Trip to Rocher des Aigles in France!










I've been meaning to post these photos up for a while now. These are just some of the photos I took when I visited a place called Rocher des Aigles in Rocamadour, France, whilst on holidays there in June. It was amazing!

Wedi bod eisiau rhoi y lluniau yma fyny es dipyn rwan. Dyma jyst rhai o'r lluniau nes i dynnu pan nes i ymweld a lle o'r enw Rocher des Aigles ym Rocamadour, Ffrainc, tra ar wyliau yno yn Mehefin. Odd o'n amazing!


Finch-eriffic!

Aderyn y To / House Sparrow

Llinos Werdd / Greenfinch

Nico / Goldfinch

Titw Tomos Las / Blue Tit
Ok, so a Blue Tit is not a finch it's a tit, but I made it before deciding on making a 'finch print' or drawing a collection of finches! But my next bird drawing collection will be tits (lol @ tits) so I've already made a Blue tit in preparation for it! Anyway, I made these on cartridge paper using pencil and colour in Gouache. I think I prefer gouache to watercolour, it's more pigmented and colourful. I just looove colour :)

Anyway, I hope you're all having a fabulous 4-day-weekend :) xxx

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Work in Progress / Gwaith ar ei hanner

Gylfinbraff / Hawfinch

Ji Binc / Chaffinch

Coch y Berllan / Bullfinch

These are birds I've been drawing recently (more to show you soon) which I want to make into print soon, and other various things! I love drawing birds, I think birds and architecture are my favourite subjects but I just love drawing in general :)

With making a print, I wasn't sure if I should use one bird and repeat, or should I use all the birds (there are another three to add to these, making it 6 birdies [all finches] in total) into one print?



I started this drawing a while ago, and when going through old magazines came across this in the middle! Lucky that I didn't just throw the  magazine out. So I'm looking forward to finishing this and showing you again soon. Hopefully I won't leave my blogging as long as last time. I'm hoping to blog once a week or fortnight now :)

I took these photos on instagram if you want to follow me @AnnaGwenllian



Commission / Comisiwn


Dyma darn nes i fel comisiwn cyn y Nadolig, a mond rwan dwi'n blogio am y peth! Dwi'n hapus iawn efo sut mae o wedi troi allan a dwi'n gobeithio bod y person sydd efo fo'n hapus hefyd!

This is a piece I made as a commission just before Christmas and I'm only now coming around to blogging about it! I'm very happy with the outcome and I hope the person who has it now is happy too!

Mail Art to Jessica Gowling!









This is the mail art I sent to Jess (twitter @jessicagowling - http://www.naturesmyfriend.wordpress.com/) a while ago! I'm only now getting round to showing what I sent! This was the second mail art I've sent Jess, and I think I'm getting better...well I hope I am :) but I'm enjoying doing it and I hope Jess likes my mail art treats, cos I enjoy getting hers, heeheehee!

xxx

Mail Art from Harriet Gray and Luke Waller ! ! !

Zine from Luke Waller

other side of the zine

business card with shiny crown!




authoritative kitty! and a hiding birdie :)

cuuuute kitty

cat-box!

what I got in the lucky dip from Harriet Gray



sticker!


I got these two beautiful mail art from Harriet Gray (www.harrietgray.co.uk) and Luke Waller (www.lukewaller.co.uk) a few weeks ago but been so busy that it's only now I've been able to blog about it!!

I got this amazing zine from Luke, it's brilliant, wowza!! This will definitely be going up on the wall, hee hee. And I got this beautifully brilliant lucky dip from Harriet with a greeting card which I should probably use and give to someone but I might be selfish and put it up on my wall too! Now I just need to find somewhere to put her stickers...

xxx

'When We Were Young' exhibition (opening soon!)


My pieces framed and already sent up to the exhibition up in Newcastle, which previews on December 1st, eee exciting!

The Birds

The Tree House

The Board Games
Here are the posters, three different designs, for the exhibition.

