Jennifer's Paradise.. sold!

Excitingly I have sold my Jennifer's Paradise painting which I have been exhibiting with The Curious Duke Gallery. I hope it's very happy in its new home..

I have several others from the paradise series on exhibit that are available here...

http://curiousdukegallery.com/artists/28-katherine-tromans

Fashion Commission

Once again I have been working for Asibelua, the high-end african fashion brand over the past month. I have been working on producing illustrations for the new upcoming range for primary school children and secondary school children. 

Portraits .. Christmas/Movember

I have created a lot of portraits as of late, mainly because I was involved with Movember, the charity that donates to Prostate Cancer. But also because I was asked to do several for Christmas presents.. Here is my most recent one..

Please get in touch if you would like a portrait!

Merry Christmas

Hello Everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, I have been super busy.. hence not making that many posts as of late, sorry followers.. this does mean I have a lot of new work to post up though :)

Movember

So here is my Movember effort! It's a self-portrait with a tasche-twist.

The self-portrait was done for the Gallery of Mo, raising money to support prostate cancer initiatives in the name of Movember. You can visit the website here:  www.galleryofmo.com

So feel free to commission me for a tasche-portrait,  and I am also taking on other portrait commissions currently so get in touch before Christmas is here :)

I do portraits at these prices:

A4 - £20
A3 - £30

so be sure to let me know :) I will be doing christmas cards soon also, so expect some more blog posts!

The Curious Duke

For the past two months I've been exhibiting with Premiere Art, run by the lovely Eleni Duke! My paintings will be on exhibition over the Christmas period at the Curious Duke Gallery, located on Whitecross Street, East London if you wish to check out the exhibition :)

Birds.. more birds.

For some reason the birds I uploaded earlier didn't all appear so here they are again! :) will be adding another 5 soon...

If you want to check out my facebook page it is here:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Katherine-Tromans-Illustration/100967709996688

I update this a lot with my work in progress so it's best to follow me here too! :)

New work.. Wedding Stationery - birds, lots of birds.

I have been working on wedding stationery for the past month. The task was to create colourful birds for each of the tables, so far I have done 5 of 10, I will be posting more up soon! 

Mural work - Artist Residency

Between May- July I worked part-time on a large 8ft x 8ft mural at Oldswinford Hospital School. It was a great project and I got to work with the school boarding community. I worked with the year 7s, teachers and matrons to create an artwork that represented each of the boarding houses. We included the names of influential members of school, and documented memorable events and quotations. The school has over 400 years of history so it was interesting piecing the tree together!

Ladyhawke Competition - Talenthouse

So I entered Talenthouse's Competition to design artwork for Ladyhawke and Sarah Larnach. I absolutely love both Ladyhawke and the artwork of Sarah Larnach so this challenge was pretty fun!

The theme was anxiety, and I chose to base it around my sister and her fear of the unknown. I did two versions but went with the bottom choice below as I wasn't sure if the purple around it detracted from the main image.

If I win the competition I get to be on Ladyhawke's 12" LP so I'm pretty excited!!

That's why it would be great if you could support me/vote for me :) you can vote here, voting opens later today for a week!

http://www.talenthouse.com/creativeinvites/preview/a617e479c405d4a70d449609b63e4546/510

Baby portrait

So here's my first baby portrait. If any of you would like a portrait please get in touch! :)

An update of what I've been up to lately..

I've been pretty busy lately, last month I received the news that my proposal from last year had been agreed, and that I had received the funding to create a Mural at Oldswinford Hospital School.

This is going to be a great project and I've just drawn up a draft so will be able to post that up soon!

I've been working pretty consistently for Inspire by Design, here's a little bit of what I've been doing there..

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I also did this illustration for Film Fatale Magazine, which is to be launched soon, can't wait to get my copy. The illustration I did of Jessica Chastain will be on the front cover.

Greeting cards I have been working on recently...

I have just started working for a greetings card company who have taken me on a freelance basis, so you should see a lot more giftwrap/cards and pattern appearing shortly..

I am currently working on Christmas cards for 2012, so here are a few working examples..

SS12 Feminine pastels

I've been doing more fashion illustration recently and I really loved Chanel's use of pastel colours in their Paris show, so I illustrated one of their catwalk fashions.

I think pastels are going to be big next season!

Card designs

Here are a couple of card designs I have done recently, and I will be uploading more Christmas ones in the next week.

Recent happenings

As you may or may not know I've recently been illustrating vintage fashion for the Cherry Closet Boutique, and here are some of the prints I'm going to be selling at the What Alice Found shop in Boscombe.

I'm also working on opening an etsy shop, it's about time really! So I will be selling the prints there too. (I'm currently working on some christmas cards, which will be available to buy soon)

Additionally, I was interviewed by The Artfuls about my work. Here's the link if you wanted to have a read! http://www.theartfuls.com/interviews/katherine_tromans

Cherry Closet. Winter Edition!

Here's my latest illustration for the Cherry Closet's vintage fashions. Which are available at What Alice Found, Boscombe.

Going to be making up prints of this in A4 and A3 size later for the shop, as well as some of the others I've been drawing. Please let me know if you would like one :)

October Private View

A couple of nights ago I attended the second private view I have been involved with at Debut Contemporary. Like the previous private view I have been exhibiting my original illustrations and I am currently exhibiting James' Paradise which will be in the gallery for the next month.

Asibelua S/S 2012

These are some of the illustrations that I produced for Asibelua, the african fashion brand. They will be part of the Spring/Summer 2012 Sale Book.

www.momostyles.com

James' Paradise - New Work for October Private View

As you may know I'm exhibiting a few of my original paintings, and prints at Debut Contemporary in London, and here is my newest work which will be on show at the October Private View!

It has taken me three weeks to complete and is A1 in size. I created the paradise on the basis of the description James gave me, and this is the result.

To make the picture I studied a lot of plants and flowers from the botanical gardens, as well as including strata, and rocks that I had photographed from the south coast.

I am really happy I am able to show you all. I will be making it into prints if anyone is interested.