Catherine Campbell

frankie blankie...

Here is a magical quilt thought up by Frankie magazine and created by quite a few different contributors including myself. My drawing of a wintery hooded lady is up there in the far right panel. I happen to know my picture was embroidered by the very talented Kirsty of Kootoyoo because I randomly stumbled across a work in progress shot on her blog. I'm sure she's glad I didn't put in too many tiny lines. Mel Stringer and Beci Orpin also have squares on the quilt. It is now up for grabs via the Franke website and the winning bid will be donated to the Salvation Army. Have a look here if you're interested:

www.frankie.com.au

benconservato...

 

Benconservato is another name for Emma Kidd, an artist I like very much. I met Emma in person at the last Finders Keepers market in Sydney and we have recently been hatching a plan for some collaborative work. I think Emma's work is expressive and messy and beautiful and noisy and free. I got to thinking, I wonder if cool things could be achieved by combining our styles on the one page to make a picture.

We are starting off small for now with one drawing begun by each of us and then sent to the other to finish.

Progress shall be charted on this here blog and hopefully from small beginnings grand things may happen!

ML4U gulf restoration fundraiser...

Meighan over at My Love For You has set up a most excellent thing! She has collected a large group of artists to donate their art and 100% of the money made from sales will be donated to the Gulf Restoration Network. I have donated one of my limited edition prints, if you are interested in taking a look you can find it right here:

myloveforyou.bigcartel.com

 

Definitely take a look at all the work on offer, Meighan has worked super hard to get this up and running and it is for a great cause.

myloveforyou.bigcartel.com

Thank you

billabong...

Yesterday I got a parcel in the post... it was kinda exciting. I made a t-shirt with Billabong! If I could time travel to 1992 and tell my 13 year old self that there would one day be a Billabong t-shirt with my picture on it, I would have thought that was pretty rad. The best part... they named it after me! It's the Catherine Tee...

 

They have it available in stores and right here.

colouring in...

I almost forgot to mention this, but I was just over at Caitlin's blog looking at a beautiful colouring-in book put together by Yael Frankel, and it reminded me. 

Small Magazine, who provide some of my favourite online gazing, have released a colouring-in book based on all the 'small draw' contributions from previous issues. I'm in there as you can see below (right next to my all time favourite Jen Corace!). I'm sure it would make a little person very happy, if you are interested you can pick one up right here:

smallmagazine.etsy.com

 

Oh I just sat in my own little world for a moment thinking about all the colouring-in books in my life. I used to love colouring-in books so much. The ones on nice white paper with sharp black lines, not the ones on cheap newsprint style paper that made your texta bleed... yuk. Ultimate colouring-in book child snob I was.

surf...

I finished the board for Billabong this week, it is currently on show at their Design for Humanity event in Sydney. I now know that a surfboard is a very nice surface to draw on.

billabong...

Look what arrived on my doorstep this morning! Billabong sent it to me and I will be painting it over the next couple of days and sending it back for their Design for Humanity event.

It's a really beautiful object, it's so smooth and well... I want to keep it and go and lie on it in the sea.

Nope, I'm just going to paint it.

poketo available...

Just a little note to say that my (super cute and very affordable) Poketo wallet is available right 

here

if you would like something pretty to look at when spending your cash in 2009!

poketo...

Poketo is coming to Australia and I can't quite believe that there will exist a Poketo wallet with my artwork on it! I think over the last couple of years I have looked at their website a thousand and one times, as most of my favourite artists in the world have made Poketo wallets.

Here is a tiny little sneak peek at what the wallet will look like so start saving your pennies and come along to Robio at 73 Gertrude St Fitzroy on Friday 7th November. I have a feeling Poketo know how to have a good party so it should be lots of fun.

kingbrown and a grand plan...

Today I was sent some photos by the lovely Brooke from Kingbrown Magazine, so I thought I'd put them up for show and tell. They are from the launch of Issue 3 in a big warehouse in Perth. Like the Melbourne launch, everyone was given a wooden bottle to work on...

And this is me...

Also, I have to share half a secret, a little while ago one of my favourite artists contacted me with a grand plan... a year long collaboration spanning two continents, that will hopefully see the creation of lots of art while also documenting something we both share a great love of. Ok I'm being cryptic I know but I can't reveal all until everything is set and ready to go. It'll be exciting I promise... ok, exciting if you like lovely paper... and blogs... and adventures...

paperquilts...

It's the middle of the night and I can't sleep... I think I'm too excited, it is only four more sleeps until we leave for Japan!

Yesterday I received a lovely little package of papers in the mail from a very inspiring artist by the name of Dawbis. A while ago I signed up for her paperquilt project and even though I have decided to wait until I get back from Japan, I'm quite excited to get started. Here is a little peek at my paper selection...

doctor vee...

I have made a little zine in collaboration with Dr. V (El Temerario) and it is now up and ready to show. I decided to make a little book out of my 'Searching for Romantic Icecream Moments' and the great part about it is that you can download a high quality pdf version, print it out and assemble it for yourself!

So if you're in search of eating icecream romantically head over to Dr. V and look for the magic link...