New work from Kayleigh

Hey guys. Just a little Sunday post to show you my latest piece of work. I painted this canvas yesterday - it took me all afternoon/part of the evening. It's an image from the latest issue of Company Magazine - I thought it was a gorgeous picture so wanted to see if I could do it justice. 

I'm quite pleased with it considering I haven't painted on canvas in a very long time. Part of me thought I couldn't do it anymore. Here are a few images of work in progress ::

I love the 50's vibe with the polka dot shirt and pastel colour palette. Now I want to freshen up my paint box and see what I can come up with next. I think the painting bug has bitten me again...

Tea & Crayons Heart :: Wearing Ice Cream

Not literally of course. However there's no denying that these colours are delicious - you can't blame us indulging our sweet tooth just a little... hehe.

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Tea & Crayons Heart :: Nail Art

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They speak for themselves really don't they? Awesome.

Out & About: Rumble in the Jumble, Sunday 26th Feb 2012

We've just been told about this and it sounds amazing - we'll be there for sure!

Dawn Porter is teaming up with a host of celebrities to bring you Rumble in the Jumble, ‘A gigantic jumble sale raising quids for a brilliant cause’.

Join Dawn Porter, Gemma Cairney, Cherry Healey and Caroline Flack on Sunday 26th February 2012 at St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, London NW1 1UL (nearest tube Kings Cross) for the chance to renew your wardrobe and make a difference to women living in poverty worldwide.

For just £2 entry, and bringing at least one bag of your own jumble, you can join Kate Nash, Sara Cox, Gizzi Erskine, Grace Woodward and Brigitte Aphrodite, trading in your jumble for some new eco-chic. Any jumble remaining will be donated to Oxfam.

Dawn wrote ‘We are going to raise LOADS of money for Oxfam to help women around the world. So bring your jumble, buy some jumble, have a jumble…LET’S JUMBLE!!’. She also urged readers who can’t make the fantastic jumble event to host their own.

For more information, why not check out Dawn’s website or view and share the event flyer? You can also view the Facebook event.

Does anyone know who designed the fanastic flyer? It's amazing. Bright colours? Shoes? We love a lot. Hope to see you there crayonettes!!

Rach L xx

T&C Inspired: Ella Kirk

Hi crayonettes! 

Had a good week? Glad it's the weekend? We are, and we've got some lovely visual treats from our friend Ella, textile designer and illustrator, all the way in sunny Canada.  We love her intricate and quirky illustrations, she enjoy's an occasional robot and a mixtape and we love it.

Designing under the alias Milk Milk Lemonade you might've seen Ella's funky and colourful scarves adorning the rails of Topshop Oxford Street. 

Name: 

Ella Kirk

Where are you from: 

I'm from a teeny town in the countryside in Derbyshire, England but I've lived in Vancouver, Canada for the past year and a bit.

 

Tell us a little bit about your work: 

I studied 'surface pattern design' at Leeds College of Art and Design and like to create patterns and illustrations mainly for fashion textiles under the design name 'Milk Milk Lemonade'. I like to draw animals, robots, household items and insects and love to mash up unexpected item combinations to create quirky and interesting compositions. I also love to use a bit of typography wherever I can.

What’s your favourite tea:

My favourite tea is English Breakfast, or if I'm feeling fancy I'll go for a strawberry and kiwi blend.

Links:

Web: www.ellakirk.co.uk

Shop: society6.com/milkmilklemonade

Tea & Crayons Heart :: Printed Leggings

Miss Selfridge

River Island

Topshop

Now, I can't account for the rest of the Tea & Crayons ladies loving printed leggings as I do (my collection is quite large and would be unstoppable if I earnt enough money!), but the reason I list it as something we all heart this week is because as designer/creative types we all appreciate the element of surface design here. Printed leggings can be found everywhere at the minute, and they seem to be getting more and more daring as each design hits the shops. The wackier and more unique the better, in my opinion. I, for one, LOOOOOOVVEEEE them!

