'Forest' prints

As it's the easter holidays and I've been taking lots of beautiful walks in the countryside, I've been working on a series of all-over prints inspired by the woods near my parents home. I need to finalise my colour palette yet but here's a taster!

New work in at Dean Clough!

I've another new stockist for my work over in Halifax, West Yorkshire. The design shop at Dean Clough will be stocking prints, cards and gift tags and should be available for you to see (and buy!) in the next few weeks. 

The shop itself is situated within the Dean Clough Mill alongside Gallery space, businesses and a fabulous restaurant and cafe. For more info check out their website here.

Blimey what a busy week!

What with lots of things coming up on the horizon I thought i'd better pull my finger out and do some work this week! So, i've been revisiting old friends and bulking out my print portfolio - here are some of the results! Hope you like them.

Badges

All the first set of badges have nearly sold out! I'll be posting the last few up on etsy this weekend and then thinking about getting the next set sorted and sent for printing! The little sausage dogs will be definitely making an appearance. . .

New Pattern

Inspired by my lino-prints, this is one of a series of all over prints i've been working on this week!

'The Stalls' Saltaire fair today!

Thanks to everyone who came and saw me in Saltaire today! I met some great people and made some good contacts too which is always nice. Below are some quick snaps I took of the stall - and to think I thought I wouldn't have enough work - pah!

Busy weekend!

Papercut flyer!

A rather fiddley papercut flyer i've made for the forthcoming Saviours gig at the Brudenell in Leeds. There'll possibly be some screen printed versions available at the show if I get time to make some...fingers crossed! 

Mothers Day event

I'll be flying solo for my next fair, exhibiting at 'The Stalls' in Saltaire on Mothering Sunday. The stall will be selling cards, badges, books, prints, tags, so there's bound to be something you can treat your mom (or yourself!) too. 

Book Fair weekend!

Thanks to all of you who came to see 'We Have Beaks' at the book fair this weekend. We had a great time and met lots of lovely people too! I somehow managed to forget to take many pictures but here are a couple of our stall:

If you're in Leeds come see us. . .

Book Prints

The book making frenzie continues, not long now. Here are a selection of linoprints that are going to be made into books for the stall. Will photograph them so you can see them when they're all bound and ready to go!

Happy Valentines Day!

Collection of Valentines Day Cards, produced for and available from Leeds Craft Centre and Design Gallery

Books!

So, the Leeds Artist Book-fair is looming - 6th / 7th March - and i'm really busy now trying to make enough items for our stall. Last weekend 'We Have Beaks' (Myself, Sarah Mitchell and Ruth Viqueira) had a meeting about our stall and now I'm really excited about how it's going to look and all the beautiful things the others are gonna make. As soon as we have a nice sunny day I'll take some more photos of what i've made so far so you can see them - for now here's a sneaky peak...

Stormy weather ahead!

A cute little reduction linoprint I've been working on of late. Part of a series I think I'm going to produce to do with 'transport'. Think hot air balloons, bicycles and definitely more little boats!

Valentines day ideas

Love is in the air. . .well kind of. Been thinking about valentines day cards today, as well as easter designs, paper cuts I want to make and books to print and bind - does my brain ever stop coming up with things for me to do! As much as I keep thinking I should try to incorporate more motifs other than birds in my work I don't seem to be able to help it - they're just so cute!

Alphabet prints

I've been trying to organise myself over the festive break so that when I get back into the studio in the new year I can be as productive as I can. My first project of 2009 will be to screen print some alphabet books in various colourways for the Artist Book Fair in March. I want at least two differently illustrated letters so the clock really is ticking - will hopefully get them onto screen in the next 2 weeks - can't wait to go and do some printing!

Blog Review

The lovely Jomo of 'Peace Of Pi' studio has featured me on her blog, check out the post here.

New lot of prints. . .

Been playing around this week with new papers to collage with and new colour schemes, various items to be featured on my Etsy shop soon.

Ridiculously exciting news!

A little while ago I posted that I was going to submit some images for consideration for the forthcoming 'Print & Pattern' book, published by Laurence King. Well, this week I am extremely pleased to say that my submission was successful and the book shall be including 3 images of my work alongside a short biography! The thought of having some of my prints in such a publication is very exciting and I look forward to seeing the final article when it comes out; will keep you in the know.

Online gallery of gig posters

Over the last few years I've produced lots of hand screened posters for various gigs around Leeds and you can now find some of them documented all in one place! www.gigposters.com has great posters from a variety of international designers and is well worth a look for a spot of illustration inspiration. Check out my page on the site here.

Card printing weekend

I've been busy printing lots of cards this weekend, I've just about finished the next set of cards for Leeds Craft Gallery, 2 cute little robins, and I've also been stitching some new monoprint birthday cards. They'll be available to purchase from Pink Parakeet at Etsy in the next few days. Right, off to do some more cutting and sticking!

Etsy shop review

The lovely Sarah Collier from Charm School Dropout was kind enough to feature Pink Parakeet on her blogspot this week! Check her post here:
Charm School Dropout

Christmas is coming...

and so are my cards! Finished my first run of xmas tree cards today, robins and other festive treats to follow in the coming weeks.

Bookmaking!

I've been busy experimenting with book ideas with a view to having a stall at the Contemporary Artists Book Fair in Leeds - March 2009. I know it's a long way off but as I've got loads to do I thought I'd better get started. I've got so many ideas to get down!

Cards for sale

Leeds Craft Gallery and Design Centre are now stocking some of my hand printed card designs (including those below). If you live in Leeds and fancy picking one up get yourself down there alternatively they should be appearing on my new etsy site soon, so keep your eyes peeled!

Setting up my Etsy Shop

This week I'll be finally setting up my etsy shop, there you'll be able to purchase some of my handmade cards, prints and books.

Enter www.pinkparakeet.etsy.com into your browser or click on the link on the right to take a peek!

Submitting for Print & Pattern book

Today I'm sending off 12 images for consideration for the forthcoming Print & Pattern book - published by Laurence King. I'm ever so excited about this new book, I'm an avid reader of the blog and can't wait to see all the great things from it compiled into one place! Don't know if i'll get in, but you never know do you-you've got to be in it to win it as they say!

'Love Bird' prints

New prints I've been working on under the theme 'love birds'. They're still work in progress but getting there. More to follow...

More exhibitions

May/June are very busy for me having 4 exhibitions going on at various times. As well as the Illustrators exhibition - see post below - I will also have work on show at:

'On Your Wall Too' - Leeds Met Gallery, May Bank Holiday weekend

'Sovereign Chambers Charity Showcase' - Leeds, 14th - 24th May

'Imprint 2008' - see below flyer for more info.

New print...

Exhibition coming up

I'm exhibiting 2 of my recent prints in the above exhibition at 'View From The Top' Gallery in Nottingham. If you fancy going and having a look you'll find more details here: www.viewfromthetop.co.uk

New prints...

More birdy prints I've been making

Just a few developments on the print front - I'm working towards getting some exhibited/on sale in the next month - will let you know when/where...

Hope you like them.x

New birdy prints coming along...

I've been working on some retro inspired birdy repeat prints of late and also some lino/book creations too - here's a taster.

Adventures in lino

A book is beginning to materialise..