllis finally opened!

Isn't it lovely!? It's colouring is apple blossom incase you were wondering :)

Lovely end pages

My Dad loaned me his gardening book bible, and it's been invaluable so far with planting of my new bulbs, and what to buy for a shady garden like mine :)

An 'oh he's so handsome *sigh*' doodle!

International Women's Day!

I wonder what my faves the Suffragettes would have made of it?

World Book Day doodle!

Here's a small doodle for world book day. They formed a HUGE part of my growing up and shaped me into what I wanted to do when I grew up! There's nothing better than getting lost and enthralled in a book :D

Working on some colouring doodle pages...

Here's a little look see!

Oscar ballgowns!

I'm thinking I do some interpretations of my fave gowns from the oscars :)
I always love what jennifer lawrence wears.

Ta da!! A last London Fashion week illo for Amelia's Magazine

The last illustration for Amelia's Magazine about London Fashion week is for designer Charlie May! Jumping with manic glee!

http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/fashion/charlie-may-london-fashion-week-aw-2013-catwalk-review/2013/02/26/

A couple more London Fashion Week illustrations for Amelia's Magazine!

Here are my latest illustrations cover London Fashion week! Heohwan Simulation and my favourite so far Carlotta Actis Barone!

http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/fashion/carlotta-actis-barone-london-fashion-week-aw-2013-catwalk-review/2013/02/21/

http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/fashion/heohwan-simulation-london-fashion-week-aw-2013-catwalk-review/2013/02/22/

Amelia's Magazine! PPQ

Here's my latest illustration to go up on Amelia's Magazine, it's from the PPQ show during London Fashion Week. I've loved drawing these ladies, a couple more to go up too!

http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/fashion/ppq-london-fashion-week-aw-2013-catwalk-review/2013/02/20/

New illustration for Amelia's Magazine!

Another fashion illustration for the wonderful Amelia's magazine for Dans La Vie's AW13 collection by Rira Sugawara. The article features an illustration by a fellow Yoillo chum Sarah Underwood too! :) http://sarahunderwoodillustration.co.uk/

http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/fashion/dans-la-vie-london-fashion-week-aw-2013-catwalk-review-and-interview/2013/02/19/

Tough women doodle

Boadecia and Joan!

Re-visiting The One and Only Pablo!

Going back to re-storyboarding my final masters project ready to make good for a new dummy and to have a version as an ipad app ebook thingy! 

Amelia's Magazine!

So I've been busily trying to get more bits up on my website!! But I've also had an illustration published  on Amelia's Magazine website showing Nicole Fahris Easter patchwork print shirt dress, and my Valentines card mentioned too :)

http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/fashion/style-passport-an-interview-with-fashion-retail-website-entrepreneur-sarah-walters/2013/02/04/

http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/art/valentines-day-2013-card-ideas-and-prints-for-gifts/2013/02/05/

New Henny Bear pic.

Time for a cuppa tea...

Homage to Sebastian the crab!

A quick doodle request I had this afternoon! :)

Somewhere over the rainbow...

I've added the little birds to my website, but for my blog I thought I'd put them in the sky :)

little birds in progress!

Another work in progress. I can't quite think what best to do with them as yet! :)

Finished Henny Bear and Duck illo!

Another finished page today. Really need to storyboard something for these two :) 

Wedding Cards!

I've been wanting to do a range of greeting cards for ages, and finally making a start, adding to the xmas cards I did here's some wedding ones!

Work in progress!

Whats started out as some doodles is now possibly a fledging story about a bear called Henny and a duck. Working up colouring one of the doodles, just need to add some texture and I think it's there!

Happy New Year! Long overdue post!

Hope you all had a lovely winter holidays time! Just before xmas, I was selling my xmas cards at the first Yoillo! market stall.  Here is the guy behind it, Rob Barrett displaying the wares!

Hopefully there'll be more over the year. It was good fun setting up the stall.

In other news, remember the doodles in the first book I did with Philip Weeks? Well there's now a second book all about Painful Bladder Syndrome!
 Here's a few snaps. I wish I was allowed to do the covers on these things :)