We Illustrate - Music

Well! I thought I was being all organized last week when I emailed the girls on Sunday to let them know what my theme would be...and then forgot to post about it all week on here!

So the theme a little backdated is Music! I thought music is a good subject as it is so personal and songs can mean different things to different people and touch them in different sorts of ways. My idea was to illustrate the lyrics of our favorite songs..

Then I started to think what was my favorite song and became a little stuck! I *think* I'm probably going to to go with the Pixies 'Winterlong' and I do love it so..

Anyways, what have you been up to this past week? Sorry I haven't posted much, I know alot of the tea and crayons ladies have been poorly sick recently, myself included.

I did however end up going to London with my mum and we went to basically all the museums! It was great though probably the V&A was my favorite.

We went to the Tate Modern book shop and picked up an issue of Balled Of..look at my proudness as I show off my work to the rest of the shop hehe :)

Sorry for bad quality pics! Taken with my phone although my mum took some better ones xoxo

Ballad Of - Nanny Floff Launch Party

Hello! Fritha here, hope you all had a lovely weekend?

I was off in London town with my mister for the Ballad Of party in Shorditch. I had an apsolute fail regarding pics I'm afraid as my Iphone as no flash and I forgot my camera!

'Ballad Of ' is a magazine that was founded by two 'Northern Art geeks' (Lindsey & Claire) who are based in South London.

They spend their time publishing art they love in their own magazine and online exhibition space for brand new, emerging artists


They are stocked in : RD Franks,Jumbo Records (Leeds), The Tate Modern, Compton News, Selfridges, Harrods (Waterstones), Terrys News Stand, Rococo, Lauries, M2 (Covent Garden), Press Bureau, Magma (Covent Garden), Artswords Bookshop (Shoreditch) & Soho Original.

Tom and I turned up fairly early (after getting a little lost in the rain around Shorditch and trying to located ourselves on my Iphone map hehe). As soon as we turned up Lindsey and Claire greeted us with hugs and a free Nanny Floff cocktail (yum). I thought it might be kind of odd as I had spoken with them quite alot through the Internet but they are just as lovely in real life!

There was a live drawing event featuring the artists Iamanoctopus, Jamie Mills, Sandra Dieckmann, Natsuki Otani,  Murray Somerville & Thomas Bates . I didnt want to disturb them as I am a little in awe of a lot of these artists, but I really wish I had gone and said hello now!

images of Sandra Deikmand and Erd Octo

I did have the lovely Emma Block come up and say hello though and bumped into Stacie Swift both of who's art work I really love, and talk to regularly on twitter. I'm pretty sure there were more peeps there that I might of 'known' but would not recognise them as there twitter avatars are usually illustrations!

I also got to speak to the lovely Be from Ballad Of in person which was ace as I had recently designed her logo and bits and bobs for her website (which is due to go live any day now) and is going to be full of lots of lovely vintage clothes mmmm.

What did you get up to this weekend? xoxo

Introducing Tea and Crayons - Fritha

Hello there! Its Fritha here ( aka Tigerlilly Quinn  ) its nice to meet you!

So here is a little about me just a little 'get to know you kinda thing'

Name/Location:
Fritha Moonbeatle Tigerlilly Quinn - Bristol

Describe your style and how you work:
I would say that my style is quite childlike as is my personality! I love colour and cute sentiments! I always use my 0.5 rotering pen and then colour with either felt tips/digitally or with paint or ink

What/Who inspires you:
Family/home/romantic movies and period dramas

Favourite type of illustration to work on: (by this I mean editorial, children's book, etc)
Children's book for sure, I would love to do this as my full time job

Proudest moment of your career so far:
I think it will be featuring in the new issue of Ballad Of due out on the 12th of November, you can purchase it at the Tate (!) and Harrods Waterstones amongst other places. I am planning on going up to London a few weeks later with my mum and I think buying a copy of my published artwork with my mam will be the proudest moment of my life so far!

Ambitions for the next 5 years:

To run my own crafty/vintage boutique and working as a freelance illustrator

Favourite Tea?

English Breakfast - Classic

Favourite Crayon Colour?
Turquoise

Guilty Pleasure:
Playing retro games on my DS (tetris/settlers) in my PJ's in bed (geek!)

If you were an animal you would be:
Bush baby 

Cake or Curtains?
Curtains (retro flowery ones)

Dogs or Dancing? 
Dancing (I would like to point out I am an animal person but am very much a cat lady so saying dogs seems like a betrayal)

Website/Twitter
http://www.tigerlillyquinn.blogspot.com/

http://www.moonbeatle.bigcartel.com/

www.twitter.com/moonbeatle

Well I hope you liked my little just for fun fact file! Tell me about you! xoxo