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2010-12-06T09:08:00.000-08:00

New cover for Amelia's compndium of fashion illustration, and a couple of proof pages featuring some of the work that's going in!

Buy a copy here:

http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/shop/Amelia's-Compendium-%3Cbr-/%3Eof-Fashion-Illustration/c10/index.html?osCsid=kqjalavluv6lv3ktn1hct4t9e1

2010-10-08T02:52:00.000-07:00

My three illustrations for Amelia Gregory of Amelia's Magazine.

http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/

The illustrations feature designs from The ethical fashion Label Pia Anjou.

http://www.pianjou.com/

Deffinately go and look at her work right away.

2010-10-08T02:30:00.000-07:00

Recent Fashion illustrations for Amelia Gregory, featuring beautiful ethical fashion label Partimi.

The new collection is bloody amazing!

http://www.partimi.com/

Amelia's site:

http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/

2010-08-06T01:06:00.001-07:00

This is the most recent illustration I've done for Amelia's magazine. It's about the current financial system, and how we're in for a rough ride. Actually a very interesting article, which was written by Amelia Greggory after attending the Automatic earth Lecture. So go have a read:
http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/earth/transition-towns-conference-2010-the-automatic-earth-stoneleigh-lecture-on-the-financial-crisis/2010/08/06/

2010-07-28T06:37:00.000-07:00

A little illustration of Golden Filter at the secret garden party For Amelia's mag, my second version!

2010-07-23T13:19:00.000-07:00

diamonds and jems for a forthcoming Amelia's magazine artiocle, links up monday!

2010-07-22T06:31:00.000-07:00

Jonsi Birgisson Illustration for Amelia's magazine, I love doing illustrations for Amelia's

http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/music/latitude-festival-2010-sunday-music-review/2010/07/22/

2010-07-20T13:52:00.000-07:00

The two illustrations i did for the supermarket sarah/tatty devine event for Amelia's magazine online can be seen here:

http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/fashion/tatty-devine-and-supermarket-sarah-launch-party/2010/07/20/

Also, an illustration again for Amelia's, of Nigel Kennedy at lattiude festival:(top)

http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/music/latitude-2010-thursday-night-review/2010/07/20/

updates

2010-07-18T11:18:00.000-07:00

I ordered a load of lovely pocket mirrors from http://www.awsomemerchandise.com/ . I was honestly really happy with the price, service and quality, so as soon as I've got some spare cash I'm going to get some more stuff printed up.

I also have been volunteering a few quick illustrations for Amelia's magazine online, these are the latest: for the tatty devine, supermarket Sarah party, I'll post the link when it's live. (2nd image)

I also submitted some illustrations for the Amelia's compendium of fashion illustration book which is due out at Christmas.

I did three fashion illustrations of the s/s range by ethical designer Pia Anjou, her work is right up my street, gorgeous, so that's why I chose to illustrate it. I painted on wood, just because its such a nice surface, and because I wanted an earthy organic aesthetic. (1st image)

2010-06-18T02:06:00.000-07:00

a few photos from my final show :)

2010-06-03T12:51:00.000-07:00

OK so..I've now almost finished uni, handed in all my work, just have to get stuff ready for my final show and get my feedback at some point.

I thought I might give out my website address...which I've had since Christmas(!) but didn't feel ready to publish. so here it is..still not quite finished, but it will do for now. I'd like to get a bit more creative with it, so am planning on learning website design, so that I don't have to use a web template ala..Mr site.

www.jenillustration.com

Also, if you're local to Birmingham, then you might want to pop down to the sauce gallery in the custard factory this weekend for the rookie arts exhibition, the weather will be lovely and you'll get to see lots of work by young Birmingham artists including myself.

this is the twitter page: http://twitter.com/rookiearts

2010-05-30T14:14:00.000-07:00

I'm going to hit you with some of the work I've been doing for my final major project.

I have done the terrible thing and gone to bed at ten o'clock two days before my work is due in..shocking, and I still have loads to do, but I'm completely out of steam so oh well!

2010-05-07T11:07:00.000-07:00

last spread minus text

2010-04-26T01:31:00.000-07:00

A tiny sample of an image I'll use for my dream time book..I'm hoping it all works out, but really not sure at the moment. this is plywood with watercolour birds and white acrylic detail. i like the translucency in some areas, which hopefully supports the dream time idea. I'm desperate to put some colour in..but It might confuse the story, so I'll keep you posted!

