Feathered Creature

I always have such a struggle to title my drawings or name my painted things. I'm not huge on words in general - I can never remember song lyrics - unlike my strange Mr Tom who knows every word to every song from the 80s and 90s.

Normally I title them something very simple so I can remember which one is which, however this drawing is a little bit different.

It's called 'I can't hear you'. I added some holes into the side of it's head and into one of the horns last minute because I suddenly thought, how is he going to hear the cardinal. And then thought, ' I don't even know what bird's ears look like... have I even ever seen a bird's ear?!?'. I sort of imagine them to be something like a snake's ear. (I have just now googled bird's ears and they are even weirder than I thought... Google it for yourself to satisfy your curiosity)

 If you have been following my work for a while, this may remind you of a couple of other drawings. Here and here.

For a while now I've been doing a lot of pen drawings with no colour... Which I love, but I sort of missed paint and colour. I've been obsessing over this artist's work for a while now, loving the way he creates fur texture (he is using spray paint for the most part, but its more about the outcome than the technique). 

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Ceramic Owls

Wondering when I am going to get sick of owls. In all honesty, I'm not THAT obsessed with them. Obviously they are incredible birds and beautiful, but more importantly to me.. they are the perfect shape for stacking dolls... and I love drawing them still.

Okay, so Mr Tom and I went to homewares type store a while ago to buy lightbulbs.. litterally that is all we went for.. and I spotted this..

... a slightly hideous white ceramic owl. I bought one and as soon as we got home and began prepping it to be painted... The next day, Bob was born.

Soon as he was done, I sent Tom out to buy two more:

Meet, Hank

And Earl:

 We then went back and bought 3 more plus a bigger one, as all of these 3 were sold very quickly.

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Nakkid Owls

 Some featherless olws for you to enjoy...

 Olws get old too you know.

Some like fur coats

 Others like tuques (uk translation=beanie)

Some have nakkid butts

 Which makes others stare

 Some really just like cats... even if the cats dont like them.

I urge you to click to open this up to see the owls in full. 

My thinking was the have each be a set, so the characters are facing each other in some sort of vague interaction. 

Hope you have enjoyed. 

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Myowlbarn.com

Some very exciting news today for me. I have been featured on myowlbarn blog today. You can see the post here. After being a follower of the blog for a good while I decided to get in touch last week, which surprisingly paid off. It is a huge honor as the blog has 6,000 followers, 10,000 facebook likers... who all obviously love owls as much as me.

My Owl Barn Blog

Find and like them on facebook here.

Find and like me on facebook here.

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Oh ps. Yes Illberun is not my last name, but it is pretty close.

Toy Design Served

I woke this morning to an e-mail from one of the curated Behance galleries notfiying me that my newest collection of owls had been chosen. The very first Russian Owls I did were featured before which was amazing and am so pleased to be chosen again.

Have a looksee yourself, and check out all the other amazing work there.

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Mugs!

Mug sets! The features are now making their appearances on mugs. They were fairly popular at the craft fairs, so I think these will stick around for a little while. 

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