Shipshape Studios

Hi loves, have you all had a wonderful weekend? 

We spent the afternoon at Shipshape Studios yesterday to support our lovely Rachel Lewis chatting all things illustration with Emma Block and Alice Potter. She did us proud, and inspired a creative audience!

We had a lovely day with the Shipshape team.

We've even setting up our own Tea & Crayons shop so you can buy Rachel's prints and other crayon related goodies very soon, so stay tuned!

x

Author Shoes Launch Party

Happy Saturday crayonettes! 

We blogged last week about a little party we were invited to, the Author Shoes city wall store opening  -so we popped along for some cocktails, cupcakes and shoes! 

We stepped back in time to the glitzy 1920s and had a lovely time with the Ballad girls, Faye West, Emma Block, Chrissy Wallace and June Sees. We took a few piccies

The lovely Emma Block, Faye West and our Rachel Lewis (above)

Pretty shoes

Team crayonette1 The 2 Rachels (above)

What are you all up to this weekend?

If you're in London town - come along to Shipshape studios tomorrow, Rachel L will be chatting all things illustration 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

T&C Inspired: Kerri-Ann Hulme

Hi loves! Hope you're all having a good week.

We invited T&C friend Kerri-Ann Hulme this week to share her wonderfully delicate and beautiful pencil drawings with us. We're adoring the little caspian seal she created for creature mag's endangered animal project and her hand drawn type 'We could be kings and queens'. Kerri-Ann shares alot of the same inspirations through fairytales and story telling as us crayons which is probably why we love her work so much :)

Name: 

Hello, my name is Kerri-Ann Hulme.

Where are you from: 

I'm from a small town called Widnes in Cheshire.

 

Tell us a little bit about your work: 

I would describe my work as whimsical, which reflects on childhood themes. I am particularly interested in children's books and hope to one day write and illustrate my own story. I love painting with acrylics on a large scale or drawing true to life portraits doing tone and shading with pencils. I'm currently just starting a few personal projects and sorting out my portfolio as it's a new year and time for brand new work. Also, I am one third of the collective Pencils, Paper, Scissors and we have just sent our first collaborative project to the printers and are expecting it back any day now. It is a circus themed colouring book and we are so excited to share it with everyone.

Who, what and/or where inspires you: 

I am inspired by many things including fairytales, magic, animals and people. The golden age illustrators such as Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen and Harry Clarke have been one of my main inspirations since I first decided I wanted to illustrate because I find myself getting lost in their pictures as they are so full of beautiful detail. I have recently discovered two amazing book illustrators, the work of Inga Moore (she illustrated The Secret Garden) and Jill Barklem (author and illustrator of the Brambly Hedge children's books), if you love children's books as much as me they are definitely ones to look out for.

What’s your favourite tea:

I don't like tea! :( (It always surprises us when people don't like tea)

Links:

Blog: goodnight-neverland.blogspot.com

Website: www.kerriannhulme.co.uk 

Twitter: @kerriannhulme

Collective: pencils paper scissors collective

♥

T&C Inspired: Joanne Hawker

Hi loves! Hope you're all having a good weekend.

We have a new T&C inspired section where we'll be featuring some of our favourite illustrators, designers and general creative types and chatting to them about their beautiful work.  

Our first is the very lovely artist, Joanne Hawker who sent us some gorgeous illustrations (the owl is a personal fave of mine, she must've known we like a bird drawing). She has such a lovely delicate and organic style to her work.

Name: 

Joanne Hawker

Where are you from: 

I’m from a little village in a small corner of South Somerset.

Tell us a little bit about your work: 

My work tends to be quite varied as I still feel that I haven’t found my one true style yet so I like to experiment with lots of different techniques and ideas. Everything I do starts as a little biro doodle in my notebook and then I draw it neatly, ink it up, scan it in and render it digitally in Photoshop or illustrator or sometimes both! A lot of my work focuses around the natural world, as I tend to have many obsessions with woodland animals so expect to see a few foxes or owls in my work. I also have bit of thing for paper textures so they also play a huge part in the backgrounds of my creations.  This year I’m going to try and experiment with being a bit more minimal as its something I find difficult. Basically, I like to try and do a bit of everything when it comes to my work!

Who, what and/or where inspires you: 

As I said above the natural world plays a big part in my work, so a trip to the woods or the beach can spark off a variety of ideas. Or even the early morning cycle ride through the country lanes to work has been known to throw up a few ideas. There are a huge number of people on twitter who inspire me on a daily basis but there are too many to name so if you want to know who just read through the massive list of people I follow! :)

What’s your favourite tea: 

Tea! My favourite drink! Yum! I have to have at least 3 cups minimum of PG Tips or Clipper Tea everyday. Can’t beat it! Or as a treat I love love love Whitards fruit tea. Elderflower or Summer Fruits being my favourites.

Linked:

Website: www.joannehawker.co.uk

Blog: www.origamichicken.com

Twitter: @joannehawker

Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/joannehawker

Society6: www.society6.com/joannehawker

You can buy her wonderful little calendar (pictured below) on her etsy shop, we'll be wanting to get our hands on one of those to keep our plans in order :)

x

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wishing you all the loveliest of new year's, hope yours started with some glasses of fizz & sparkly fireworks! Mine wasn't quite as glamourous as that, but nevertheless it made me happy to think of all the lovely new things 2012 will bring! We've started the year welcoming in our lovely Fritha's beautiful baby Wilfryd, which has put a smile on our faces! Super lovely pictures of new mama Fritha & her family on her sweet blog. Rachel L has her beautiful floral illustrations in Lionheart mag (ROAR!), Rachel P created some super cute owls for Yumi's window displays (twit twoo), Kay's blog has had a gorgeous makeover rapsberry, mint & orange & Abby has been illustrating beauties for Lionheart, there's one of Fritha! I've been illustrating for Audrey Grace Boutique (lots of super illustrators on there!) Also lots of wonderful projects to come from all of us crayonettes! Here's to 2012, eh! LOVE NATASHA ♥

Burst Magazine

Hi all! Hope you're all having a good week, yes?

