Ollerina

Here's my new painting, it's called Wood Sprite. I think this one owes a lot to Studio Ghibli, they always have lovely little forest spirits and I love them !!!
I'm going to be doing this one as a limited edition print, I'm having one myself and putting it in a lovely long thin white frame with a cute blue heart hanging from it (I need to stitch it first) For now though I'm out off ink for my printer and waiting until I've plastered our living room, these art skills do come in handy. x

I finished the Halloween painting I was working on. I just love Halloween so there will be more on the way at some point. If I could only focus. I'm obligated to house renovations at the moment and in my spare hour a day I've been doing a lot of writing, oh and some embroidered cushions which I'll blog when finished as they are good! Oh my poor artwork. ;-(

It's Chorlton Arts Festival time of year again. http://chorltonartsfestival.com/
I'll be doing a little craft stall at St Clement's Church selling some prints and cards on May the 21st Sat 10am-4pm. If you around pop down and say hello anyone mentioning my blog or Ollerina facebook fan page gets a 10% discount on purchases. It's always a nice family day out!

This month I'm the featured artist at midnight reads http://themidnightreaders.blogspot.com/2011/05/artist-feature-ollerina-art.html
If you want to know more about my art I'll be answering some questions and there'll be a chance to win some giveaways too!

I've been trying out some colour theory tonight in a bid to limit my palette and add a bit of simplicity to my pic, I'm quite liking the complimentary purple / blue shadows to go with the yellow / orange light. I'm also painting out of season with the spooky Halloween theme, boo!
work in progress....

This is a new direction for me, robots. It's inspired by my little boy Ollie who loves anything tech and is a huge fan of robots. He is also a fabulous artist with loads of excellent ideas so i'll be sure to be pinching a lot of them from now on!

This sad little fairy seems to be quite popular with people!

These are two images I did for Rebel Books, they were a cover for a dark fairy tale anthology and the brief was of course 'dark fairy'.

Fairy card commission.

My poor abandoned blog! It's time to blow off the cobwebs and start putting a few pictures up again now Finn's nearly one whole year. Luckily Ian has been masquerading as me with the odd bit of info, thanks ian.
Here are a couple of pictures I did for a commission to be used as cards and canvas prints, there were twelve in all.