Home Sweet Home Typography Framed Picture // Housewarming Gift

A friend of mine has just celebrated moving into her new home. As a little gift, I had an A3 (approximate size) print made of my "Home Sweet Home" typography and also had it framed. Back when I first finished the typography she had commented that it would look great in her then future new home...

Since then, others have told me how much they liked it and so I have had requests for more to be made :)

"Spring Racing Carnival" // Illustrations for The Design Depot Magazine, Melbourne Australia

In April I was approached by the lovely people at Design Depot Magazine (Victoria, Australia) who asked me to provide illustrations for an upcoming article on this year's Spring Racing Carnival. 

The Spring Racing Carnival is held at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne every year running from late September to mid-November and is a prestigious event for both sport and fashion!

Websites: The Design Depot | Spring Racing Carnival | Flemington Racecourse

The famous Flemington entrance gates...

Spring Carnival fashion...

Pretty Spring decor ideas...

Victoria, Australia's rainbow lorikeets...

Some of these subjects were a little different for me! The Flemington gates definitely took the longest amount of time to complete, but the most challenging aspect of these illustrations was finding the best way
to portray a glamorous lady dressed in her fashionable racing attire - I wanted to capture a very sophisticated look but also keep it fun and fresh, just like her vivid outfit.

Here are some of my other drawings that were decided not be used and so went unfinished: (Although I would like to paint them at some point!)

A pretty, flower-covered holiday chalet...

 The famously perfect Flemington Roses...

Here are my initial ideas/designs illustrating the glamorous ladies attendance showing 

off their fashionable racing outfits...

All images are (C) Amy Holliday 2013. Not to be used without permission.