A little feature I just wanted to share with you :) The lovely Ali from Burst Magazine invited me to take part in their Pen & Pencil illustration issue, and it’s online now! Yay!
Go download (it's free!), there's lots of visual treats in store.

T&C Meet up in sunny London Town

Last weekend Rachel, Rachel and Fritha met up in sunny London!
We popped along to the New Blood show on Brick Lane to see our Abby's work exhibited among the many wonderful creatives! Lots of inspiring work, we were feeling v motivated about the future of tea and crayons so we made lists and many plans! :)

Photos courtesy of Fritha :)

 

 

(Above - Rachel P, Rachel L, Fritha at the very glam Paddington train station)

We've just set up a brand new mailing list (points to the left) so, send us your deets and we'll send you lots of lovely emails.

Don't forget to follow us on twitter @teaandcrayons - we'll be closing our giveaway when we hit lucky 1000 followers!
xo xo

New work from Rachel P... Tantrum Illustration

Hello crayonettes! How are you lovelies?
Hope you had a good weekend! It's been a while since I've posted any new work so I thought I would share this little illustration I did for a new fashion and music magazine Tantrum's website. 

 

Our other Rachel went to Tantrum's launch party in London town last week and took a few photies which she has posted on her blog :)


If you're on facebook, we now have a facebook page so you can find us at (link) - come and 'like' us for all our latest goings on at T&C HQ!
xo xo

The Ballad Of Lola Bacon

Hi lovelies,

It's been an exciting week here at T&C HQ! First, our Digital Artist feature and today the latest installment from Ballad Of Magazine has arrived yay! My little black eyed bandit illustration has found himself among the beautiful pages of the Ballad Of Lola Bacon.

Illustration by Rachel Clare Price

It's a gorgeous issue, full of lovely visual things I definitely recommend a read. A few of our twitter friends Faye West, Daria H, Jamie Mills, Jo Cheung and Avril Kelly have also made an appearance with their wonderous creatures!

Much love for Lindsey, Claire and the Ballad Of team! x

Tea & Crayons featured in Issue 20 of Digital Artist!

 

This month, we were kindly asked to be interviewed by Digital Artist about collectives; how they work, what are the benefits and how to go about starting one. Above is a crop of the contents page where our lovely Kayleigh Buck had her work featured :)

 Closeup of Rachel Price's piece featured :)

Little extract from our interview.

To read the full article, buy issue 20 now - it's out for the next few weeks. Really privileged to be featured alongside other established collectives like Puck and Monster - exciting stuff!

Rachel L

Hello Monday

Hi loves! Hope you’ve all had a good weekend! What've you all been up to?

I went down to Manchester and spent the day wandering round the northern quarter looking at crafty things, vintage shops and drinking tea - ideal way to spend a sunny saturday :)

 

I went to this craft centre called & Made was a fun place full of nifty hand made things. It’s also a working studio which was cool to see the artists working away as they sell things. I found it quite inspiring for our collective :) I would love to have a little studio one day

 

There was this huge set of drawers full of badges (almost as good as ours tehee)

Cute heart shaped decorations and things...

There's a couple more photies over at my blog
I'm gonna go dust off my sunglasses so i can enjoy the sunshine while it's here :)

xo

Drawing Gaga

Hello crayonettes! Hope you're all enjoying the sunshine as much as we are.

You might've heard about the competition for V Magazine to illustrate Ms GaGa herself. Abby and I both entered so I just wanted to share our efforts

(1: Rachel Clare Price, 2: Abby Wright) 

It's always fun to take part :)

Pick Me Up @ Somerset House

Hi Crayonettes!
Hope you're all well and enjoying the sunshine (while it lasts!)
The Rachels went to Somerset House at the weekend and had a nice day out in London town.

Myself (Rachel P) and Rachel L popped along to the Pick Me Up graphic art fair at Somerset House on Sunday to see all the lovely artwork and graphic design.

There lots of amazing artwork on display, the place is packed full of all kinds of image makers from typographers to animators, graphic designers and independent illustrators.  Definitely worth a visit.

One of our favourite illustrators Kate Moross made an appearance with her colourful prints, we love her work, its so bold

There was lots of hand made type and letterpress around as well which we loved - I took a picture of the letter R. For Rachel. :)

It was alot of fun, well worth it, we're full of inspiration for own little collective - maybe one day we'll be at Somerset House! I think Rach has some better photos she may share with us later.

Much love!
x

Edit: Hello, Rachel L here! I do indeed have some more photos, check it:

T& C for... Tea & Crayons!

Seiko Kato

 Jules Julien

 Clara Terne

Revenge is Sweet

 

Takeru Toyokura

Polly Becker

Rach enjoying one of the It's Nice That books!

I've written a full review over on my blog, click here to have a look! Was a great day, and lovely to meet a fellow Crayonette! :D


Rach L xx