Blinding people with science

carmenland — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:51:10 +0000

Hello! Once again I’m here to assure you that I’m still alive. I’ve been drawing scientists! Here’s one:

Can you guess who it is? (No peeking!) I’ve also been drawing other scientists, along with a giant and a dwarf, all for a new planetarium show at the Centre for Life in Newcastle.

World Heritage Day

carmenland — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:29:44 +0000

Recently, I’ve been working on some artwork for World Heritage Day on 18 April 2011. There are currently events being organised at each of the five sites in Scotland.

Personally, I like Orkney the best. More to come!

Wibble

carmenland — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:19:14 +0000

Hello! It may well seem to you like I forget about this blog for long stretches at a time, but in reality I am just carefully building up the excitement and tension, before whalloping you with another piece of mind-boggling information.

I know, of course, that we’re already well into February, but I shall tell you about my new year’s resolutions anyways. This year they’re all in your favour! I shall be bringing you (is the plan…) a freebie a month. I failed in January, but ‘coz we’re flexible ‘n stuff, we’ll just extend this to January 2012! Aren’t you thrilled? You must be thrilled!

So, without further ado, here’s the first one.

Aside from that, here’s a doodle.

I own a Moleskine sketchbook now, which is what happens when you send non-cheapskates on errands to buy sketchbooks. Might do that more often.

Some early Christmas presents

carmenland — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:15:09 +0000

Well, that’s one down, two to go before we can all descend into home-Christmas madness. In celebration of todays quite happy Magpie Market, here’s some gift tags. Print’em, cut’em out and hang’em on stuff!

Also downloadable as a handy sheet of 12 tags.

Happy Winter!

I’m still alive!

carmenland — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:01:29 +0000

The last couple of months have been taking up entirely by moving madness and creative craziness, and I’m only slowly getting re-acquainted with the wonders of the interweb, and of course I can’t help noticing that it’s high-time for some Christmas shopping!

Fortunately there are quite a few things happening, should you still happen to find yourself a monster or two short.

Flux are still selling my Minimonster Wheat Bags, of course, but now the recently opened Artisans Emporium up in Bruntsfield have some of my other monsters as well as Kids’ T-shirts on offer.

All of these and more will also be available at the forthcoming Magpie Market,
on Sunday 12 December,
12-5pm at the Lot, 4-6 Grassmarket, Edinburgh,

as well as the Out Of the Blue Christmas Market
on Saturday, 18 December, 11-5pm,
The Drill Hall, 36 Dalmeny Street, Edinburgh.

In addition, some of my work will also be included in the Craft Reactor Members Showcase Exhibition, which will be on from 16 – 22 December at the Patriothall Gallery, 1D Patriothall, off Hamilton Place, Stockbridge, Edinburgh, EH3 5AY.

So, lots to do! Maybe see you there!

Freebies!

carmenland — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:03:10 +0000

Ooooh… I like me a nice bookplate. I don’t know why it’s never so far ocurred to me to come up with my own (I’ve always stuck to stickers or just handwriting my name in the book), but when I saw a link to this nice little tutorial on how to paste a bookplate into a book on the Craft: Blog, I dropped everything and got my pens out.

So here’s the result. And of course I’m happy to share the love, so feel free to downloade them singly or ready to print as a sheet of nine (about 18x25cm, so should go on either letter or A4 size paper).

The Naughty Monsters in the Sky

carmenland — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:08:44 +0000

At the moment I’m working on some illustrations for The Centre for Life in Newcastle. They’re going to be part of a new planetarium show for 3-5 year olds – can’t wait to see it! I’m really chuffed to be involved with this, and am really enjoying spending some time as a ‘full time illustrator’. It’s interesting to see a biggish job like this take shape and having to keep track of what I’m doing like a grown-up.

Magpie Market 12 September 2010

carmenland — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:57:47 +0000

On Sunday, there’ll be fun and games (and, in my case, also some monsters) to be had at the Lot in the Grassmarket, at the Magpie Arts & Design Fair.

I’ll be sharing with Madeleine Shepherd (of knitted tentacle fame) who makes amazing stuff out of felt and yarn and other stuff too.

So, as always, come along and bring all your friends!

Magpie Arts & Design Fair
Sunday, 12 September 2010, 12 – 5pm
The Lot
4-6 Grassmarket
Edinburgh
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A little reminder

carmenland — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:28:23 +0000

The Craft Reactor Launch evening will be going down on Tuesday 31 August 2010 at the Glasite Meeting House, 33 Barony Street, Edinburgh. If you’re a crafter and want to know what it’s all about, come along. There’ll be gimmicky biccies and everything!

Fly me to the moon, I need a snack

carmenland — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:18:25 +0000

Work has begun on the aforementioned gig for the planetarium show. Not much so far, just a rough sketch, but I’m quite pleased with it.

My other baby, Craft Reactor, will hold a launch event next Tuesday, 31 August 2010, at the Glasite Meeting House in Barony Street. If you’re wondering what it’s all about, come along from 6pm. There will be cake. ‘Nuff said.