Animal Colouring Book - Part 1

In the last 6 months, I've spent more time drawing and trying to create projects for myself. So as I enjoy drawing animals, I decided to make an Animal A to Z colouring book for my friend's daughter.

I started the process by working out a list of animals, this is what I came up with:

A - Aardvark                         N - Nightingale   
B - Bear                                O - Owl
C - Cat                                  P - Peacock
D - Donkey                            Q - Quail
E -  Elephant                          R - Rabbit
F - Flamingo                           S - Squirrel 
G - Giraffe                            T - Tortoise
H - Hedgehog                         U - Umbrella Bird
I - Iguana                               V - Vulture
J - Jellyfish                            W - Whale
K - Kangaroo                          X - X-Ray Tetras
L - Lemur                               Y - Yak

M - Magpies                           Z - Zebra

 

I ended up with a pile of illustrations.

 

As I looked through the animals, I decided some of the pictures would look better with more of a background.

 

So in the progress of getting the pictures finished, I started looking at typefaces and at first I tried this. 

However it didn't have the right feel, so I ended up tracing around a typeface, to make it more hand drawn and friendly. 

During this process, I decided to start screen printing again. I thought the elephant and the whale would make good three colour prints. The first print I made was the whale, but as I was using an old screen, you could see ghosts from previous prints, so I ended up buying a new screen. 

 The new screen helped and the whale looks a lot better

 Next up was the elephant, but I decided to be a bit more playful with colour of the elephant. 

Now my room is surrounded with cute animals. Next step is to sort out the layout........

Seattle Inspiration

After my time in New York, I flew to Seattle for a few days.
Here are some photos I took for inspiration there.

1) Sandra Cinto - "Untitled" 

2) Hand prints on Richard Serra - "Wake"  

3) Alexander Calder - "The Eagle" 

4) Seattle Waterfront

5) Tree silhouettes at the Olympic Sculpture Park

6) & from Roy McMakin - "Love & Loss"

7) Can't Look Away: The Lure of Horror Film at EMP

8) Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses Exhibition at EMP

9)Louise Bourgeois - "Eye Benches 2"

10) Pike's Place Market 

New York Inspiration

Last September I was in New York for a couple of days for the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park. While I was there, I took some photos that I thought would inspire me in the future.

1) Looking across the Jackie O Reservoir

2) Bird Block Print at the Natural History Museum 
3) Snow leopard quote in Central Park Zoo

4) Sweet Roasted Corn Sign
5) Ceiling of the Guggenheim

6) Rainbow coloured Uniqlo stairs
7) Unicorn Horn Sculpture

8) Christopher Wool - "Cats in Bag, Bags in River"
9) Yoshitomo Nara - "On my god i miss you"

10) Looking through MoMA 
11)  Eyes Open, Eyes Closed Sign in MoMA

12) Takashi Murakami - "727" 
14) Keith Haring - "Untitled"

15) Mel Bochner - "Language is not Transparent"
16) Baohaus Wall Art by Sophia Chang