Taranaki adventuring

We spent last weekend in New Plymouth making a video for our newish band Mermaid and Mariner. A possible location was this surreal hilltop with a fountain, a carillon, an observatory and a fabulous mountain view, but we ended up making the video beside the mighty Tasman Sea.  You can watch it here!

And then we heard about a shipwreck in Oakura, so went to investigate that...

...and decided that we'd found the location for our next video!

Fished for my wish

Just a funny little drawing of a sardine that I did on my lunch break the other day.  Thinking I might turn it into a print or something.  "I fished for my wish" is what we used to say when we played "Go Fish" and got the card we were hoping for from the pickup pile...did you say that?

Featured

I'm lucky enough to be the featured seller on the Felt website this week and there's an interview with me here.  Felt are having a giveaway of some of my wares so if you'd like to enter, pop over to the Felt website and leave a comment after the interview.  Good luck!

Team effort

Mr Millicent Crow and I made this poster last week, for our show at the Inch Bar in Dunedin which is coming up soon.  Next week!  I drew the pictures and Sam put it all together.  Any Dunedin recommendations welcome, we're going to catch up with some old friends, have some nice coffee at Modaks, do a bit of op shopping (hopefully for some nice old woollen blankets), go to Tunnel Beach or maybe Seacliff, and marvel at the beautiful Victorian houses!

New in the Felt shop

Last weekend we had the wonderful, busy, Auckland Art and Craft Fair (more on that later), this weekend I am marooned on the couch with a sprained ankle, and taking advantage of having time at home to update my Felt shop.  So I've now got a bunch of my new prints that I had at the Fair in my Felt shop if you'd like to take a gander!  Including this tea rex, who I'm pleased to say got many giggles at the Fair!

Wish upon a star

I've been spending hours hunched over the computer colouring this typographical drawing (you can see it without colour here) and I think it's nearly ready to send off to the printers.  I've been working on my handwriting on another project too, a facebook banner for our new band, Mermaid and Mariner.  

I'll hopefully be bringing my new print along to the Auckland Art & Craft Fair this Saturday...fingers crossed that I can get it printed on time! I'm wondering what other wishing superstitions I could have added, do you have any?

Typographical solutions

 I've been working on a print based on all the things I superstitiously wish on, and I finished inking it this afternoon.  I was working on it in the cafe by my work the other day on my lunch break...when the waiter brought me my coffee he asked me if I was working on "typographical solutions."  Um, yes, I guess I am.  Sounds better than sitting around drawing!