Tag: Scotland

„Stormy Afternoon“ now in the shop!

An illustration of an old brown woman reading a book on a futon-style bed, wrapped in blankets. She's in an attic-room, there's a round window in the wall with a cat looking out into the rainy landscape with towering clouds and a lighthouse. Inside it's cosy, with tea and candles.

Hello, #fedifriends ^__^

I’m experimenting with a #Woocommerce #shop atm and „Stormy Afternoon“ is one of the products now available:

https://shop.jfml.eu/shop/browse-by-illustration/stormy-afternoon/

Still figuring a lot of it out but I’d be happy if you’d take a look 💖

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Colobee 2024

My POV at the Colony of Artists: a table in the foreground with postcards and stickers on them looking out into a room with prints in frames on an easel and on a sofa, there's two small tables with prints and comic / children's books as well.
A front view of my stall with lots of stickers and post and greeting cards.
Close-up of the table with the comic (The Shadow, two people standing by a lake in front of a ruined city on a mountainside) and children's book (Fox of Friendship, a girl and a fox flying above a nightly city) from the last picture.

I had so much fun at #Colobee last weekend! 🎉

Just like the last years it was so good and heart-warming talking to people and seeing them react to my and my friend Monika’s work.

Thanks so much to everybody who came round and to Kat and the other organisers for the huge amount of work needed to pull off an event as this! 💖

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Colobee24 is this weekend (Sept 14/15 2024)! 🎉

Photo of some of the stuff I will have on offer, three framed prints, greeting cards, stickers and postcards.
Nika Novich's surreal digital collage „Soul Transit“: people in suits standing in a dark wood with a giant owl-like creature that also might be a carriage, there's a full moon.
My illustration „Cycle Outing“ in greens and pinks of a person taking a brake from cycling the rather steep climbs in a Scottish landscape with mountains, a loch and woodlands.
My illustration „Cycle Outing“ in greens and pinks of a person taking a brake from cycling the rather steep climbs in a Scottish landscape with mountains, a loch and woodlands.

Colobee 🐝 aka Colony of Artists, the yearly #Abbeyhill open door / #artfair is happening this weekend, Sat 14 / Sun 15, 11am – 6pm in #Edinburgh! 🎉

Come round for over 90(!?) #artists showing their work in their homes and gardens:

https://www.colonyofartists.co.uk

I’m venue 42 with our friend Nika Novich who is doing amazing digital #collages, check out #colobee for more stuff.

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Colobee 24 is soon!

A table with all the things I'm going to sell: prints, comics, children's book, greeting and postcards and stickers.
A bunch of framed prints arranged on a grey sofa, the prints feature mostly landscapes in blue and pink.
A lot of prints on the floor, unframed, some of them in (biodegradable) wrapping.

Scottish friends! It’s less than a month til it’s time again for Colobee 🐝 also known as Colony of Artists, your yearly art-fair extravaganza:

https://www.colonyofartists.co.uk

If you’re in the area, mark your calendars for Sat 14 / Sun 15 of September ^__^

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Sunny Day on Harris

Illustration of a traditional Scottish cottage on a flowering meadow (Machair), surrounded by the sea. It's a beautiful day, there's sheep and birds and mountains in the background.

„Sunny Day on Harris“

This has been waiting patiently in my unfinished-pile to be rediscovered ^__^

I love summer in the #OuterHebredis and the #Machair* is such a thing of beauty!

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machair

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The Selkie / Winter Morning

Vector illustration of a young, white child with long, braided hair standing on the edge of a lake in a snowy landscape. In the lake is a mermaid-creature with a seal-tail. The selkie is almost completely underwater only the top of their head is above the surface. There is an eerie glow coming from the bottom of the lake.
The same illustration but it's not snowing.

I really enjoyed #JonKlassen’s #book „The Skull“, so here is a #hommage with a #Scottish twist* ^__^

The #braids almost killed me, I’ve struggled with #drawing braids before and can totally understand when people just draw a bunch of wonky circles (like Klassen does ^__^) but this time I wanted to understand how to do it and it probably took twice as long as all the rest of the illustration. I think the dramatic shadows on them fit the eery glowing light that’s coming from the bottom of the Selkie lake, no idea how I’d do it in „normal“ circumstances …

Not sure about the #snow, I personally love it but I got #feedback on another piece that it makes it the composition very restless, which I totally see.

Snow or no snow, what do you think?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkie

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Cosmic Cow

Vector drawing in dark greens and blues of a night-scene with a highland cow on a small peninsular. The cow's reflection in the water reflects the milky way in the sky above. There's a crow sittig on the cow's back but in the reflection it is somehow in flight.

„Cosmic Cow“, first #illustration of the new year 🎉

A magic #cow and it’s time-bending #crow-companion enjoying the night on Harris ^__^

I like #HighlandCows a lot, they’re so chill and cool. This was probably inspired by John Maher’s night photography of the #OuterHebrides:

ISLE OF HARRIS, OUTER HEBRIDES

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Character-Sketches

An illustration of five people, all rather fat, old and/or bulky, done in (digital) ink with blue shade.

Hallo ^ _ ^ Instead of bringing you something #ColonyOfArtists-related (which is in less then a month in #Edinburgh, #Scotland!) …

Here are a few sketches of older women main characters. Some day I want to do a #ChildrensBook or #Comic about an #old #adventurer who has lived #TheQuietLife for a few decades and goes on another #quest. Mh, that sounds like a #TerryPratchett #novel doesn’t it?