So one of the reasons I got all loved up for valentines day (okay…the only real reason. I am dead inside it turns out.) is that the lovely folk at Milk Magazine offered me a showcase of work for valentines day. Well who am I to say no eh?
So I got out the pencils and did a little scribble or two and came up with these quick bits.
To see the showcase and browse the magazine, go ahead and take a look here.
Well if I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times. I’m not ACTUALLY dead inside. And here’s the proof.
Hope you all have a nice valentines day.
No don’t be silly…of course I’m not celebrating.
As I was on a train for the actual night and have been working solidly since, this is my first chance to share one of my little halloween doodles with y’all.
Cause it’s not cool to be on time. Bonfire night can wait! And don’t worry, there were still sweeties waiting for me when I got home.
A quick one just to get some work up from a new project I’ve been working on for our, Totally-Awesome-and-Serious-and-Not-a-All-Just-An-Excuse-to-Go-Drink-in-London, Graduate show.
The private view was last night but the work will be up for two weeks so make a note to head down there, check out the work and forget your woes with a cocktail or two.
Although, just bear in mind who you’ll be hanging with tomorrow…
After all, After hours
We’ve all met them.
Details to follow soon.
I have a riddle for you.
What do Amir Kahn, a bowl of oats and a gravitionally challenged housewife in Bristol have in common?
Okay, absolutely nothing, but they’re two examples of some works I did recently based on some editorial articles.
The Amir Kahn one is primarily just a bit of portraiture, because I haven’t done any in a long time. That and I’ve got a bit of boxing THING where I just like drawing characters who are potentially going to punch things in the face.
It was a really short piece on how he’d “vowed [he’d] earn” a fight with Floyd Mayweather after he canned him off following Kahn’s meeting with Collazo. The language of it all made it sound kind of like he was following a code of honor, so I dragged in some imagery reminiscent of Japanese/ samurai bent to give it a bit of a vibe.
I’m undecided at the minute, but I think I might can the bag. It works just as a nice bit of portraiture. The text can fill in the blanks.
Then there was a piece I found in Bristol Magazine, the local lifestyle glossy.
It was an advertisement for oats, “The Superfood of the Kitchen” and just said how good they are for you. There was a lot of mention of health and lifestyle “balance” and Bristolians love a good bit of hippy culture, so here’s what I got.
Just another excuse to draw some nice things really.
But, of course, regardless of all this silly picture stuff, the question remains…
Why IS a raven like a writing desk?
No, okay I’ll stop that now.
Peace out.
For those of you that don’t remember, I did a few illustrations for the Bath Spa MA in Creative Writing course’s graduating anthology.
Well, the anthology is now done and dusted and ready to go and it entirely free and available to download here both in PDF and for kindle.
It features 23 short, illustrated extracts from the young adult novels from the very talented bunch, five of which feature my artwork to accompany them.
The beautiful cover design is a wee snippet from the, very talented, Emily Hunter. Check her out too cause she’s awesome and really nice.
It’s a great read and a brilliant showcase so go have a read and reap the fruits of our labor!
Here’s some “work” and other things I’ve been doing.
Don’t try and talk to me about them, I’m in a grump. But here it is anyway.
Okay, so we all like Tea. But some of us also like coffee. And some of us REALLY like GOOD coffee.
I am one of said humans, and for this very reason I LOVE the Boston Tea Party chain. For those of you not in the West, you’ll just have to trust me. They do what they do and they do it good.
And look how pretty it is.
So I was pretty delighted when I was doodling away in it’s Bath branch some time ago, and was approached and asked if I’d like to exhibit work for a bit. Pretty neat eh?
So for the month of May, I have adorned the walls of Bath’s bit of Boston with silkscreen prints, etchings, risographs, digital works and any other number of bits and pieces I like to make.
So tell all your friends, go grab a coffee (because it really is good) and surround yourself with oddities and nice things for a bit.
And then buy them too. That would be great. Thanks.
At a lecture today, a lady (yes, a lady) mentioned that her organisation had Cath Kidston in line to give a talk.
Then I came home and didn’t want to go to bed.
So a handful of friends and I decided to make a pretty thing.
You know, cause we’re in third year and have nothing better to do or anything…
But it seems a shame not to make use of the ace University facilities available to us while we’re lucky enough to be here. Especially given that they are, available FOR FREE (3 grand a year free anyway. Well, it’s better than 9.) so we gathered together a little proposal to send out to our fellow image makers on the course.
We wanted to make a collaborative work of illustrations and imagery based on the brief we set. A short, publication that showcases the talent that Bath Spa is about to unleash on the world. We decided to keep it simple, keep it open to interpretation and keep it relevant.
And what could be more relevant than the present? So we asked people to volunteer a simple image in two colours (black and blue) based on their own, personal response to the Right Here, Right Now. We wanted to keep it simple so could spend a bit of time reproducing on the dual-colour Risograph printer in our studio. A cheap and cheerful zine that captures the very essence of 2014’s graduation image makers.
So here’s my design. My personal Right Here, Right Now: A third year on the brink of graduation:
Unfortunately, the project took something of an acceleration which leaves me unable to currently show you the finished product. Turns out, our tutors thought it was a kind of neat project too, so encouraged us to put a wiggle on and get it done in line with a second year study trip to New York so they could take it with them to drop in on US professionals and studios. This is, obviously pretty cool, but it meant we had to finish it in under a week. We managed to get the kindly artwork donations of 12 classmates so it’s a tight little compendium, but the styles are all really varied and I think it looks ace overall. We literally got done binding it with minutes to spare before handing it over to be whisked away over the atlantic, but we’re well in line to produce a few more so photographic evidence will be kicking about soon with any luck.
Trust me though, it looked really cool.
Seriously.
Rebecca Bagley Illustration