Poster design 1 by SAUL

Poster design 2 by German Orozco
Poster design 3 by Meee!
Yay! How exciting! This exhibition is curated by Bruce Parker (http://brucey-art.com/) which features international artists to create piece(s) to the theme 'When We Were Young', and I'm one of those artists eeee!!!

If you are around Newcastle on the preview night, 6pm-8:30pm December 1st, or between the preview and January 7th 2012, then get down to  La Boca Art Cafe to see the 'When We Were Young' exhibition.

xxx

I won Anna Jane Searle's Giveaway prize, yipee!

the packaging unfortunately didn't make it...!






I found Cauldron Snout!







The brilliant illustrator Anna Jane Searle was holding a giveaway on her blog (check her awesome blog out HERE!) which I entered amongst many others. And guess what? I was the lucky one who won!!! As you can see! 

Aren't these AMAZING!!!! I was, and still am, so happy when this arrived on Thursday! I carefully tried to open this box for ages because the wrapping was a beautiful map, but it started to rip, then some more and in the end I couldn't wait to open it so I just had to rip it open! So beautiful, and so delicate. The inside of the box is absoloutely stunning, beautiful colours and so intricate! I think my favourite is the Amethyst Crystal. But they're all brilliant :D Thank you Anna!

xxx

Eeeee new mail art from Jessica Gowling!

look at the cute snowy owl!


silver wood-effect lined envelope, ahhhh!

inside!

this was on the other side of the Gnu card (above, top left) tee hee :p
i LOVE these birdie cards, too cuuute!

six! there are six bunnies! and one bear...

porcupine!! is it?

le pretty stag!

beautiful feather piece with William Shakespeare quote, thank you Jess!

You might've seen my other blog posts about mail art to and from Jessica Gowling (twitter @JessicaGowling, see her blog HERE!) and here's her mail art to me this time! Isn't it preeeettyful?! So much beautiful stuff, and very detailed. I love it :)

Thank you so much for this beautiful mail art Jess, it's gorgeous! Now I need to find a frame for the feather piece and the stag! It's my turn next to send something :) and after this I'm feeling very inspired! And a massive congratulations to you on your engagement, very happy for you! Paaaartay!

xxx


Mail art to Jessica Gowling (My first ever mail art)!

mail art to Jessica Gowling
print, postcard, stickers, stamps, tags
origami!

close-up!


Yipee! I finally made my first ever mail art to Jessica Gowling (go check out her beautiful blog http://naturesmyfriend.wordpress.com/ and twitter @JessicaGowling) ! I hope you like it Jess :) it's taken me quite a while actually to make this and collect pretty things for it :-/  hopefully next time I won't take as long and it will be better, once I get into the swing of things! Maybe then I can start making mail-art to more people... but at the moment I'm happy with just making and sending mail art to Jess :p

xxx

stuff i got printeds in stuff!

pocket mirrors!

teeny business cards!

stickers! blurry photo, oops!

postcards!
Yipee! My pocket mirrors arrived today from Awesome Merchandise, so I thought I'd blog to show you them and also my moo order I got a couple weeks ago. These will be added to my shop soon, when I can officially open my shop! (since there isn't anything there at the minute...) Wiii!!

xxx

GREAT Cormorants!




I actually made these a couple weeks ago but only now getting round to blog posting about them, sooozzzz my bad! I was reminded to make this post cos I actually saw a Great Cormorant a couple of days ago. It was bootifuuullll! It was a juvenile though I think cos his chest was white. He was sunbathing then he went fishing in the water! It was amazing for how long it would stay underneath the water, and how far he could travel under the water.

ANYWAY that's enough on that. I'd like to draw more of these, so I'll get round to that in my new bigger square sketchbook, which I finally found! It's just a plain hardback black cartridge paper one, bout 8"x8" so i'm looking forward to filling it up with birdie wirdies!

Laters alligatorsss xxx

I need your help with business cards!

