More Fruits: Lemons and Blackberries

I set myself a challenge to re-illustrate the graphic for the Twinings' tea "Green tea with lemon". I also wanted to experiment with various styles and approaches to a subject, and lemons seemed like a good, simple subject to do.

As well as some quite detailed and highly textured studies, I also tried some simpler versions, using less colours and for others, minimal brush strokes.

 My final design:

I also painted some juicy and very ripe blackberries. They were fun to do but it was difficult to select the best colours to use, as I found that I wanted to highlight the rich shades in order to really emphasise their juicyness, but I had to do so without making them appear unnaturally colourful!

New Fruits: Red & Green Grapes and Wine labels

I have been so wrapped up in trying to get things done lately that I have been forgetting to blog! Here are some more portfolio images I have been working on. I have been wanting to create some more food illustrations, in particular for packaging, and where is a better place to start than some mock wine labels?

I aimed to paint big juicy bunches of grapes in a similar way to the vegetables (link) by drawing them from life and then focusing on capturing their rich colours. I have also added a background with these, something that I do not do often enough.

I attempted a much looser effect with some red grape vines, and have experimented with using them as a design for a mock Welch's juice design.

Creative BloQ Wallpaper Feature: Camels and Goldfish

Creative BloQ asked me to create a wallpaper for their weekly giveaway...and this week, it has been my turn to be featured! It also features a little bio and some words from me about the "camels" series.

I am super excited about this little feature as their previous wallpapers have been supplied by some legendary artists, such as last week's Jon Burgerman. Check out the rest of the wallpapers here.

You can download my camels to use as a desktop, and my oranda goldfishes as a wallpaper for your iPad! Here

Peacock Wallpaper - for Desktop, iPad & iPhone/iPod

I am designing some wallpapers!

Feel free to decorate your computer desktop, iPad, iPhone or iPod with them, and share them with others. I experimented with a few different layouts for the designs, but in the end it was clear that simple and clean is best, with plenty of space for desktop icons and apps. Please let me know if you like them!

First to be made into a wallpaper is his royal-blue highness, the peacock.

To download: Right click and select "open link in new window"

 

Desktop (1920 x 1080)

 



iPhone/iPod (40 x 960) 

iPad (1536 x 2048)




 



Sketchbook: Carlisle Cathedral

This is one of a few recent drawings for a potential future project involving the historic and beautiful Carlisle city... (after living there for three years during my studies at uni I have grown to love Carlisle very much!)

I may reduce the amount of detail in some areas, as I would like to have a slightly looser look to the final illustration.

And these are some very tiny and very rough idea sketches for more of the main tourist attractions in the city. Its funny to see the initial sketch of the cathedral next to the final drawing above!

Fine Art Greetings Cards by Green Pebble

I am very excited to announce that you can now buy some of my illustrations as fine art cards!

They are: the wheaten maran hen, welsummer rooster, three lutino (yellow) budgies, proud blue budgie, goldfinch pair, kingfisher and bullfinch.

Green Pebble are the makers of beautiful fine art greetings cards, and their products appear in shops, galleries and museums all over the south east of England. They are quite a new brand, and originally they started by featuring the artwork of only East-Anglian artists on their cards, however they are now branching out to feature artists work from all over England.

I am so proud to be included in their range of cards, as all of their other artists are so very talented!

You can shop my range from the Green Pebble website here

Berry-Purple "Barry M" & Coral "Maybelline" Nail Polish in Watercolour

Just a bit of experimentation with something different - I prefer illustrating animals and nature but I wanted to challenge myself to do something cosmetic and shiny, and really make those colours pop. These are some of my favourite nail polishes I had laying around.

Finished final piece: 

All Images are (C) Amy Holliday

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