Tea & Crayons Heart :: Dyed Denim Shorts

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Another busy week for the Crayons! Designing and drawing (as always), but also dyeing denim (that'll be me, Kayleigh). The pictures above are amongst the many that inspired me to do so. Aren't they fab? The vibrant and exciting colours tie in nicely with last week's inspiration post, along with something top secret we are working on at T&C HQ. Keep up with the blog and all shall be revealed in good time... 

I may post pics of the shorts I have dyed once they are complete. I'm waiting on some push studs to arrive to give them a funky edge. If you guys are thinking about dyeing some denim of your own then head over to youtube - there are some good videos to help get you started.

More From London Fashion Week - Carlotta Actis Barone

Hey guys! Just another quick Tea and Crayons post to show you the contribution that I have made to Amelia's Magazine for London Fashion Week so far (more to come)

This illustration is of one of the fabulous Carlotta Actis Barone's designs - gorgeous I'm sure you'll agree. As you can probably tell, us Tea and Crayons ladies love our fashion :D See the full article by Helen Martin over at Amelia's Magazine here.

Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration

Hello, Abby here! 

I wanted to share something rather exciting with you all! Me and fellow Tea & Crayons member, Natasha, will soon have some of our fashion illustrations displayed in Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration. It's available to order now and by the looks of the proofs it's going to be beautiful! We're really proud to be involved and we hope you'll like it too! (All photos by Amelia Gregory)

The proofs of my pages. I love the pattern and colour everywhere!

Natasha's page proofs! They look amazing, don't they? I'm so proud of her!

If you do manage to get a copy let us know what you think! Abby xx

Introducing Tea & Crayons - Abby Wright

Name/Location: 
Hello! My name is Abby Wright and I'm from a lovely village in East Yorkshire :) (the biggest village in England I believe)

Describe your style and how you work: 

I love using my trusty wacom tablet to begin my drawings. I draw straight into photoshop, then once the initial drawing stage is done, I start to bring in the scanned in textures (clothing, paper, anything!) and work up the illustration. I truly love it when it comes to the finalising stages, where the illustration is good but has something missing. This is where I start to add in the fine details that make it perfect.

What/Who inspires you: 
I get a lot of inspiration from other artists, illustrators and crafters, fashion, my family, romance, love, living in Yorkshire and a lot from my boyfriend (It's him in the illustration below - I draw him too much!)

Favourite type of illustration to work on: 
I would say I work best in an editorial style. Recently, however, I have started to fall in love with fashion illustration. I have done many fashion illustrations for Amelia's Magazine. It's what I really love doing!

Proudest moment of your career so far: 
The proudest moment of my career so far (although I'm not even out of University yet- I'm in my final year!) was having my work chosen to be included in a book of fashion illustration (Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration). I couldn't quite believe it and still can't- my work being published?! Exciting! :)

Illustration for Amelia's Magazine.

Ambitions for the next 5 years: 
I'd love to be working for magazines and papers, creating editorial and fashion illustration pieces! Having a job doing something I absolutely love would be a dream come true :) also, having other illustrators know my name and recognise my style would be amazing!

Favourite Tea? 
Yorkshire tea! I like it strong but milky, I'm not fussy at all ;)

Favourite Crayon Colour?
Green! I'm really into my pale/sage greens but also love a deep green. Anything in between will not do. I also love a deep, burnt orange.

Guilty Pleasure: 
Much like Kayleigh, my guilty pleasure is coke. But diet coke, which I've heard is worse. Oh and chocolate! I also spend too much time on the internet ;)

If you were an animal you would be: 
I would want to be a cat! Roaming around, playing, sleeping and eating with no cares in the world? Yes please!

Cake or Curtains? 
Me and my boyfriend haven't got around to putting up curtains in the house yet (just blinds) so I've learnt to live without! Cake, however, I probably couldn't live without.

Illustration for Amelia's Magazine.

Dogs or Dancing? 
Dancing! I love dancing, and getting carried away in a good song! 

Website/Twitter etc..

Website: http://www.abbywrightillustration.co.uk/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/abbyillustrator

My blog: http://abbywrightillustration.blogspot.com/

Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/AbbyIllustration