"The Little Book of Bees" // Beekeeping Tools and Honey Illustrations

Beekeeping equipment illustrated for The Little Book of Bees - a traditional beekeeping suit hood, two hive tools, a smoker and a honey extractor. 

Honey in its various forms: capped honey, as it looks as soon as it is removed from a traditional beehive, raw honeycomb, a honey dipper and glass jars.

 The Little Book of Bees is published by HarperCollins and Abrams

Artwork © Amy Holliday 2019

www.amyholliday.co.uk

Artists & Illustrators Feb 2017 // Pocket Painting Guide

This month's issue of "Artists & Illustrators" includes a free pamphlet full of art-improving tips - featuring artwork by me! I was asked to create a cover design for the little guide and had free rein to have fun and add my own "flair" - obviously it turned out to be very enjoyable to do.  

I was provided with a basic colour theme to follow of warm, feminine colours which would eventually translate onto the main magazine cover itself.

The idea was to create a messy, busy and energetic front cover reflecting the contents to be bursting with creative tips and tricks. I illustrated each element as an individual object before scanning and reassembling the design digitally. The single illustrations were also used as chapter headers.

The guide is beautifully designed and is indeed bursting with helpful advice - I've already discovered a few things I didn't know and plan to keep it handy for future reference.

Some of my favourites:

The Artists & Illustrators February 2017 issue featuring the Pocket Painting Guide is available NOW in Tesco and Sainsburys stores around the UK!

All artwork (C) Amy Holliday 2017 do not use without permission

For more of my work please visit www.amyholliday.co.uk

Horticulture

For my final project of the semester, and my final university project ever(!) I was asked to create a "man-made" font, due to the fact my tutors wanted to see me illustrate something that was not of the natural world for a change haha.

I ultimately decided to base my new typeface on the very interesting, old, rustic-looking gardening tools my parents have in thier garden shed.....I scanned most of my pencil drawings before I began to add colour to them: (click to enlarge)

After producing studies, I began to shape the tools into letterforms in order to make up a word to present my font:

Final piece: (click to enlarge)