Ollerina

MISERABLE MIDDLES

Coming very soon,

... Rebel Books are bringing out Miserable Middles, A fairy tale book. Here are the illustrations I have done for it.

MISERABLE MIDDLES by Phoebe Penhalligan and Boo Irwin. Illustrations by Karen Hurd. 

A collection of tales from the Underworld Kingdom including "A Miserable Middle", "The Bloody Ballad", "The Petrified Prince" and others inspired by the recent debate over unhappy endings in children's fiction. The beautiful cover illustration has been designed by Karen Hurd. This collection of tales may sometimes have a miserable middle but they all end happily, well kind of!

To find out more follow the link 

 

The Fairy Float coloured in!

This is the painted version on my black and white drawing, The Fairy Float, it goes with The Pixie Parade as a series. I have a few more to do to complete the carnival.

Sorry that was just to test linking my blog to facebook actually worked - and it does, yay.

i'm just testing this

Chorlton Arts Festival Christmas Craft Market.

 Next Saturday I will be at the Chorlton Arts Festival Christmas Craft Market.

There will be toys, jewelery, artwork, cards, decorations, cakes & much more. If it is anything like the craft fair the Arts Festival have in the summer it will be full of some impressive talent!

It's at St Clements Church and starts at 11am till 4pm Saturday 28th of November.

Manchester Christmas Market

I have just spent a lovely four days selling my creative wares at the first week of the Manchester Christmas Markets. It seems to have spread across the whole city and is looking very pretty and magical.

We met lots of lovely and interesting people and it was nice to meet people that enjoyed my artwork so a big thank you to everyone who liked it. 

It would have been nice to do every weekend in the run up to Christmas  but with 3 year old Ollie in tow I think it would be a bit much to feed him pannini's and babycinos for breakfast dinner and tea for more than one long weekend!

It was slightly embarrassing to have to explain that my web address was actually my blog and you couldn't buy my work on-line because I just hadn't gotten around to doing one. No excuse when my brother in-law has been offering to build one for a year or more. I shall be fixing that lack of website shortly (3 months I think/hope). 

I haven't been to my blog for so long they have changed the interface and I don't know how to work it.

I should be coming to the end of my confinement soon though (the sick part of being pregnant) so I may even post some art, I have two new pictures.

The Fairy Float

This is a sketch from a whole batch I did a while ago called The Fairy Float. I recently redrew it and soon it will be time to start painting. I had better hurry up because I have about 15 sketches yet to paint and a backlog forming in my brain. For now though I will post the revised Fairy Float.

Oh my poor abandoned blog! I think I must have a bit of creative burnout, that's my excuse anyway. I do have a a couple of pictures to post in a week or two once I've given myself a bit of a kick up the bottom.

Next week I'll be...

My second craft fair will be at the Canal side Food and Craft Market 2009, it's on the 20th and the 21st of June but I will only be there with all my art on Sunday the 21st 11am-4pm Town Wharf, Trent & Mersey Canal, Middlewich.

I've never been before but it's part of the Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival 2009 which a friend of mine sometimes clog dances at with her mom, small world!