Mr Stag Print by awoodentree

Floral Deer Print

Some lovely new prints from Kirsty at her Folksy shop where she is working solely with art prints and postcards etc

'Panda : Food' Mixed Media Illustration

'Panda : Food' by redroadstudio

Working with mixed media and lovely hand made textured paper for my illustration.  Pandas have to be one of the loveliest creatures on the planet!

Paris Shopping Pattern

Paris Shopping Pattern

Detail of newly uploaded pattern on Redbubble - I've had to start again because I changed my email address.  Didn't quite realise the consequences of this although nearly every website I work on was pretty straight forward except for Redbubble, sigh!

Maria Berrio

Maria Berrio - Dream Gardens

Fresh finds for a new year and I stumbled across Maria Berrio's collage art just the other day. Maria was born in Colombia and now works and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Love her collision of pattern and colour - I'm inspired to get back in to my studio.

new mermaid with tattoos t-shirt

mermaid on zazzle

My thought turned to summer when I was working on this alluring mermaid with the 'come hither' look.  Just wishing our summer here in Scotland would last longer than 2 days!  I've created this homage to old school tattoos for men and women so you can feel in a summer mood.  You can also choose your own t-shirt colour.

Day Of The Dead Commission

Following on from a lovely commission of a sugar skull for the 'Day of the Dead' I decided to have some fun with designing a pattern and skull for zazzle and here's the end result.  I found out that the Day of the Dead or Día de Muertos is a Mexican holiday observed throughout Mexico and around the world in other cultures. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died.

Dogs & Polka Dots Found on Redbubble

Dogs & Polka Dots by redroadstudio

Always great to hear that a piece of your work is being highlighted and it's a double celebration as just a few days before I sold my first accessory on redbubble.  Thank you for highlighting 'dogs and polka dots' as it developed from a commission I was creating for a client who wanted a dog illustration.

REDROADSTUDIO SUMMER TOTE BAGS AT SOCIETY6

CUSTOM TOTE BAGS FOR SUMMER

We can never have enough tote bags especially as we have to pay for any plastic bags in the shops now and a lot of us are thinking more 'green'.  My tote bags are ideal for summer and can brighten up any day with a unique pattern or illustration.  I've also created a PeoplePerHour 'Hourlie' so you can commission me to create a bespoke, individual design especially for you or perhaps a family member or loved one.

Fashion Illustration redroadstudio

Fashion Illustration 

Had a little space between commissions and I fancied working with coloured pencils on an A3 fashion drawing as a wee surprise for someone.  It was well received and, of course, a complete surprise for them.  I love doing that every now and then - I don't think I'm the only one that loves getting a surprise package through the post!

Men's Fashion Brand & Logo

People Per Hour

Lovely working on ideas for menswear as I've only completed 2 projects for them.  One was for Russia and this 'Internal' project was for the UK featuring ink tattoo, skull and typography elements.  All quite different for me so it was something I really enjoyed.

Urban Animal Ink Tattoo Illustration T-Shirt

Modern Tattoo Animal Ink Custom Illustration 

New work on zazzle. I've been working on urban tribal icons mixed with stylised animals for my new T-Shirt design.  Well, it's just a t-shirt at the moment which can be customised with a name, word or expression - that's up to you and allows you to be part of the process too.  It was great fun researching for this and I may create further work.

WWF Panda Auction

Original Panda Illustration

Thank you to the buyer at the auction!  WWF will benefit from it so that really pleases me and just a few more to go with less than a day to put your bid in.  Good luck!  There are four original works up for auction with proceeds to WWF 

Society6 Success

Birdcage & Butterflies

Lost Time Evolution Bird

Lost Time in the Forest Bear

A real flurry of activity with society6 and I found these 3 works being chosen for the society6 shop!  Amazing as 2 of them have only just been published by me.  Thank you society6!!!  So pleased I found my other email and password or I would never have known LOL!

Society6 Risograph Zine Competition

Time Lost - Bear In The Forest

I don't know how I managed to work on so many illustrations for this competition but I think it was because I enjoyed finding out about the risograph process and that spurred me on to try different themes, ideas and techniques that might be successful with the process.  But this is truly the last one and it's all up to the judge(s) now to choose.  I'm now going to create some lovely accessories from this illustration and I'll let you know how things go.

Society6 Competition For Risograph Zine

Seven Ages of Man

I'm so enjoying trying different methods of creating for the risograph zine brief.  I took my inspiration for the them of 'lost time' from ageing and remembered Shakespeare's 'Seven Ages of Man'.  That gave me the starting point for number 4 entry.  So far, the illustration is available as an art print and poster.

Riso Zine Competition Entry #2

Lost Time Birdie : redroadstudio : society6

My 2nd risograph entry (completed 3 so far) on society6 based on the theme of lost time.  I took it literally with a clock losing time and used a gaudy faded vintage elements to the illustration.  I have till the end of the month so you never know I may come up with another ..... I'm thinking about it .....

Riso Zine Competition : Society6

Lost Time Evolution

One of my entries to the Riso Zine Competition on Society6.  I've enjoyed trying out new concepts using the risograph technique and would love to get just one in.   Please feel free to go on to my store and 'like' any of them - any help would be gratefully appreciated!

Pen & Ink Exhibition : Kirkcaldy

Open Tuesday to Saturdays

Some of my work is available for sale till Christmas at the Expression Art Studios, High Street, Kirkcaldy.  I'm also donating 50% from my 'select & donate' section (bottom left of this picture) to the NSPCC Scotland.   Just pop along - if you like anything, please select and donate what you think.

Top 10 Pins on Pinterest (Part 2)

Atelier Versace

Georgio Armani 

Link to illustration

Link to illustration

Grant Cowan

How interesting - the Top 10 on my Pinterest at the moment are all fashion illustrations with over 2,500 pins over the last month WOW!  It will be interesting to view this again at the start of 2015 just out of curiosity.

Top 10 Pins on Pinterest (Part 1)

Myrtle Quillamor #1

Kimberly Robello #2

Silver Ridge Studio

Katherine Asher

Illustrator unknown

So my 'Art of Fashion' board has been storming round Pinterest this month with the top 5 almost reaching 1,000 re-pins!  Fantastic!  It always surprises me what goes viral from my boards but it's really interesting to find out.  If you happen to know who the illustrator for number 5 is - that would be great!  Part deux later!