2010-04-03T07:40:00.000-07:00

Early draft of the first double page spread of my dreamtime book...I'm using blurb to print it...and I feel like I'm going to have to learn the layout tricks the hard way!

aaaanyway, need to sort things like wording, text and maybe sort that ugly blur on the left where I've stretched the whole thing to make it fit the page...

2010-03-25T06:23:00.000-07:00

a bit of experimenting with the dreamtime theme..everything in the dreamtime started out grey, and was gradually coloured by the ancestoral spirits. I'm going to try to do a big landscape using pencils and neon paint.

2010-03-09T08:36:00.000-08:00

2010-03-08T04:42:00.000-08:00

My major project was based on dreaming..but recently its evolved into a look at the Aborigine idea of 'dreamtime' which is related to the creation and the value of nature. There are loads of dreamtime stories from different parts of Australia which explain some of the concepts. I've started illustrating the first story, which is called 'how the birds got their colours', and I'll probably have a go at a couple more, producing paintings and illustrations.

Above are mock samples of the birds story, trying to work out compositions. The colours are something I'll need to look at, i think I'm going to paint on dark grey (maybe paper maybe plywood), then add a few more neon's into the leaves and branches. They will be big..so I probably wont be able to scan them in, but i'l get them up somehow when they're done. :)

2010-02-22T06:33:00.000-08:00

major project at uni, based on dreaming.

2010-02-13T05:03:00.000-08:00

A sweetheart for my sweetheart

happy valentines :)

2010-02-11T15:45:00.000-08:00

my contribution to the scribble train, all the proceeds from the zine gos to unicef so its for a good cause :) might have a go at another one!

2010-02-02T09:13:00.000-08:00

well...major project time and i havn't got a clue what im going to do....scary!

2010-01-06T13:00:00.000-08:00

lots of the envelop designers featured on 'where the lovely things are',

with my 'festival' napkin at the end

happy :)

http://www.wherethelovelythingsare.com/home/lovely-finds-envelop-1.html

2010-01-05T10:42:00.000-08:00

2009-12-15T07:47:00.000-08:00

2009-12-09T13:11:00.000-08:00

this is me...kind of, it wasn't supposed to be a self portrait...but i needed a model and had no one to hand..so i had to draw my self! ugh.

for the benefit of my poor tutors i made the eyes slighlty bigger, and the nose a touch smaller, as you do :)

2009-12-04T07:49:00.000-08:00

A first mock for my uni project based on the ycn ted baker brief...I've adapted it to suite my negotiated project, so it's not exactly the same. Needs a lot of work!

2009-11-26T11:15:00.000-08:00

new cushion cover design at http://www.envelop.eu/shop/designers/p/detail/jennifercostello

2009-11-13T02:08:00.000-08:00

http://bluebirdisaliar.blogspot.com/

Have a look at this blog, the creator is a textiles design/management student and I cant wait to see what she comes out with! I love the black and white designs...

2009-11-08T11:24:00.000-08:00

This is a mock-up for a uni project to make in store illustrations and installations for paperchase...this would probably go behind the till, and would be large scale. I want to put some paper mobiles above it, suspended from the ceiling. I need to work on the typography, but it's a nice quote:) William Wordsworth. I used neon paint but it doesn't show up :( I think I'm going to have to make it a bit less sickly looking ...

2009-10-28T04:49:00.000-07:00

I used the pattern bellow for the kleenex 'design your own cube' competition. It closes on saturday so be quick! This is a link to my design but you can enter here somewhere too.

http://www.mykleenexcube.co.uk/cube/DLedXpZM2VJBxu13c

2009-10-27T09:28:00.000-07:00

making patterns ( or procrastinating maybe...)

2009-10-22T13:15:00.000-07:00

2009-10-20T02:30:00.000-07:00

I've just uploaded this new design to www.envelop.eu . It's a bit graphicy but I like it. Looking forward to doing some really nice stuff and making a collection when I've eventually cracked uni work. Anyway...have a look on the site there is some really lovely stuff...my fave designers are KEROZEN, Jackie Bos, Sretan BOR, Sally illustration and Laura Lamoratta

2009-10-19T09:04:00.000-07:00

a note book design maybe......

