Craft Fairs

Winter 2010

I signed up for my first craft fairs last winter. Both were in the basement of a comedy club in Brighton. The first one went pretty well, but I soon realised what kind of price people expect to pay at these craft fairs. Once I lowered my prices, coasters began to sell quickly. As long I am still making a profit, it is more important to me for new people to see and buy my art. 

I did another fair 2 weeks later, and this time brought along cheaper things like super tiny prints which I sold for £1.00 each. These sold out within the first 2 hours. I also did some mug and coaster sets winch all sold out and had a few people who kept coming back for more.

Second Set of Russian Stacking Dolls a la Owl

The world doens't have enough Russian dolls painted like owls – so did another set to make the world a better place.

All together as a happy little owl family

They are still probably one of my most favourite things ever.

Long time no see.....

So it has been about a year and half since I last visited the old blogger. I basically spent november 2010 to July 2011 making and creating for our wedding in July. The whole wedding almost homemade. My parents make all the food, my mom altered my dress, and I made a beaded sash and headband to go with my wedding dress, the invites, hundreds of paper decorations and a shitload more that I can't even remember now.

I will post up what artworks I have done over the last little while.

Russian Stacking Dolls a la Owl

I bought two sets of blank wooden russian stacking dolls a few months ago via ebay. I have been dying to paint them, but have been busy. See below...

So this weekend I have finally been able to paint them. I saw these really cool stacking dolls on deviant.art, which gave me the idea to do some of my own. Of course my first thought was owls.

Anyways, here they are.

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So many birds, so little time.

So a couple of weeks ago I submitted a bunch of my paintings for this art festival that went on in Chichester. The organiser was looking for artists, so I asked "what for?" and they said "an art maze!"and I said "okay, count me in!". That's basically how it went down. The theme was Myth/Enchantment/Conspiracy, so I painting a load of owls.............. I was already painting owls, so just continued on with what I was doing and hoped that people would be able to link the theme with my paintings.

Here they all are on show:

There were a few pieces cut out from this shot, but you get the idea.

So that is what I have been up too. Painting owls.

Here are some better pictures of some of the new paintings.

This one I love. I bought this frame of preloved.co.uk for £8.00. Bargain! It is just plastic, but it looks really cool. Mind the glare in the photo, I have to re-take this one. I call this one the "bad owl". I am so uncreative with the naming of my paintings.

I call this one the cardinal. This bird's hands creep me out.. I love it!

Click this one to see it bigger. He's holding a tiny cat.

I love this one too. Also a tiny cat on it's head.

The Bird King?

Owl made from crows. Creepy? A little bit.

tree barn owl

crow mask

There are loads more. Check out the website or the facebook to see them all. Most of them are for sale as well. And I need to sell them as I am seriously getting over-run with art. 

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Long time no see

Soooo I've been a bit busy/lazy.

Well since the last update I've been home to Canada for 3 weeks and done loads of wedding planning. I have managed to fit in an entire new series of paintings though. I've just not had time to update blogs and fb... but when I say 'not had time' I really mean 'couldn't be bothered'.

There is this Art and Music festival in Chichester that I've taken part in (very small). They've built this maze full of art and I added some paintings to it. So in 2.5 weeks I painted 19 new paintings, all bird related. Hoorah!

Heres a taste, more to come later.

This one I did a year or so ago (just the bird). It started out as just a random tea stain which evolved into a bird. I added the doodles recently. Much better.

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business cards!!!

Just got my very first business cards in the post today.

They are amazing!

I have 1000 so if you can expect to get some from my when you see me.

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