Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration Book Launch

So on Friday I was lucky enough to go to Amelia's Launch Party for the book at 123 Bethnal Green. Here is me with my plus one for the night, my lovely boyfriend James.

The venue was tucked behind a vintage shop, and the party was held on several floors, with the band 6 Day Riot playing on the upper floor, and a DJ set from the Pipettes, and later on Will from the Mystery Jets.

Illustrator Krister Selin with the Pipettes

The bottom floor was where I got this gorgeous goody bag, with customised moleskine and tatty devine necklace with the amelia logo... absolutely love the tote too!

And Here's the cake by Lily Vanilli.. it tasted and looked amazing, with the most delicious icing ever..

I had a great time meeting the designers and other illustrators who have also been published in the book, and who I also follow on Twitter. It was so great to finally meet them in person!

Illustrators Abby Wright, Myself and Krister Selin

Sally Mumby-Croft, Matt Bramf, Myself and Krister Selin

And here's Amelia Gregory looking great, Well done Amelia for organising such a great party!

Up in the air

Last week I entered a competition for 'This is something,' and my entry got picked as one of the prints to be sold at the event. It's happening next Tuesday, at Sixty Million postcards. If you are in and around Bournemouth you should definitely come :)

Mia Jafari Sketchbook Competition

I was asked to illustrate the winning scarf which was illustrated by Florence Bamberger.

My pages in Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration

If you read my earlier blog posts you will know that I won Amelia's Magazine's Open Brief Competition as one of the Illustrators to design a fashion collection and be featured in her latest book.

I finally got my copy of it over Christmas, a couple of days before in fact, and what a great present!

It was the same time last year that I was opening my Amelia's Anthology of Illustration, so to be actually in this installment is a little surreal!

I'm very happy with my pages, I think they turned out really well, all the pages are jam-packed full of colour and pattern. Especially loving the layouts Amelia has created, she's done such a great job!

I've been featured in Elle Magazine Denmark!

My illustration of Amelia Gregory got featured in the article.

It's a shame I can't understand what it says... also the front cover should be this image! Should have my copy of the book next week, can't wait to see my work in print!

Gulf of Mexico Endangered Species

So after 10 weeks work this is my final piece for my endangered species project. It's been great drawing scientific illustration, something I was curious to explore as I loved the intricacy and detailing. I enjoyed distorting this and bringing a contemporary twist to it.

I made sure I used layers to make it look like a pool that you could look into, with the piece's outer layer in the shape of the gulf of mexico. Inside the pool are layers of coral, water and the animals that reside there. The various animals are the endangered species which are decaying from the oil spill.

I've really loved getting into papercuts again, and using mixed media, it's been a great project to explore!

Silent Auction

So with the run up to christmas we are holding a silent auction at university. It's happening tomorrow, and this is the print I've submitted. It's of a blue throated Mackaw, and I'm hoping he goes to a good home!