Shiny lovely books
Posted by: Zo on: March 5, 2009
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My, aren’t I rubbish at keeping promises.
I do have something to make up for it though…Lovely hand bound shiny leather books, all for sale in my new store. Each one is made entirely from scratch, filled with lovely, smooth, acid free paper and finished with shiny inlaid paua shell and mother of pearl. Did I mention the hand made marbled endpapers?
Who said sketchbooks and journals had to be boring?
Sketchy sketchy sketchy
Posted by: Zo on: January 9, 2009
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Right, things I intend to post on this blog in the coming weeks.
- Interactive list doodles!
- The new range of lovely alternative valentines cards for the shop
- lots and lots of artwork, most of which is hanging around my desk half finished…
- And a few tutorials, starting with one on equipment, one on drawing with washes, and one on good old fashioned dots, squiggles, and cross hatching.
For now, have some random sketch book scribblings. And ooh, Happy New Year!
Mmmm interactive
Posted by: Zo on: December 15, 2008
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So, I have a new plan…an interactive plan. (woohoo!)
Basically, people send me a list of say, three things, (object, animals, abstract concepts…whatever you like) and I’ll turn them into an entertaining picture (which I’ll post here, obviously). I’m looking for a challenge, so be as mad as you like (just keep it vaguely suitable for work), and I’ll put a credit up with each picture to the person who sent in that particular list or combination.
Send your lists to doodlelists@googlemail.com and we’ll see how we go.
Here’s an example…A mug, a compass and a slightly shrivelled up orange, combination courtesy of my disgustingly messy desk.
The Beasts Boutique
Posted by: Zo on: November 12, 2008
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It’s here! Alternative greetings cards, original art and (coming very soon) limited edition DoodleBeasts prints. Just in time for Christmas. (Wait till you see what we’ve got for Valentines day) 
Baddabing, Baddaboom.
Posted by: Zo on: November 3, 2008
And the award for longest time between posts goes to…It’s me isn’t it, again. Woops.
Despite a plethora of evidence to the contrary, I am in fact still alive, and very much putting lots of efforts in to the creation of beautiful, artiful things. This week I have mostly been drawing ugly fish, and snowmen, and pumpkins. All will be revealed shortly, really it will. In the mean time, have some Halloween goodness, a week late, naturally.
The fiery orb, it blinds!
Posted by: Zo on: October 8, 2008
First of all, apologies for the lack of postings, I’ve been holed up in a fairly dark room banging away on greetings card designs. They’re almost done, which means the shop really is almost ready to go on line.
I’m also just a bit scared that my particular brand of madness may not be quite as marvellous as I’ve spent the past few months convincing myself that it is. I find that locking myself away is the best way (for me) to come up with creative stuff…it does however mean that I’m never quite sure whether what I’m doing is crappy or you know, blindingly brilliant (or worst of all, mediocre, ahh!) . Human nature innit.
If in five years time if I’m stupidly rich and famous, feel free to point to this post and laugh…In fact, that’ll probably work if i’m living in a cardboard box as well. 
The Escape
Posted by: Zo on: October 1, 2008
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Acrylic and Gouache
This is yet another one for the shop, I’ve also got a lovely bunch of steam punk stuff and some alternative greetings cards ready to be launched very soon indeedy…watch this space.
Mmm, Steampunk
Posted by: Zo on: September 24, 2008
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I thought it was finished, I swear…but then I figured if you’re going to go down the Victoriana / Steampunk / ooh-look-machines-with-flappy-wings road then you might as well go the whole hog.
This is one for the shop…it’ll be on line just as soon as I figure out a sensible and fair method of pricing. It would probably help if I stopped giving art away to people just for being lovely, cause lets face it, lots of people are lovely, and I’m still skint.
*Edit*
So er, the stumbleupon link for this post sort of went of the map (by my standards) over night…I guess that means I know what direction my art is going to go over the next few months! Seriously, thank you to all the people who’ve said they like this, although, comments would be nice! 
Zx
Selling your soul to the devil…
Posted by: Zo on: September 16, 2008
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I switched on the telly this morning and splat bang there on the BBC was news of Damien Hirst’s record Sothebys sale. £70.5 million for 54 lots, £8.5 million just for the pickled shark…And these things, not even created by the artist himself, but manufactured by hundreds of assistants, employed to literally churn out ‘original’ Damien Hirsts. I can only assume that the super rich who buy these things are actually insane.
The whole thing is a carefully planned show, masterminded by Hirst and his accountant. It’s the art equivalent of a really crappy boy band, and more than anything it makes me sad. Hirst and his ilk are supposedly the best artists in Britain, the most daring…the most rebellious, and actually they’re just part of the same old media circus.
Where did all the talent and creativity go exactly? People can’t have any less innate potential now than they ever did, and yet all we can manage is three minute pop songs and a pickled fish. The Scandinavians have been pickling fish for millennia. A jar of pickled herring doesn’t cost 8.5 million, it makes the point just as well, and when you get bored of it, you can eat it. Maybe the person that bought Hirst’s shark just wants to make a giant rollmop . It makes more sense than having the thing in your living room, you’d need a big gherkin though.
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