Annie Brundrit

Mixed Media Landscapes Workshop in Bungay

Thanks to The Art Trading Company for hosting and to the lovely participants who joined me for my Mixed Media Landscapes workshop
We had a creative and productive day - I can't believe it was more than two weeks ago now.
It was one of the most enjoyable workshops I have had the pleasure to facilitate

Here are a few photos of the first half of the day, before my phone died and I realised I had forgotten to bring my charger..!

Many hands working hard, at play, here. Everyone remembered to bring their open minds, which enabled them to relax and enjoy exploring...!

I took several photos of the process that participants went through to 'grow' their artwork...(probably why the phone died)

Here are some of the early results coming up:

So, just waiting for emails to come in with more photos of the rest of the landscapes created - everyone said they'd send me some.....

Atelier Bingo

Adele Favreau and Maxime Prou work together at Atelier Bingo.
They produce bright happy colourful prints and other abstract illustration, surface pattern - including on ceramics - and graphic design

Atelier Bingo is just outside Cholet, a small town near Nantes in north west France.

On their website there are a few photos of the studio space - a lovely bright composition of colour and shapes - just like their work!

In a fresh semi rural setting too, by the looks of things...

See more examples of Atelier Bingo at their fun website HERE

have you seen the work of.....?

it's about time i got back to the blog

i shall use this space to mostly share the artists, designers and illustrators work from which i get much enjoyment and learn

so today is as good a time as any to get going

elise gravel

on her sweet about page, elise gravel says:

"I was born in Montreal in 1977 and started to draw not long after my birth. In kindergarten I was popular because I could draw princesses with long, spiral curls. Then in high school, girls asked me to draw their dream guys in their agendas. I became very talented at drawing muscles and chest hair, which came in handy later on when I illustrated my book Le Grand Antonio. On the other hand, I’m still pretty bad at knowing how to use an agenda properly.

Later on, I studied graphic design at CEGEP*, during which I figured out that I wanted to do illustration. After my first book, Catalogue des Gaspilleurs, I wrote and illustrated more than 30 others. One of my books, La clé à molette, won the Governor General’s Literary Award in the illustration category, and since then I’ve become really bigheaded and brag all the time. &nbsp

I live in Montreal with my two daughters, my husband, my cats, and a few spiders. I’m currently working on diverse projects for publication in Quebec, English-speaking Canada, and in the United States. My books have been translated into a dozen languages. I’m hoping to live a long life so that I can make many, many more books, because I still have many, many more ideas."

Her work is charming and fun with a love for the often misrepresented and seemingly ugly creatures so beloved of and intriguing for little humans...

it seems though that quite a few of these feisty little characters of elise gravel's actually represent her readers - they just look like the emotional hot beds that are small children - in their full spectrum of types and beings...

gravel is prolific and obviously just can't stop doing what she loves best

interesting colour palette - not the predictable primaries and quite often a restricted set, giving her illustrations a distinctive voice

i follow her on instagram and get much joy from seeing things like ballerina monsters pop up!

February Workshop At The Sainsbury Centre

Enjoyed a busy workshop - twice - on Friday last week

It was the theme of Surfaces: Pattern and Texture

Students looked for patterns in the art and artefacts of the collection at SCVA, making lovely well observed drawings of details and repeated shapes

Next they used their pencils and erasers only to create the different textures on the surfaces of items they found

Once back in the studio, the students worked in pairs to double up and 're-draw' their shapes in collage, creating interesting textures

Finally they worked individually to make rubbings of their textures - back to monochrome after all that colour!

They chose their collages that transposed to rubbings with the most interesting and successful results and repeated these to create patterns through texture