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Hello one and all, and welcome to my blog page where I will be keeping you updated on what I’m up to.
This year seems to be flying by at an alarming rate – May already? Get outta here! The first couple of months of 2009 has seen me illustrating my father’s book – an amusing account of his time in National Service, with some 22 cartoons.
It was quite strange drawing my dad as a young man generally getting up to no good! Reading the book was a little like meeting him as a 19 year-old and bringing his hilarious anecdotes to life was great fun. The book is called ‘A Cherrypicker Conscript’ by Peter Walker and is at the publisher’s as we speak. Any army bods out there may find it interesting so I’ll let you know when it’s out!
I’ve also been designing and making 4ft golden Bafta-style masks for a masked charity ball at Heaton House Farm in aid of Cancer Research UK. It was a splendid evening and well over £15.000 was raised. One of the auction prizes was to commission a painting by yours truly. Nerve-racking to be sat there whilst the bidding was going on but it went for a pretty respectable price (phew!) and I am discussing ideas with the lovely people who bought it at the moment.
Another great little project has been for up and coming marketing company ‘Try Me Now’ for their website. Try Me Now deals with the marketing and distributing of organic products so I have designed nine little pictures depicting the simple journey of organic vegetables from the field to the mouth! Check them out on www.trymenow.co.uk
Further to this is graphic design work for website designers The Simple Site Company – a great new outfit doing exactly what it says on the tin – creating effective, eye-catching simple websites at very competitive prices. Contact david@simplesiteco.com or go to www.simplesiteco.com for more details.
That’s all for now folks! Feel free to contact me with any art enquiries or queries on paint products or decorating problems. Just call me the Paint Doctor!
Bye for now,
Jo x
This year seems to be flying by at an alarming rate – May already? Get outta here! The first couple of months of 2009 has seen me illustrating my father’s book – an amusing account of his time in National Service, with some 22 cartoons.
It was quite strange drawing my dad as a young man generally getting up to no good! Reading the book was a little like meeting him as a 19 year-old and bringing his hilarious anecdotes to life was great fun. The book is called ‘A Cherrypicker Conscript’ by Peter Walker and is at the publisher’s as we speak. Any army bods out there may find it interesting so I’ll let you know when it’s out!
I’ve also been designing and making 4ft golden Bafta-style masks for a masked charity ball at Heaton House Farm in aid of Cancer Research UK. It was a splendid evening and well over £15.000 was raised. One of the auction prizes was to commission a painting by yours truly. Nerve-racking to be sat there whilst the bidding was going on but it went for a pretty respectable price (phew!) and I am discussing ideas with the lovely people who bought it at the moment.
Another great little project has been for up and coming marketing company ‘Try Me Now’ for their website. Try Me Now deals with the marketing and distributing of organic products so I have designed nine little pictures depicting the simple journey of organic vegetables from the field to the mouth! Check them out on www.trymenow.co.uk
Further to this is graphic design work for website designers The Simple Site Company – a great new outfit doing exactly what it says on the tin – creating effective, eye-catching simple websites at very competitive prices. Contact david@simplesiteco.com or go to www.simplesiteco.com for more details.
That’s all for now folks! Feel free to contact me with any art enquiries or queries on paint products or decorating problems. Just call me the Paint Doctor!
Bye for now,
Jo x
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