Mrs Fox!

I’ve had a lovely free weekend so I’ve managed to get my sewing machine out and create Mrs Fox!
Using odds and ends of fabric I started off with a basic pattern, but I wanted to modify it from a bear to a fox, so I had to kind of wing it in parts, I’m pretty happy with how she turned out but I’d like to make her again as there were a lot of issues with her face shape etc that didn’t quite work!  I’ll keep you posted!
Thanks for stopping by!
Jojo x

Illustration Friday: Jump

Okay so I’ve already done an Illustration Friday today.. but the first one didn’t count.. maybe!
..I think I must be feeling super crafty at the moment.

I’ve painted this little dude in my boyfriend’s lovely Citadel paints (..awesome shades like ‘bubonic brown’!)
This grasshopper is getting ready to jump off the page!

(Be sure to check out my Facebook page! http://www.facebook.com/JojoNorrisIllustration)

Thanks for looking!
Jojo x

Scarf Sloths!

Using two old scarves that I never really wore anymore, I cut them both into various shapes and sizes, used a bit of sewing machine magic, fluffiness, and voila! I created these rather cute two toed sloths! I added  the buttons and the limbs on afterwards by hand. The eyes were a bit more complicated as they needed to be put in before I sewed up the nose, but a little bit of guesstimation went quite a long way!

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Book Binding!

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Here are some of my most recent book bindings,  including a Long stitch book, an  Album style book and Japanese book binding.

I used some of my screenprint tests and experiments to bind and put in the Album book!

Wal-r-us!

Well.. I decided it was time to finally get some of my work into print, so I’m now selling tshirts and prints of these rather lovely fellows:

Wal-r-us!

I’m screenprinting these beautiful creatures tomorrow onto plain white tshirts. They’ll be A3 size on the shirt,  looking up lovingly at you from the bottom half of the shirt. (See the pictures tomorrow!) These are 3 colour, limited edition prints so if you’re interested you’ll have to snap them up quick! And If they’re proving popular I’ll print more! Sizes come in S, M, and L.

Please email me with the size you need! jojonorris@hotmail.com (or just give me a text/facebook message) Its a first come first serve basis at the moment!!

The shirts will cost a mere £16 and you’ll be able to buy them off my etsy account.. which I will have up and running by tomorrow!

The 2D prints cost £8 each! They’ll be window mounted (slightly larger than A3 size)  and popped in the post along with a piece of strong card so they dont’ get bashed on their journey!

Please get in touch with any orders!!

Cloud Necklace!

Cloud Necklace

This is is my first jewellery piece! One side of the raindrops are white and the other side is blue so when you walk it really shows the movement and it looks like it’s raining! (..kind of!). It has a lovely wibbly effect when you move and makes a cute tinkling noise!

I’m going to do a series of these, like storm clouds, hot air balloons and birds!

I’m going to set up a shop (probably on Etsy.com) so I can finally sell my work!

Necklace

Merchandise!

The first of many little cute awesome things: tiny buttons filled with my drawings.

Im also in the process of making a little washing line necklace from shrinky plastic that has detatchable charms so you can choose what you put out to dry for the day!:)

Owl and Lion Gallery Comp – Collective Nouns

A statue of Pigeons and An ugly of Walruses. Both hand drawn and then coloured in photoshop. Still no news from the gallery about who was chosen, but Im guessing I would have heard by now, so these are soon to be screenprinted onto bags, tshirts and other awesome things. Im hoping to start a shop on here somehow. That is if my technical skills stretch that far!:)

An ugly of Walruses

Statue of Pigeons

Illustration work

Digitally edited line drawing for 'Life of Pi' book cover.

dry point plate scanned and edited on Photoshop

This is my first ever knitted scarf: it was a Christmas present for my boyfriend. I made it far too wide originally and I didnt have the heart to go back, as I was really happy with how it was going. Two colour wool with a felt robot detail.  Many more scarves to come!:)

hand knitted with robot felt design