I've been staring at these for so long I don't even know if they look ok anymore! I keep looking at them thinking, is the font ok? Is the image ok or should I use a different one? Should I just keep the font all the same on the front?! Bah I'm stuck! Which is why I need your help, I need another pair of eyes :)

Which do you prefer? Any suggestions are welcome (more than welcome, it would be great!)

xxxTHANK YOU!xxx

raving ravens!





I've been drawing a lot of birds recently (more than usual!) and last week I started doing a lot of ravens (no reason in particular I just like 'em). I like making more than one drawing of a bird, because they're always different, and I like drawing them sitting, flying, close ups etc.! I've decided to start making a book/sketchbook of birds like this... so for each double page there'll be one bird, and maybe more I don't know I'll see how it goes! But I'll let you know when I've started cos I need a nice sketchbook first!

Next post I need your help about business cards for me, I've started to design some but can't decide on which design or what background!!!

Anyhoo, I hope you're all having a lovely weekend :)

xxx

mail art!

When I got back from France Sunday eve, I was so happy to get back to this little package! I was so tired, but when I saw this I rushed to open it and see what little treats were inside, and I was thrilled! This mail art is the first ever mail art I've had and it's from the lovely Jessica Gowling (@jessicagowling) all the way from Canada. THANK YOU JESS!!! x
LOOK WHAT THE POSTMAN DID!!!

That's better!
Loadsa treats, yay!





I feel so inspired from this now, and I can't wait to make a little package ready to send back. I've already started collecting and making things! This will be my first ever one to send out too. Yay for mail art!! :)
xxx

bonjourrr!


Last week I was on holiday in the middle (ish) of France, and I got back Sunday night. I was so tired, I still am, very carlagged and ferrylagged. If you can have jetlagged you can have the others...right?! I mainly relaxed, laid out in the sun, go for walks, eat, and visited a zoo! Which you can tell from the photos... 

le om nom nom!


tiny frog!
One day we went to this lake and I noticed something small on the ground, at first I thought it was a bug but closer I got I realised it was a tiny frog! Then I started seeing them all around me, they were everywhere! I was trying not to stand on them. You can see how small they were from the scale of the clovers.
mmmacarons!

a chateaux nearby!

even the signposts have flowers ahhh!


too fast for me
This li'l duckling was at the zoo walking about  with his mum (I assume) and it was running around my feet tweeting and looking for food! I tried taking photos but it was too quick and I gave up to just look at him. Then he tried to eat my laces on my ballet pumps! TOO MUCH CUTENESS!!!
monkeys eating leaves from a branch a zookeeper threw in

a green macaw!

family of giraffes

monkey news!!!
This little monkey was roaming around the park by itself (it was allowed to, and there were others too) and it was on the fence of the meerkat pen, you can see a meerkat in the background. I saw another one stealing fruit from a parrot!

le mont st michel
Stopped by the beach on the way back to go look at le mont st michel in the distance! So pretty.

le fox!
I saw it pounce at something and first of all I thought it was a cat (it was far away as you can see!) but then realised it was a fox! So much animals and birds... bah!
lols.

super cuuute!
I think this was a juvenile house sparrow, it was just staying around our feet in the outdoor cafe at the zoo. There were loads of house sparrows there eating off the tables and narrowly missing our heads!

sketchbook
I saw (and heard) loads of birds  when I was there and tried to sketch them afterwards from memory with some notes, so obviously not brilliant ones! I'm still trying to figure out what a couple of them were... I also heard this craaazy loud noise, first of all I thought it was a stable full of ducks on a farm nearby, then thought there was a large cage with exotic birds. After going the zoo, I heard the noise there again, and found out it was the frogs! They were louder than the animals there and they weren't even big ones. LOLZZZ!
ferry on the way back, bleugh!!!
Ahhh, there you go! It's difficult to pick which photos to put up here, I've got loads so I'll post more on my tumblr! Teehee :)
xxx