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Jelena Perisic II

May 11, 2015, 10:00 pm
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Jelena Perisic's Baltic sea creatures showing us the error and horror of our ways, anthropomorphizing the creatures to look like humans and also the humans to look like the creatures they are mistreating.
"The sea world moves, transforms and travels in a particularly fluid way. Due to the richness of layers and freedom of expression it allows, as well as it's direct connection to water, the medium of watercolour was the ideal choice to visually tell the story about the life of the sea creatures."Jelena Perisic
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Dunja Schandin I

May 12, 2015, 10:00 pm
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Dunja Schandin is a German paper mache artist and puppet maker, based in Mannheim, who has been increasing animating her sculptures with a simple kinetic mechanisms, including flying seagulls and cranes that have a delicate, fragile beauty.
You can see youtube video's of Dunja's kinetics on her channel here, her sculptures here and her shop here.
Thank you Mary X
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Dunja Schandin II

May 13, 2015, 4:00 am
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Preetika Rajgariah

May 13, 2015, 10:00 pm
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These are part of a series of works called 'migration' by Preetika Rajgariah I thought they were very abstract, ethereal watery washes on blank landscapes shaped only by the shape of the crowds.
In times where people are drowning in the Mediterranean trying to get to a better life, these pieces devoid of the individual are haunting and interesting. People have always moved searching for food, water sustenance and now these movements in our time of transport, technology and equipment are still as perilous and are getting more restricted than in ancient times.
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Cardboard Drawing, Cardboard Printing.

May 14, 2015, 10:00 pm
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My colleague Douglas Kelso did a project with the students, where they made drawings in cardboard by scraping away the top layer of paper to reveal the corrugation beneath.


These are really effective, while they were on the wall I began to think of their potential for printmaking. Douglas agreed I could sacrifice his demonstration piece to experiment with and it worked.
Make your cardboard drawing as above, cutting with a scalpel and scraping away the paper surface.
You can then roll it with relief printing ink or even acrylic paint and print.
You get different effects with different densities of cardboard, the direction of the grain and how thorough you are at scraping away the paper layer.


Above: are student prints, from the top: Lee Hutchison, Andy Crichton and below Douglas Kelso's Che


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Getting animated

May 15, 2015, 10:00 pm
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It is coming to the end of the academic year and I am going to be sad to say goodbye to everyone as they go off and continue their studies elsewhere.
As a goodbye project it was decided that we would make an animation. We thought that sea creatures would be most appropriate as we have had a marine themed painting project, here are some of the results.
Now for many hours of editing to put it all together and add the terrible noise/singing we produced as the sound track.


Images from the top: Leslieann Tibbert, Natasha Younes, Colin Cameron, Lee Hutton, Tiffani Ferrier, Leslieann Tibbert, Andy Crichton, and animating Leslieann Tibbert and Ayesha Montador.
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Cardboard Printing II

May 16, 2015, 11:23 pm
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 Another example of a cardboard print, this time from Richard McGlachlin.

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Tweedle Dum, Tweedle Dee and a Worm

May 17, 2015, 10:00 pm
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Often requests come in for Kite making instructions following my Easter Kites of 2012.
This weekend has been blustery and I have had family staying, so before our walk we made kites.


Here are the instructions 





1. Lay out your paper for the main body of the kite I use a snake kite pattern that you can adapt and make into anything.2. Bend your bamboo into an arch shape and masking tape onto your paper (with little pieces of tape, this is temporary).

3 Make a cross of two pieces of bamboo top to bottom side to side within the curve of the arch and put a further piece across the bottom.

4. Cut the paper with about a 2cm border around the arch (enough to fold over the bamboo) and under the bottom.

5. Cut little snips in the edge of this edge towards the bamboo so that you can smoothly fold it over the bamboo.

6. Fold and glue these over the curved edge of the bamboo arch and fold over the bottom edge.

Place and glue a rectangle of paper over the cross in the center.

7. When this is dry you make a stirrup a small length of your string or wool that you tie above and below the rectangle.

8. Decorate as you like (they do work better with a tail of some sort).

9. Make a cardboard reel to wrap your string wool around and tie onto the stirrup string at an angle as illustrated in picture (7).

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Martina Vanda

May 18, 2015, 10:00 pm
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Martina Vanda's work was exhibited at Bologna Illustrators Exhibition 2015 featuring these lively, exciting scenes of crowds at the theatre from her book; 'Tout Les Soirs'.
Below is a further theatre illustration and detail by Martina for 'ROMA SUONA ROM- Teatro Argentina'.



Martina's practice also includes wonderful ceramic works.
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Natalie Pudalov I

May 19, 2015, 10:04 pm
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Natalie Pudalov's illustrations look like they have been drawn on old found books and papers, there is an age and patina to them, they look loved, lived in and inviting with their whispered secrets of layered  pictures and text.
These illustrations are from 'Letters to a Blue Dog' and were selected for the Illustrators Exhibition at Bologna this year.
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Mariana Ruiz Johnson

May 20, 2015, 10:00 pm
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A wordless jewel of a  book imagining events 'While you sleep' by Argentinian illustrator Mariana Ruiz Johnson. Mariana's illustrations were the winning  illustrations of the 2015 Silent Book Contest at Bologna Children's Book Festival. They are rich with colour and detail like a summer night sky full of stars, the colours are vivid and the story keeps you running through the pages wondering what is going to happen.
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Heinz Kasper

May 21, 2015, 10:00 pm
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Throngs of people flocked to the beach in Kinghorn in Fife last night excited to see the work of Austrian artist Heinz Kasper. Heinz works with light and colour in many forms including theatre, musical events, galleries, industrial and urban environments.

