Shameless Self Promotion!

Hello everyone :) I hope you all had a great weekend. Today I'm posting with a bit of a motive - I hope you don't mind. I'm very flattered and excited to be part of the rather ace exhibition, Lyrics & Type 2! Lyrics & Type is brought to you by Wooden Toy and VNA magazine. 16 creatives (including Allan Sanders, Nick Deakin, Eine and I Love Dust to name a few) have illustrated their favourite song lyrics to create beautiful 3 colour screenprints to be showcased and sold on the opening night and throughout the duration of the exhibition. Interested in having a look? I hope so! It's going to be awesome! The exibition is running from 8th April - 21st April at the EAST gallery on Brick Lane, London. I'll be there on the opening night, so if you're around.. Feel free to drop in and say hello!

The poster was designed by the rather awesome Timba Smits.

Stephs Favourite Illustrators: Tad Carpenter

Hello, Steph again! It feels like ages since I last posted.. Sorry! I hope you've all had a lovely week. If not, then it's the weekend! Yay. Todays post is about the rather great illustrator and designer, Tad Carpenter. I've been following Tad's lovely work on Flickr for a while now, it never fails to make me happy. Cute Characters and ace typography make Tad's work well worth checking out. I love his band posters.. have a look at them all here. Although my favourite work of his is just his characters. He makes some pretty sweet greetings cards too!

All images are taken from Tad's website.

Stephs favourite illustrators: Kris Atomic

Hello. I hope you all had a lovely weekend? It was so nice to finally get some sunshine... Spring's on its way! (Hopefully!)

If you're struggling to get in a Spring time mood then check out the super lovely work of freelance illustrator Kris Atomic. Kris' work is a beautiful mixture of elegance and pure playfulness. Her unique way of drawing people is irresistible! Kris runs a rather ace blog filled with her equally lovely photography and fashion posts. Her illustrations of the Miu Miu Spring / Summer collection are well worth a peek, check them out here!

All images are taken from Kris' website.

Postcards for Fred Flare

Nutcracker characters!

Hello!

Hello there! I'm Steph, the (very excited) guest author for *pur-ple for March. A big thank you to Louise for letting me run loose with her blog, I hope I can keep you all entertained with my posts.. I have some lovely artists to blog about! Right, now to introduce myself without sounding too silly.. My name's Steph Baxter (AKA. Steph Says Hello) and I'm a freelance illustrator from Leeds. When I'm not drawing cats, flowers or pigeons. I can usually be found drinking tea and hanging out with my cat. I love playful, happy art. Anything thats got an element of fun, or craftiness to it is my favourite. Right now I'm loving the character work of Gemma Correll and Anke Weckmann. Who are your favourites at the moment?

Oh, and I thought I'd post a few pictures of my work below, I hope you like them!

Love,

Steph

© Steph Says Hello

guest author - march

© Steph Says Hello

Yippeee... I'm really excited as *pur-ple has it's first guest author :)

Steph Baxter is going to be our guest author for March. (Hi Steph... big wave!) Steph's a freelance illustrator and graphic designer who's into typography, paper cutting, surface pattern, character & card design. You can find out more about Steph and her great work at her website www.stephsayshello.co.uk

Iv'e left it entirely up to Steph to decide what she posts about & I'm really, really looking forward to reading her posts!

... if you would like to be *pur-ple's guest author for April... then please do contact me :)