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I finished my latest animal painting last week, 'Captain Seadog'. He's now fully rigged and ready to set sail and aim cannon against ' Captain Ratbeard '. Captain Seadog Watercolour & Gouache 24 x 31cm I found this piece challenging because there is not a lot of fussy detail and lots of open spaces in the composition. I kept going back to N.C Wyeth's treasure island paintings as I worked trying to grasp his wonderful sense of design and colour.
You can now get a huge £10 off these limited edition Wild Ride screenprints with code WILDRIDE10 in my shop! This offer is only on until Christmas, so get your orders in before they're all snapped up (well, hopefully!). www.emmelineillustration.mysupadupa.com.
This post is one in a series on the artists featured in the upcoming exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum, State of the Art: Illustration 100 Years After Howard Pyle. Digital animation is one of the most important aspects of modern illustration, but it was difficult to identify a single artist to represent this rich and burgeoning field in the Delaware show.
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What makes a good web font? Before we wrote the first line of code for Cloud.typography , or lit the first pixel of our first ScreenSmart font, we began the search for a solution to this riddle. The answers are unexpected: a good web font is more than just legible, and more than just attractive, and some provocative solutions come from some unexpected places.
The title of this post is lifted from a talk Dave Olson (aka Uncle Weed) gave in 2009. The statement still resonates, because it succinctly emphasizes what's important in the writing you do. Trying t.
How exciting! introducing The Skeleton Dress Fifi Lapin Charm. Attach it to your favorite necklace or bracelet for the perfect conversation piece. *Sorry these are now SOLD OUT!* ABOUT Limited edition gold plated enamel charm - only 100 made. The perfect gift for a loved one or yourself! The charm measures approx. 3.5cm tall and has a lovely lustrous quality and silky smooth finish.
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How exciting! introducing The Skeleton Dress Fifi Lapin Charm. Attach it to your favorite necklace or bracelet for the perfect conversation piece. *Sorry these are now SOLD OUT!* ABOUT Limited edition gold plated enamel charm - only 100 made. The perfect gift for a loved one or yourself! The charm measures approx. 3.5cm tall and has a lovely lustrous quality and silky smooth finish.
Here is what I am working on at the moment: This is Captain Seadog the navy captain sworn to guard the seas and coasts against Captain Ratbeard. In other news I am now a father to a lovely little baby born called Arthur! He was born early morning Thursday 5th December and both him and mother are doing great. Hopefully that explains why I haven't posted much recently.
This is a bit of a jump from my previous post 'Cheetah chase' (more on that later). Below you can see a detailed rough of the next animal painting to go with my recent series of work. I've decided to call him Captain Ratbeard, his long beard is braided but unlike Blackbeard it's not smouldering - I didn't think his hairs would stay lit in such a terrible sea storm.
The Orator Watercolour / Gouache 24 x 31cm Hot off the easel, watercolour painting finished and scanned this morning! I had a bit of trouble with the values in this painting. I have attempted to increase them on Mr Toad while letting the background level out slightly in the hope that the main character will stand out sufficiently. Now, that's not easy to do when you have an open fireplace crackling merrily in the background as it forces you to develop contrasts so the flame look suitably bright.
Below you can see two paintings I am working on right now, even as I type this my other hand is holding a paintbrush, one eye is on the screen and the other eye is overseeing my brushwork. I'm also playing 'The Entertainer' on an old upright piano I have in the corner of my studio, I really hope the wind doesn't change or I'm stuck like this forever.
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I've made a start on the next in my series of whimsical-animal-based-fantasy watercolour paintings (I need to think of a better title). I'm really trying to push the warm and cool colour relationships in this painting and I'll have to be careful when I'm painting the snow, I've never been much good at that.
Happy New Year guys! It's been a couple of weeks since delving back into my freelance work - I spent a lot of the Christmas break by the sea and in the forests, so my inspiration bucket was re-filled. It's certainly been busy so far though! I'm working on two new kid's books at the moment, which will be out later this year. In other news, last week I FINALLY managed to get a frame for this signed Oliver Jeffers / Y ou & Me The Royal We print I won a year or so back.
Recently a west coast illustrator was outraged to discover that her art had been used without her permission by a corporation, Cody Foster Inc., for its line of Christmas ornaments. The illustrator complained that the stolen art was "100% mine" and launched a publicity campaign attacking the plagiarism of her work: However, during her publicity campaign it was discovered that the illustrator herself had "borrowed" someone else's copyrighted work to make her illustrations.
