Bit of Fawn and Thistle blogger love

The lovely Beki, over at Smock to Frock, has reviewed a few of our products.

picture courtesy of Beki at Smock to Frock.

I love that she's photographed them on an amazing pair of antlers, she seems to share Fawn and Thistle's love of animals and anything Stag related.

Be sure to check out her lovely blog.

A Flock of Seagulls

Tomorrow I'm going to be screen printing a new design by Fawn and Thistle (myself and Sangita Southgate), specially commissioned by the Turner Contemporary to tie in with their upcoming Helen Frankenthaler exhibition this January http://www.turnercontemporary.org/exhibitions/making-painting-helen-frankenthaler-and-jmw-turner

For this, there has been quite a few bird illustrations going on:

 

Also starting to think about screen printing t shirts in the near future, mainly because I really want a bear tshirt....

Happy (Belated) New Year

I can't say 2013 was my best year (but it was at least better than 2012!), however, I did finish and pass my MA, get a job as a graphic design lecturer and start what will hopefully be a successful business. So, looking to the future, hopefully 2014 will be amazing.

Anyone have any good New Year's resolutions? Mine is to procrastinate less....already been failing at that though.

Christmas Critters

Here's my three new Christmas illustrations for Fawn and Thistle's Christmas cards.

These designs and three more can be found at Fawn and Thistle HERE


And you can also get some lovely little mirrors  and label stickers too:

New Blood

I've been a bad blogger recently, but I've been so busy! I'm hoping to have some new illustrations to put up soon, but for now I just have this:

You can now buy original screen prints on New Blood Art! At the moment I just have my MA pieces up, but am hoping to get more work done soon. My profile is here : http://newbloodart.com/artist/show/1493

We've also got a new catalogue for Fawn and Thistle which you can have a look at here, now I've finished studying we're hoping to get lot of lovely new products, such as t shirts and totes, but for now our stuff can be bought at the Turner Contemporary in Margate (we got our first wholesale order yay!)

Fawn and Thistle Shop

Fawn and Thistle ( the name I collaborate under with Sangita Southgate) are happy to announce the launch of our online store!

Drop in at www.fawnandthistle.com or click the link to the side.

We hope you enjoy it and we'd love to hear your feedback. You can look forward to cushions, pocket mirrors and many more fun goodies coming soon!

Society 6

Some of my work has been selected by Society 6 to be in their shop. I'm not sure how this is different ot where it was before, but it sounds good!

They've chosen

The Ramskull http://society6.com/product/The-ramskull-and-bird_Print

 

The Bow and Butterfly http://society6.com/product/Bow-and-Butterfly_Print 

Fawn and Thistle http://society6.com/product/Fawn-and-Thistle_Print

 

Polka Dots Fill My Eyes  http://society6.com/product/Polka-Dots-rlO_Print

 

and The Peryton http://society6.com/product/The-Peryton_Print

Related to the Peryton print, I've finally gotten round to doing the actual lino prints (in a make shift printing press in my garden) and will be putting these up soon.

Sneak peek:

Aunty Nora's Vintage and Handmade Market

So today was myself and Sangita's first day as stall holders at a market, and whilst it wasn't the busiest or biggest market ever, we think that the day was a good learning experience (mainly in knowing how to set up our stall;panic set in when we realised how small our table was!) and we managed to sell a reasonable amount for such a quiet day.

Next task for this week is setting up a big cartel shop for Fawn and Thistle and I'm going to be setting up one for my personal stuff too, to allow myself to indulge in my more macabre love of gothic illustration.

 

The top photograph shows off two of my newest illustrations for Grace magazine, which I will be posting about later. I hope everyone's enjoying their sunny bank holidays.

Fawn and thistle business cards

Here's our new business cards for Fawn and Thistle. Pretty cute, right? I really enjoyed designing them!
We've got our first stall at a market this coming Sunday at Aunty Nora's vintage and crafts fair in Deal, so its organisation mode. Hopefully we'll sell something!

Fawn and Thistle facebook

We recently set up a new Fawn and Thistle facebook page, which - due to the lovely boys over at Ohh Deer sharing our little fawn logo - has recieved a lot of love in the past 24 hours. Go and have a quick look-see here and maybe give us some love (a like).

illustration by Miss Sangita Southgate

Fawn and Thistle

Here's the coloured version of my Logo drawing. I can't wait to make these into screen prints!

Fawn and Thistle blog

So there hasn't been that much of a change, just tidied up a bit.

 I have, however,  been giving a new blog a lovely makeover. Myself and a friend have started a collaborative blog called Fawn and Thistle. 

Here we'll be posting the designs we work on together or that compliment each other with the hopes of soon turning them into lots of lovely homewares and prints, so watch that space.