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About

I’m Abi – an artist from the UK who is currently in Cyprus, painting trees, boats and various villages.

I have worked as a professional illustrator for several years and my portfolio can be found here. It contains my CV, professional projects and commissioning information and is for anyone looking to hire or commission an illustrator, designer or portrait artist.

This website is my blog and contains sketches, personal projects, doodles and some writings about my ideas, methods and influences. It is for anyone interested in art and looking to see how another artist works. Until recently, I had one site, with an integrated blog, but I found that my daily output of drawings, doodles, paintings and ideas was too eclectic to fit into a portfolio site and so I decided to split the two.

If you have any questions, please send me an email. I will respond to all polite, sensible queries.

I can also be found on Twitter.

Published on July 19, 2010 9:01 am.
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Last week, I posted about some interesting discoveries I had made online. Read that post here

This week, I have found more fascinating blogs & portfolios. Here they are:

Artists & Illustrators:

I always like to see Aniela Murphy’s illustrations pop up on Amelia’s Magazine and she has had a great blog for some time now, but it was great to see her brand new website appear the other week. There’s a fantastic selection of digital and hand-drawn work on it; well worth a look.

Another illustrator who uses hand drawn techniques to great effect in her work is June Chanpoomidole. June’s work is vividly coloured and has a strong narrative element to it, which works especially well in fashion illustration. Check out her blog here.

Dylan White is an illustrator and animator who usually draws by hand with ink pens and fineliners and colours everything in on a mac. As well as the colourful selection of work on his website he has some fantastic sketches and drawings on his blog, which make for intriguing viewing after looking at the work on his website.

Jenny Lloyd is an illustrator & print designer with a varied portfolio of beautiful and often very decorative work. She also has a great section on her website for free downloads of desktop and iphone wallpapers; take a look at it here.

Another great illustrator is Staffordshire based Stina Jones. As well as being the Art Director for Creative Elements, Stina is a freelance artist and through 2010 has been running a creative project called Daily Doodle. Stina has produced a new doodle every day this year with the aim of raising money for the charity Shelter. It’s a great idea and the doodles have been fascinating to see each day. Details »

Friday Round Up II

Published on September 3, 2010 2:13 pm.
Filed under: Reviews Tags: Aniela Murphy, Art, design, Dylan White, Friday Round Up, illustration, Jenny Lloyd, Renmen project, Stina Jones

I thought it might be interesting to share some works in progress with you. The first image is an oil painting. It’s not very far along just yet; I had planned to draw a different scene, but then I started making a grid across the bottom half and decided to alter it. Details »

Work in Progress

Published on August 30, 2010 2:15 pm.
Filed under: Art, Work in Progress Tags: acrylic, landscape, oil, painting

I enjoyed drawing this banner for Creative Boom very much. I decided to draw a British street and to age the drawing with a hint of sepia to contrast with the blue Creative Boom logo. Details »

Creative Boom Banner

Published on August 27, 2010 8:26 pm.
Filed under: News Tags: Creative Boom, design, illustration, web

Every week I discover interesting art and writing online. Here is a quick look at some of the blogs and sites I have visited this week:

Artists & Illustrators:

I’ve been a great fan of Simon Wild’s illustration since stumbling across it on twitter earlier this year and his first children’s book is available on Amazon right now. It’s called Fantastical Flying Machines and is a great use of Simon’s colourful style of artwork.

More children’s illustration I’ve enjoyed seeing this week has been by Lesley Barnes, who has created some illustrations of The Firebird. Lesley’s style works really well with the Russian Folk tale and it will be great to see what other stories she illustrates in the future. Lesley has an Etsy shop for anyone interested in buying her gorgeous, original artwork.

Artist and illustrator Natasha Newton returned from Paris and reopened her popular Etsy shop. I’m a huge admirer of Natasha’s atmospheric paintings and she also has a very interesting blog, which features articles about selling online (amongst other subjects) as well as updates on her own work. Details »