Honeymoon pics

I will resist the temptation to show you ALL of my honeymoon pics. But fyi, in real life, those idyllic photos of palm trees and white sands you've seen on motivational posters and adverts all your life? That's an actual place you can go to. I know, weird right? 

This is my fave because I photographed someone else's photograph. And I'm a bit obsessed with people posing for photos and how weird that actually is. There's a few videos out there like this:

   

 There's a future illustration about this brewing in the back of my head somewhere. 

Idyllic N'est Pas?

 I may also be a little obsessed with mirror sunglasses selfies. It just adds that extra dimension of eliptical narcissism you know?

Oh also I drew some pictures:

Ink and wash isn't it? Because if you spend enough time teaching secondary art, you start thinking like a gcse project and using 'a variety of media'. 

Oh dear. 

Pintar Rapido

So this last weekend I spent a lot of time in Chelsea. I was not looking for cast members of Made in Chelsea tho obviously, or a sneaky reduced designer dress in the sales (hello, have a wedding to pay for thank you). I was doing a location painting of the King's Road as part of the Pintar Rapido event.

As you may have guessed from the name if you're of the latinatelinguity persuasion, it was all about painting fast. Although I am not usually one to spend LONGER than a day on a painting, this is not the norm for fine arty painty types, and the challenge of doing a painting in one day en plein air is I think a fun thing whichever direction you're coming at it. 

As it was one of the hottest days of ever ever, I found myself a decidedly shady spot at the end of Waterloo Square with a cross view of the King's Road. And from 11.30 till around 7pm, with a short break for an egg sandwich and an iced latte, I painted what I saw, with certain allowances for change of light. 

here are some in progress pics, I started with the trees and the bollards, then added light and detail, but it dodn't really come to life till I started to add the greenery. 

I love how much green there is in London right now. 

This is the finished painting, also pictured my banana case. Yeah I like to keep my banana hard in my handbag ok?

The close on 400 paintings created that day in Kensington and Chelsea were all exhibited together on the Sunday, there was a big mix of styles and sizes. The awkwardness of having close on 400 artists angsting over their work and whether it would sell was quite funny tho. I met some interesting people including the very cool Edward Ofosu whose digital paintings are as exciting as his physical ones, and it's not always easy to see which is which. 

My favourite was this piece by J Roh, which my phone photo has not done justice to at all. I like how it is so difinitive in the division of the abstract and the realistic. If that makes sense. And the colours. And that it is the Royal Opera House.

Also, J Roh, is PRACTICALLY my name, 

I mean, I am Jenny from the block. I know where I came from (Henfield)

Parp. I have too many things to blog about 

So. 

This month's top news in pictures?

I drew portraits of people in a caravan covered in Heisenburg's face. I blogged about it here for StoryHands. I don't like Breaking Bad, please send your outraged postcards to...

for a limited time only you can buy some of my pictures on OhhDeer on mobile phone covers (!) iphone and galaxy here, here  and here . Also on some nice Giclee prints here,  here and here and on canvas here 

I made these birthday cards. You can buy them here

I got my sister to get my cat (by association only now really, as I haven't lived with her for many years) to  pick the winner to my pet portrait giveaway. That was cool. Emma won. 

I also did some portraits at a Pop Up Vintage Fair. I might actually blog about that though, COMING SOON ISN'T IT. I might also blog about my wedding invites that I designed for my wedding. 

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I managed to make myself ill last week, predictably, by dashing round London fashion week, then immediately working for 2 days on a Hobbit themed arts workshop for small children, both highly exhausting activities that left me bed ridden by the weekend. I'm a fool to myself it is. Some flu like germs are also to blame, but I prefer to blame myself. Masochistic like that. 

Anyway I have some fashion write-ups, photos and illustrations to share with you. And there will be more to come. For the first time I was armed with a decent camera (lent me by the brilliant Frances) and spent a lot of my time at the shows and exhibitions fiddling with speed and iso and f stops and things I really do not understand, and so less time sketching. I think I prefer sketching. 

But it was nice to come away with my own set of images that I can call my own. Even though it is a bit head f*cky the sheer number of photos that are taken at these events, so there are so many out there with people in the background and those hundreds of moments recorded and pinned down in people's cameras and probably never used anyway. If you know what I mean. 

But also how photographs can never really do these outfits and moments justice. The sheer juiciness of the fabrics, the way they move, the glint of the bling that photos can't capture, not to mention the silly music and posers, the image angst.

Here's some pictures anyway.

live illustration I did at the Lewis and Leigh PR presentation of Claudia Ligari, wearing herself. 

And another live illustration of Eleanor Amoroso. I really enjoyed doing the live drawing, it's definitely my favourite way to attend a fashion party. My write up of the event is on Amelia's Mag here.

  

this illustration is from my write up of Ekaterina Kukhareva and here is a photo from the same - I like this one because the model looks doll like and pained, and no-one is looking at her.

This is my graphical representation of Holly Fulton, I love her a lot, but it was the first show i went to of the weekend and I got no good photos at all. fail me. Write up is here.

these 2 pics are from the Mercedes Benz Kiev Fashion showcase

You see the guy who is asleep? That is what I felt like. Not really. 

Anna Kolomoets, just like this picture. 

Also enjoy this Tom Van Der Borght character, one of many, shall we say, unusual designers showcased by Bloody Gray, my somewhat bitchy write up is here. 

This photo doesn't do justice to Vita Gottlieb's lovely new city poetry dress - but that's life - see my write up of the Felicities presentation I saw it at here.

Also. This. I don't know what this is. Some people think they can just rock up at Somerset House looking interesting and people will photograph them and put them in blogs and stuff. Cheeky. 

That's over with for another season then.