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The last of my small roughs that has been approved (below). I still have a lot of working out to do (not in the gym, on my drawing board) before I even think about reaching for my brushes. I hoping to give the viewer a bit of a shock in this one. At first glance it looks like a nice civilised game of cards in a warm pub, that is until you spot the stoats accusing look and small knife in his paw which he is about to brandish as the fox picks up is purse of winnings.
I have to wait for these drawings to be approved but hopefully I'll get the go-ahead. The first I like to call 'Retreat From The Windmills' and it is loosely based on the exploits of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza who are represented as an old wiry lion and a plucky meerkat. The second rough shows a father mouse reading a bedtime story, I can envisage the warm glow of the oil lamp and the big patchwork blanket lending a very soft feel to this painting.
If you are in Corsham please come in and say hello to me and Claire Baker. Apart from prints and originals I will also be dishing out slices of stollen which as the day goes on will probably get thinner and thinner as I start to run out - so come early!
Last week I was honoured to feature in the very first issue of the completely gorgeous Pick Wick magazine. There's a great little interview with me about my childhood and how it's influenced the way I work in illustration today. Aside from a bit of an editing-whoopsie with the surname typo (actually happens quite a lot.) it's a really lovely feature with insightful questions and a double page spread of my Wren and The Bear illustration.
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LtoR: Caroline Rudge, Chris Draper x2, Sue Webber, Chris Dunn, Isla Russell Yesterday I spent a great evening sketching with a small group of artists in Biddestone, Wiltshire. It was the first of hopefully many portrait drawing sessions organised by Chris Draper , he also got his friend, Dave, to model for us. It was his first time and I have to say he did an excellent job, he hardly even blinked.
I'm pleased to announce I'll be illustrating a brand new picture book penned by Aidan Moffat and published by Cargo Publishing! "The Lavender Blue Dress" will be out for Christmas 2014. Take a look at this great article in The Scotsman today all about it! [link] There's some great quotes in there about the book (and a few from me!) “Aidan has crafted a sweet and heartwarming tale that shows why he’s one of the best lyricists working today, while Emmeline’s award-winning illustrations really brin
Captain Ratbeard Watercolour & Gouache 24 x 31cm Ahoy m'hearties! Shiver m'timbers and host the main sail (blimey I don't I'll keep this pirate talk going), if it isn't Captain Ratbeard and his pi-rat-ical crew (get it?). I nearly had as much fun painting the Captain as writing this blog post. Here is one of those few examples of when the finished piece is very similar to the fleeting image I had in my mind's eye.
I recently finished two paintings, here's the first. Cheetah Chase Watercolour & Gouache 24 x 31cm I had a right old time trying to get just the right colour in the stonework, I think I painted the column about 4 times. I have always struggled with lighter values in watercolour because there is so little room for manoeuvre when you use the white of the paper to act as your pastel white.
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I took this photo on my mobile a couple of days ago. I'm now close to finishing but I have to wait until Monday before I'm back in my studio rummaging in my drawers for gouache paints. *Frustration*.
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My first house portrait completed, although it's not a private home but a boarding house instead. Cotton House is named after George Edward Lynch Cotton a well known victorian bishop and former headmaster of Marlborough College. Bishop Cotton left the college in 1858 to take up the office of Bishop of Calcutta, India. While in India, Bishop Cotton organised for shipments of clothing especially socks to be delivered to the poor Indian children he encountered on his travels.
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I'm getting all geared up for my open studio. I have over 100 pieces of art, all available to buy at seriously low prices. I will be tweeting individual pieces regularly so you can get a flavour of what I have to offer so please follow me @chrisdunnillos to be in the know. I am based at the Pound Arts Centre, Corsham SN13 9HX, next door to Penney Ellis and Claire Baker who are also taking part.
My wife was browsing through my website yesterday, it didn't take long before she started to exclaim, "where's the mole in the library?" "What do you mean?" I replied. "You know," then she gave me that look I only get from her when I'm being particularly dense. "The painting of the mole in a library, it's not on your blog." "Isn't it?" "Well, I can't find it" "Oh, I thought I'd posted that already.
Thomas Edison once said “Vision without execution is hallucination.” This statement applies not just to invention, but to graphic design. One of the greatest strengths of graphic designers is the ability to first develop a concept and then execute it to make it real. From visualization and ideation all the way through to actuation and execution, each step of this process takes skill and expertise.
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