 Heinz is currently an artist in residence at the Robert Callender International Residency for Young Artists, sea loft in Kinghorn and was experimenting with light in the environment.
Last night was a prelude, an experiment, and I am looking forward to seeing how his work develops during his residency.
I hope that we will be treated to a spectacular event later in the year.
"Heinz Kasper is dedicated to exploring light in relation to colour, form and environment as a medium of creative expression. Aside from his light design activities in the spheres of performing arts, exhibitions and architecture, the oeuvre of Heinz Kasper also includes abstract colour compositions and digitally reprocessed photographic pieces."


 Above: The Sylvan Gate, Jerusalem project for the 2013 festival of lights.
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Catarina Sobral II

May 22, 2015, 10:00 pm
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I almost removed the hedgehog illustration (third down) from this post but then thought again, as this particular element reminded me of Tove Jansson's Monin illustrations with its bold colour and use of silhouette.
This is the beautiful work of Portuguese illustrator, animator and graphic designer Catarina Sobral. This book anthropomorphised the land and the seas enigmatically and delightfully pulls you into the story of 'La Serena Y Los Gigantes Enamorados' (The Mermaid and The Enamoured Giants). A reinterpretation of  the legend of Praia da Rocha a story that attempts to explain the rock formations at Da Rocha on the Portuguese coast. A lovely story about the sea and the mountain both falling in love with a mermaid. Catarina's works were exhibited at the Bologna Childrens Illustration Exhibition this spring.




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Laura Carlin III

May 23, 2015, 10:00 pm
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'A World of Your Own' by Laura Carlin a perfect Sunday world, a world of wistful thoughts and daydreams, a day of contemplation . . . enjoy.
"If you were creating a world of your own, what would it look like? Would you build your house out of brick – or out of jelly? Would it be on the ground or in a tree? Would your shops sell envelopes and sweets – or shoes for superheroes? Would you ride a train to town, or a dinosaur?" Laura Carlin
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Yoo Na Lee

May 24, 2015, 10:00 pm
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Starting the week with a charming illustration, 'Hide and Seek' by Korean illustrator Yoo Na Lee who completed her MA in illustration at Brighton University last autumn.
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Signe Kjær Pedersen

May 25, 2015, 10:00 pm
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Sandra Poirotte

May 26, 2015, 10:00 pm
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Another treasure that I found in Bologna was Sandra Poiotte's 'Madame Cerise ou le trésor des pies voleuses' is a loving story about a husband's solution to his wife's dementia.  A tender story about a very difficult subject, Mr Cherry attempts to help his wife remember by making a memory dress with pockets to keep the important things safe in.

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Anna Doherty I

May 27, 2015, 10:00 pm
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It is degree show time again and yesterday I managed to get to see the Dundee Degree Show with a group of students. So I will share a few posts featuring some of the work I saw. Starting with the delicate watercolour and pencil illustrations of Anna Doherty from her detective story book 'Who Stole The Lasagna?'
"The book is centered around a stolen lasagne, and the object of the book is to help Jason the pig figure out which of his animal friends is the thief! The reader is given a selection of clue cards, deduction cards and suspect photos to guide them through narrative to help them discover the culprit. All the cards are interactive – through doors that can opening, or spinning wheels, or finger puppet elements – to make the story more engaging and involving for children."Anna Doherty

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Anna Doherty II

May 28, 2015, 10:00 pm
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Lifting the roof and peeping into the imaginary homes of Anna Doherty's 'Behind Closed Doors' lovely slab built ceramic dwellings that open out into the stories of the inhabitants is a great treat like opening presents.
"I am very interested in telling stories outwith the usual book format and finding new ways that the reader can interact with the narrative."
"Behind Closed Doors is also an interactive book experience based around Baile Nan Sgeulachd Dhìomhair, a town made of colourful ceramic houses and full of inhabitants who all have things/stories that they'd rather keep to themselves.The story is read through lifting the roofs off ceramic houses and inside each house – attached to the roof -  is a short story about its occupant printed on fabric. Each of the stories lead to another by mentioning another coloured house within the story, but as there are several houses of each colour, the story can be read in almost any order. I liked how this made the story not only interactive through physically lifting the house’s roofs, but also in that reader has a choice of which house to read next so that the order that it is read in is different every time."Anna Doherty

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Alison Soye I

May 29, 2015, 10:00 pm
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Alison Soye's illustration degree show treated us to a collection of ceramic plates decorated as food, installed in an exciting wall of 'Food For Thought', resembling a pin ball game.
Alison's work often focuses on food with wonderful illustrations of recipes and ingredients.
"The piece is essentially a celebration of food; bright and playful plates set against the drawn background are appealing to all ages and encourage the question of what, where, and how, we enjoy our food.I wanted the plates to be functional as well as aesthetic pieces of kitchenware, bringing people together around the table - encouraging conversations about, and engagement with, our food."Alison Soye
I love the way that ceramics still finds a place across the disciplines in Duncan of Jordanstone despite the decision, of all Scottish art colleges, to remove it from the curriculum several years ago. I still feel this was a grave mistake, a great loss to the culture of Scotland and a reduction of the skill and career options of  its creative community.
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