fantastic mr. fox

Here's a nice little project from Elena Iezzi.
10,000 foxes, a collection of drawings of urban foxes, drawn by you (and me).

Elena is planning to collect 10,000 individual drawings, one for each fox in London.
I'm a little bit terrified of foxes in real life, but in drawing form they can be pretty delightful so I'm definitely going to send one in.
I practiced by drawing a fox and some pigeons:


I wonder how many pigeons there are in London? Answers on a postcard please.

Oh, and here's a nice bit of stencil work I happened across today - good acorns.

show and tell

As promised here are some pictures of the lovely things I picked up at the art junky fair last week:


Isn't this jigsaw puzzle lovely? I'd call it a dogsaw rather than a jigsaw though. It cost me £1 and kept me entertained for 2 evenings last week. What more can you ask for?

I also bought this rather sweet arctic hare:


Made by Kaye Blegvad from the Illustrators Elbow collective, a group currently studying on the BA Illlustration course at Brighton uni.
They are a talented bunch so do check them out!

love is in the air

I'm not sending any valentines cards this year but if I was I would definitely send one of these:







Beautiful e-cards, each by a different artist.
And check out the rest of the site too as there is more lovely stuff.
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back to school

yesterday i received my formal offer from brighton university for the postgraduate course i applied for (MA Sequential Design & Illustration) - how exciting.
so hopefully i'll be off to live by the sea in september...

the university is tres nice. they have a lovely bookbinding department and hopefully i'll have the chance to learn letterpress when i'm there too.

i have already encountered some wonderful illustrative people who have completed the course previously. the winner of the student category in the 2006 v&a illustration awards - chu-li chen graduated last year from the course so that is quite impressive!

other illustrators to have taken the course include john harrison whose course outcome start a story is an oh so nice set of collaborative projects - my favourite is the flow chart adventure (i submitted my own attempt here) - lovely!
anwen williams also took the course and nowadays she creates lots of lovely badges and illustrations (i love her website) - i am planning to attend this little fair at some point in the next few weeks where she is selling some of her work (amongst other talented people):



so in short, all these lovely illustrators are doing a good job of convincing me that brighton uni is definately the place to be - oh so exciting!

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