Jojo Norris Illustration

Boy & the Bunnet (LIVE!) & Queen’s Hall Theatre

jojonorris — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:18:36 +0000

: It’s so much fun spotting Neil everywhere in scotland!

( I can’t believe that I actually subliminally coordinate with my illustrations!)

WOW I had such a wonderful weekend at TB&TB musical last weekend!

It was fantastic hearing the live music in connection with the book-
it actually brought me and my friend to tears, it was so beautiful!

Whilst I was up in that neck of the woods, I also got to take a quick peek at my latest illustration for Queen’s Hall Theatre!
Really happy with how the illustration of the violin came out on the
banners along the building wall and on the brochures too!

: Violin Display for Queen’s Hall

Also, I FINALLY set up a tumblr account!
Yay! So now you can follow/add/question,
(or whatever it is you do on tumblr.. as it’s all alien to me right now!)
and say Hi! You can visit me here! <(click me!)

Sorry for the rather eclectic post!
Life is rather hectic at the mo!
Night night all!
x

Sunday Herald Boy & the Bunnet sneak peek!

jojonorris — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:17:23 +0000

Sunday Herald double page spread!

Sunday Herald

(Click the images for a better close up)

Attached are some photos of today’s Sunday Herald! (Thanks Bryan!)

The Boy & the Bunnet in the Sunday Herald!

jojonorris — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:43:08 +0000

TODAY in the Sunday Herald you can get hold of a
FREE CD of the Boy and the Bunnet
featuring my illustration work AND the music from
the perfomance of The Boy and The Bunnet!

For those of you not living in bonny scotland you can read the article here!

You can see more details about the play and the
fully illustrated book here on their website.

You can pre order the book here too!

Happy Sunday! x

(Here’s a wee picture for you to meet the main characters!)

Angus and Bearnard

jojonorris — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:04:58 +0000

Meet Bearnard the bear and Angus the Heeland coo!
These are two original illustrations I did for an exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery.

I’ve popped these on Etsy for sale! You can see more of the images and the rest of my shop here.

Balach Na Bonaid (The Boy and the Bunnet)

jojonorris — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:55:18 +0000

It’s been forever since my last post.. so much has been happening!
I’ve got lots of exciting news and things, but the most exciting of all, is that

‘The Boy and the Bunnet‘ (or Balach Na Bonaid!)
A brave boy, a wee bunnet, a big adventure.

(a children’s book illustration project that I’ve been delighted to be involved in, and working on for a while now with Celtic Connections and Big Sky)
…. is actually being performed as a musical! How cool is that?

You can get tickets here, and see more about the project here!

I’m actually coming up from Nottingham to see the play in Feburary, so exciting!
I completely can’t wait, and it’ll be so lovely to be back in Scotland!

That’s all for now folks, but watch this space!

Bull Ring Yarn Bomb

jojonorris — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:27:23 +0000

Bull Ring Yarnbomb!

I spotted this yarn bombing happening in Birmingham Bull Ring today-
it’s utter GENIUS and definitely made passers-by smile! They gave him a wee warm jumper! (it was pretty cold to be fair!)

Here it is on the news!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-15991429

Robin Doodle!

jojonorris — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:44:21 +0000

A close up and personal pen/digital study of a robin to help get you all in the festive mood!
(He’s so fluffy!)

You can buy of copy of the wee robin online now!
(Click here to visit my shop! > http://www.etsy.com/shop/jojonorris)

Edinburgh Life Magazine!

jojonorris — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:25:46 +0000

My Doodle for Edinburgh Life's Christmas Edition!

To get you in the festive mood…
Here’s my cover illustration for Edinburgh Life Magazine available in shops now!

(Click on the image to buy Edinburgh Life today!!)

Deer Oh Deer!

jojonorris — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:08:38 +0000

Deer oh deer!

It’s been far too long since my last post! I’ve had my head in a graphic design cloud and my time consumed by full time work and also creating roughs for two of my commissions. (One of them the QH theatre!) Nothing too exciting to report really, but I’m in the process of creating a small scale piece for the ‘Open Eye Gallery’ in Edinburgh for their Christmas Exhibition, and I stumbled upon this pattern and pointillism concept. But I decided to go with a different ‘eye’dea (sorry..) and thought I’d share this with you anyway! I think I’ll make these into wee little christmas cards!:) Cheerio for now! x

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy…

jojonorris — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:39:42 +0000

: One for Sorrow..

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, Three for a Girl, Four for a Boy, Five for Silver, Six for Gold, Seven for a Secret Never to be Told, Eight for a Message from Over the Sea…

Where I’m living right now is magpie, heron and crow country, but over the weekend I spotted a huge amount of magpies, I was lucky enough to have my camera nearby and take some beautiful snaps before they all flew away.

On a random note, before I got here I also had a great fascination with silverfish as I hadn’t ever seen one, and I spotted one in my bathroom recently so I took the opportunity to take some photos of something that’s so alien to me!

: I named him Farthing..

And to end on a much sunnier note, I took some beautiful photographs of stormy skies with a rainbow from my window. I’ve been dedicating so much time on full time work and my private commissions I’ve not had much time to do any personal work. I’ll do an illustration Friday on here again soon I promise!

: Somewhere over the rainbow..

I’ll be back soon with doodles and drawings!