2009-10-15T06:08:00.000-07:00

a work in progress maybe..

2009-10-11T11:15:00.000-07:00

http://negprojectjennifercostello.blogspot.com/

A new blog for my negotiated project, any comments are very much welcomed, I might be updating this one more regulary for a while.

2009-10-09T09:53:00.000-07:00

2009-10-09T06:14:00.000-07:00

2009-09-22T07:33:00.000-07:00

napkins

loads of nice 'illustrated cotton basics' at http://www.envelop.eu/

you can become a member and upload your designs for bags, cushion covers, aprons etc

2009-09-21T08:20:00.000-07:00

2009-09-21T08:11:00.000-07:00

a bit of testing/try outs for uni stuff

2009-09-15T07:41:00.000-07:00

colour problems again..Original on flikr or myspacex

2009-09-08T01:52:00.000-07:00

2009-09-07T08:05:00.000-07:00

my dog / Perranporth beach in Cornwall /business cards

2009-08-31T03:01:00.000-07:00

some work for a zine...fingers crossed

2009-08-26T05:42:00.000-07:00

2009-08-25T03:03:00.000-07:00

this could do with a background..dont know what! there are some really nice shoots in the asos men magazine that's just come out so thats where this has come from, the photographer is Donald Christie. The Prints are really nice so I might do some more

2009-08-20T07:50:00.000-07:00

Have a look at cut click, an online magazine. They have been nice enough to put a couple of pieces of my work in the 11th issue :) and there is lots of good stuff in there

www.cut-click.co.uk

2009-08-12T09:07:00.000-07:00

tea party, inverted again! actual image on myspacex

2009-07-28T00:57:00.000-07:00

another party hat cat from a while a go. its actually yellow....:( you can see the actual version on my myspace illustration page. myspace has some of my work on because nothing gets altered during the upload. blogger alters everything for some reason....

2009-07-17T04:36:00.000-07:00

2009-07-16T11:46:00.000-07:00

2009-07-15T07:18:00.000-07:00

Brixham

2009-07-01T02:20:00.000-07:00

peacocks :)

2009-06-25T02:06:00.000-07:00

work from first year, same thing really. image was based on the song lyrics, ''hold your colours against the wall'' by pendulum

2009-06-25T02:02:00.000-07:00

twiggy. this was from about a year ago. her ears are wrong lol but i thnk i was trying to work out how to do bold colour and pencil together.

2009-06-19T09:34:00.000-07:00

going to see blur

2009-06-19T09:26:00.000-07:00

mickey

2009-06-16T06:08:00.000-07:00

a bit of scrap, brown paper has come through luckily..pastels and pen

2009-06-15T06:14:00.000-07:00

everything i do on brown paper goes blue....??!!

2009-06-11T11:23:00.000-07:00

new banner... which is going to change so excuse the crap photo!

2009-05-20T04:47:00.000-07:00

jewels. i don't know how to colour this? I want to do it all in monoprint like lightblue lines and then use a bit of paint or chalk..don't know..

2009-05-15T06:39:00.000-07:00

party hat cat

2009-05-07T03:58:00.000-07:00

purse, all in pencil.

2009-04-18T11:21:00.000-07:00

2009-04-13T10:33:00.000-07:00

finished work for ycn style brief....

2009-04-11T08:08:00.000-07:00

2009-04-06T08:34:00.000-07:00

2009-04-06T08:19:00.001-07:00

sketch book stuff

2009-04-01T07:40:00.000-07:00

New scanner!

2009-03-30T10:56:00.000-07:00

puggy

2009-03-30T10:02:00.000-07:00

This was work for a ycn brief, but changed my mind about the concept...loads of bags and loads of shoes basically.....

2009-03-30T09:29:00.000-07:00

currently awaiting a scanner so no more photographs!

2009-03-03T11:24:00.000-08:00

mug

2009-03-03T11:20:00.000-08:00

Perfume

2009-03-03T11:14:00.000-08:00

shoe

2009-03-03T11:06:00.000-08:00

soap

2009-03-03T10:57:00.000-08:00

2009-03-03T10:49:00.000-08:00

2009-03-03T10:40:00.000-08:00

another bird....they don't get boring....

2009-03-03T02:31:00.000-08:00