"New Home" and "Home Sweet Home" Nest Typography

 I have finally completed my "new home" and "home sweet home" typography, using my original "nested" letters as the starting point. They probably still need some tweaking, but for now, here they are.

BBC Wildlife Competition 2012 and Glossom Feature!

BBC Wildlife Competition

Ooh the new blogspot layout is niice! I am very excited to let you know that four of my illustrations have made it to the finals in BBC Wildlife Magazine's "Wildlife Artist of the Year 2012" competition! Wow! I'm not getting my hopes up, but I will be keeping all of my fingers and toes crossed. The four that have reached the finals are:

Glossom Feature

The lovely people at Glossom have featured my "nest" typeface on their blog. I am very honoured as it is featured alongside some excellent typography work! You can check it out here.

Work in Progress - "New Home/Home Sweet Home" Nest Banners

 Some test runs using some new letters to see how they match up and fit in with the originals before I paint them...I'm not looking forward to trying to remember how I painted the originals and what colours I used ha! (I did them a long time ago)

British Birds - Song Thrush and Blue Tit

 Another two birds for the British birds series...the song thrush singing its little heart out and the tiny, agile blue tit. I was really nervous about getting the song bird's patterned crest right, and then I was nervous about painting the whole of the blue tit because of its many markings and various colours - but now I think the blue tit is my favourite so far. (You can click the images for a bigger view)

Are there any British-native birds you would like to see? Let me know!

I wanted to see how the designs looked next to one another, so here are the four of them together so far:

British Birds - Greenfinch

This is actually the second version of this greenfinch...I wasn't happy with the first one so I started from scratch!

British Birds - Bullfinch

 The first to be finished in a series of "British birds" - more to come!
This bullfinch took me about 6 hours to do altogether, which was longer than I anticipated, the rowan berries ate up lots of that time.

Kingfisher (Revisited!)

I went back to my little kingfisher painting from late 2010, adding in a river environment in the hope of making it look more finished. Hope you like it!