Catherine Campbell

www.catherinecampbell.net

Hello dear Blog Readers,

If there is anyone out there reading this here old typepad blog, I want to let you know that I've decided to pack up and make the move to my own website.

I recently made the happy discovery that even if I close my account here, my blog will continue to live on (I was under the impression that once I stopped paying my Typepad bills everything would vanish). It might look a little less pretty and I don't think the domain name blog.catherinecampbell.net will work anymore, but for my sake at least I won't lose 7 years of content!

So, if you're reading this through a feeder or keep a link to it somewhere, please do update to the new address:

www.catherinecampbell.net

Most importantly, thank you for hanging out here with me in this little corner of the internet. If you've left me a comment, or possibly many comments over the past 7 years then I think you're excellent. Really truthfully, you are the best. The encouragement I get from this blog is (without a doubt) one of the main reasons why I can battle through my picture-making doubts and insecurities and keep making the stuff I like to make. Big love to you!

Okay, please follow the link above and come for a look see at my new place.

Thank you.

Tales of Summer

Here is another new addition to the shop, I almost didn't finish this garden lady adventurer, however I decided to work through my colour issues and I'm glad I did because she looks quite lovely as a print.

I'm calling this piece Tales of Summer.

myfolklover.etsy.com

I have just added a print set to my shop. These prints have been professionally printed on 100% recycled, heavy weight card stock and each print measures 148mm x 210mm (A5).

It's a sweet deal!

If you would like to take a look, they can be found over here:

myfolklover.etsy.com

Thank you

I'm all about better understanding process at the moment so I was happy to see these pictures created by Jen Corace, my most favourite contemporary illustration hero. To see the progression from her early sketches right up to the finished artwork is a great insight into her process and shows just how much work goes into creating each piece.

You can see more of Jen Corace's sketches here and here, and the final illustrations are on her website: www.jencorace.com

Here is a picture I was working on a while back. I'm looking at this as inspiration for the new pieces I'm currently drawing - some bits of it I like, some I don't (some of the colours are terrible, for example). I have to admit that I'm at my most creatively insecure when it comes to colour! I just don't know how to work out what goes with what. I blogged about it once many years ago and someone commented that it helps to paint one all-over base colour first and work up from there. That did help a lot actually, so if you're still reading my blog lovely commenter, thank you for your advice (I didn't follow it above obviously). Another thing I've noticed when looking at other people's pictures is that a lot of artists seem to choose two main colours and use variations of only these two, perhaps with occasional small highlights of another colour. This is also something I might try.

If you're reading and you have any particular tricks with colour I'd love to hear them!

Found photos from here and there... some of my favourite things capturing other peoples imaginations long before they captured mine.

Here are some progress pictures of a new series I'm currently working on. I'm finally making time to work on my own drawings, just for fun - not for an illustration job or an exhibition, and it feels like such a treat! With these images I've decided to look back on past drawings of mine and continue to work with some themes and symbols that have always resonated with me. Hopefully I will have more to show in the not too distant future...

Dream house.

Photograph by Brian Robinson.
Found: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brian_robinson_nz/

Recently the ceramic artist Ingrid Tufts asked me if I would create some new illustrations for a series of large bowls she is working on. We have worked together before on an illustrated cup and bowl set, a collaboration organised by Craft Victoria (which you can see here and here). I'm so happy with these new pieces, Ingrid creates such beautiful objects!

YANOYA from ShiShi Yamazaki on Vimeo.

Beautiful animation by Shishi Yamazaki (follow the links above to see more).

Found via Carson Ellis.