Christmas Market 10th December!

On the 10th December I have a table at a Christmas market at Soup Kitchen in Manchester. The market is being run by the very talented Lisa Stannard (see links below for her website) and will feature a wide variety of stalls selling clothing, prints, accessories, food, vinyl, cards and gifts, perfect for Christmas presents. I will be selling my usual stock; bags, cards, prints, badges plus some special new Christmas cards featuring new designs (see previous blog entries for a peek at the designs) everything on my stall is priced under £6 and it's all original illustrations by me so you can pick up a bargain!

The stall starts at 12pm and ends at 6pm. All the details can be found on the poster below though:


There is also a Facebook event page for the market: https://www.facebook.com/events/285521118154215/

and you can visit Lisa's website here: http://www.lisastannard.com/

'Tis the season....

Over the past couple of weeks I've been working on some Christmas card designs as I'm doing another stall in a few weeks (more about that soon!) and I wanted some Christmassy editions to add to the rest of my stock. As I have quite a predominant animal/bird theme throughout a lot of my work it would seem weird not to continue with that so I chose some Christmas themed birds as my starting point. I wanted the colours to be festive without being forced and luckily all of the birds had very warm coloured feathers. I developed them further as I wanted something a bit more fun and more obviously wintery so I added some hats and scarves to the little birds. Here are some screenshots of some of the patterns I'm considering for my final card designs:


The cards that I'm printing using these patterns will be miniatures (approx 7.5 x 10.5cm) if you're interested in buying any of the cards please don't hesitate to contact me! My contact details are on my website.

The Mill Press

Last week I did some work for the new issue of the Mill Press journal, a publication produced by the Mill Press which is an independent publishing house based in Manchester and London. The theme of the issue was Nude, I won't reveal what I did but I have a couple of snippets of the pieces to tempt you to buy the issue when it comes out! I'm also involved with the Manchester Print Fair which is being organised by the Mill Press. It takes place on the 25th September at Night and Day Cafe in Manchester. There's going to be stalls and an exhibition (I have half a table booked so the Emma Brown Owl goods will be for sale!) so have a peep at the website for more information.

http://www.themillpress.co.uk/

Here's the previews of the new work:

Stall Stall Stall!

Last weekend I took part in a 2 day craft fair at Fred Aldous in Manchester selling my illustrated goods. It was quite a mixed experience really, I managed to sell a few bits, I was selling cards, postcards, prints, badge, bags etc. but overall it was a pretty quiet event. I got a lot of good feedback about my work though which was really lovely and a lot of people seemed interested which is always a good sign! I also spoke to some of the other stall holders who had some useful advice. I'm on the look out for another fair to take part in as I think it's a great way to get hand out business cards and display some of my work and I'm also working on opening an online shop selling the prints and bags etc so keep an eye out for that!

Here's a few images of the stall (taken on a phone unfortunately!)

I also bought myself a little treat from the stall next to me which was ran by Naoco Greenhalgh, she works with felt and had some really fantastic pieces for sale, I picked up a beautiful orange toadstool (which I will photograph soon and put on here!), Naoco was even making items during the 2 days and it was a fascinating to watch. Here is a link to her blog: http://naocolove.blogspot.com/