Frosty spiderweb...

Beautiful Edinburgh...

I went to Edinburgh the other week with some of my course mates and I took these pictures whilst at the top of Calton Hill. It was such a beautiful sunny morning you could just see for miles. Edinburgh is such a lovely city, I sure would love to live here one day.

Biggest strawberries ever...

As the sun starts to come out it's slowly feeling more and more like summer. Yey! So last weekend I decided to treat myself to a punnet of strawberries from the local market. They were absolutely delicious! Not only that but two of them were HUGE! I had the photo up on my computer to put on my blog to show these beauties but when I came back, it had been defaced by a certain Stephen Arthur thank you very much! But I thought I'd put his version on here! The strawberry on the right is a normal sized strawberry and the the ones on the left were the two beasts! Nom nom nom! Summer is here!

Dracula ah ah ah...

Ok so the current brief I'm working on is to produce 5 illustrations based on my favourite novel. Well, for starters I love reading so it was quite hard to choose which book to do. I decided to pick Dracula by Bram Stoker, a classic and something that I knew would be challenging to illustrate! I borrowed my housemates copy and whizzed through all 421 pages of it in two days phew! I wanted to do something completely different to my normal style so started playing around with silhouettes. Having them stuck down made the scenes too flat and lifeless. I decided to take a different approach and went into our little pokey cupboard for photographing and set about hanging the pieces I had cut out up.

I suspended the silhouettes from a pole with invisible thread (brilliant stuff) and then shone an OHP onto them. Straight away the illustrations were brought to life and I was able to play around with the arrangements and more excitingly, the shadows ooooo spooky! I spent 3 whole days setting up and taking photographs and am so so proud of the outcomes. Here are some of my favourite images so far. Enjoy! But watch your neck!

Best New Year's Eve...EVER!

I've just got back from Disneyland Paris where me and my mum spent the whole of New Year's weekend. It had to be the best I have ever had! Two whole days in the park and welcoming in 2011 stood next to the Disney castle with sparkling fireworks raining down...it doesn't get much better than that. Hopefully 2011 will be as magical!

"Walking in a winter wonderland..."

I came out this morning to find these on my drive! They were so cute I had to take a photograph. That's one thing I love about snow is seeing which visitors have been in your garden especially the little foot prints that birds leave behind.