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Fundraisers
You’ve most likely seen the devastating effects of the huge bushfires hitting Australia at the moment. We are all crushed and depressed seeing the images of the wiped out houses, bushland, and injured and killed wildlife. They estimate over a BILLION animals have perished. Like many artists and businesses I’ve been doing what I can.…
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A bit of a delayed review of 2017…
2017 was such a big year for my work – I wanted to make a note for myself for some of the new illustration projects that really made my year… Birds – I loved creating little watercolours for sale on Instagram, and this lead to new things like prints and bird pins (more on those…
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Hullo!
Oh my poor bloggy, I used to write on you so much, but now you’ve been replaced by my daily Instagram postings! Some of the recent posts… new book characters, more and more birds, art gifts from friends and more. If you are on there, come say hello – I’m @jessesmess xx OH and today,…
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The Portfolio Project… And my 2017 plans.
Over on Instagram, I’ve joined some wonderful artists in a Christmas celebration and been drawing away some themes for the month, from puddings to pine trees. (Check out @the_portfolio_project). Our last theme was polar bear, and I create this process video as a reminder to myself on my plans for next year… yes, there are…
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MATS Children’s Book Course
Over the past five weeks I’ve taken an intensive children’s course via the great team at Make Art That Sells. This course was my favourite topic – children’s books (!) and was taught by the lovely Lilla Rogers and very knowledgable art director Zoe Tucker. It was very exhausting but fantastic to be learning new skills…
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Mixed Updates
It’s been busy times here, I’m working on a kids book and other client projects, doing a children’s book course and as a result, the studio (and perhaps my mind) is a bit of a mess! Rather than break down project by project, here’s some images from projects and more updates can be read in…
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Erstwilder Spring Range
The good folk at Erstwilder have released another range of brooches I worked on and they make me happy! My brief was cats and a couple of birds, and apparently Rebel Rebel (aka Bowie cat) is going great guns, along with Puss in Books and Peace Dove. You can find them all at Erstwilder.
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Goodnight Woods
So excited to receive foreign editions of this cute little board book and decal set I worked on, Goodnight Woods. Published by The Five Mile Press and out in Australia in August.
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Bootcamp
I’ve just finished the last assignment of the MATS Bootcamp – another great collection of projects, has been super fun. Here’s all my assignments! Varied in medium, but I think maybe just maybe the style is getting more consistent even when I don’t realise it is…
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Wreaths
A relaxing project, building layers of watercolours and doing a digital ikebana – arranging them into wreaths – and sticking in tiny tiny birds.