Thanks to a very talented product photographer, Becky Palmer, here are my illustrations as used by National Trust Stowe this year.
 Watersoluble ink on A5 paper. The Illustration Friday prompt for this week is Toy.
Here is a drawing of my dog's chewed toy squirrel. What do you think? Please leave me a comment below.  The Aloo Tree, ink © Sue Pownall 2013 I'm really enjoying being an illustrator for the short story site, The Story Shack. Not only do I get different subject matter to illustrate, but I get the opportunity to use different styles. Above is this month's illustration, The Aloo Tree, whilst below is February's, How to Fail at Telemarketing.  Pen & watercolour wash illustration.© Sue Pownall 2013  Coffee. Pen & coffee © Sue Pownall 2013 Finally, here is January's illustration. It's drawn in ink and coffee. You can see more of myStory Shack illustrations here on this site under the illustration tab. Also, you can read the stories How to fail at Telemarketing and Coffee by clicking the titles, whilst you'll have to wait to read The Aloo Tree until it's published on the 18th.
Thank you for visiting my blog and I always appreciate the comments left. Sue  Year of the snake © Sue Pownall 2013 Just for fun, a drawing to celebrate the Chinese New Year, which since Sunday is the year of the snake.
Reference photo from BBC Nature site. Chinese followers- I apologise for the bad calligraphy. Last year's Chinese New Year's drawing can be viewed here: Year of the dragon ***** Whilst you are here, you can see my first drawing of 2013, a commission, in Gallery 1. I'd love to know what you think of that and/or the snake. Please leave a comment by clicking "comments" under the title. Thank you. A review of 2012 For 2012, I had 3 words to guide me: Focus, Vision, Produce. From those words I had 3 resolutions of which some were more successful than others. 1. To produce a minimum of one finished piece per month. Yes. Looking in the folder on FB there are 15 drawings for 2012. I have also produced 6 published illustrations and two commissioned portraits. Yea me - my most productive year to date. Whilst I still prefer to draw buildings and landscapes I have enjoyed working on my portrait series: Festival Faces, of which the first one sold and is now hung in its Australian home.   2. To exhibit at least twice in the year. hmmm... This didn't exactly work out as I thought as I didn't have any work in exhibitions. However, I did end up with work hung in 2 galleries. Through the OSFA, I submitted a piece to an exhibition in September, however the exhibition has been delayed and so will be hung sometime in the new year. 3. Continue marketing myself. Yes. Throughout the year I continued to blog, both on my site and blogger, tweet and keep my facebook page up to date. I distributed over 100 business cards throughout the year and I had a stall at a winter fair in order to get publicity here in Oman. Also, I was interviewed on the local radio (click to hear it) and had newspaper articles on the of the sketching events I arranged. Surprises from 2012. A lovely surprise was following an email from the author Diana Baur, I produced both the cover illustration and section illustrations for her novel True Vines.  My illustrations and the published novel.  Something else I didn't anticipate was to start illustrating for the online short story site The Story Shack. To date I have had 3 illustrations published with more due in 2013. Finally, a lovely surprise was getting to participate in a 100 artist wall art collaboration, which tested my little used painting skills, and led me to work alongside both Omani and international artists. Resolutions for 2013  2013 will see my art taking second place throughout the year. Following my month in Barcelona, my love for that city was renewed and my long-term goal is to move there. However, I'm not sure if financially I can do it within 2013. Like many artists I have to work to pay the bills and I also have a flat in Italy which as a partial renovation project needs work and money, so I have just secured a new job here in Oman with a better package. With the higher salary comes longer working hours, a necessary trade in order to reach my goal. The flat is for sale, if anyone is interested in a holiday home in the beautiful Pollino National Park, Calabria. Therefore, throughout 2013 my resolution and goal will be on getting my finances in order, so I can move to Barcelona as soon as possible. Of course, my sketchbook will remain with me throughout 2013, I already have 2 commissions for drawings and further illustrations to do for The Story Shack. Also, I plan to go to the Urban Sketchers' 4th Symposium in July and... well who knows what other arty things will happen, but obviously my art passion will not be totally neglected. On a personal level, I resolve to eliminate but from my vocabulary and only focus on positive aspects. I also need to make sure I exercise throughout the year. May you fill lots of sketchbooks, produce lots of art, and have many laughs, health & happiness in the forthcoming year. *****
What do you think? Please leave me a comment by clicking "comments" under the title. Thank you.  True Vines. A novel with illustrations by Sue Pownall. Today, I received my copy of True Vines by Diana Strinati Baur and published by Gemelli Press. I love how my illustrations have been used. I originally posted the cover illustration for this novel on my old blog back in October, just before publication, but hadn't seen how the other illustrations had been used.
This novel by Diana is beautifully written and hard to put down. I recommend you get a copy now. True Vines is available in soft copy, kindle & nook from Amazon (uk, com, de...) and direct from http://gemellipress.com/portfolio/true-vines/ 
Yesterday, an illustration I drew on The Story Shack appeared online for the short story Pottering About in Thailand.
To see the illustration onsite and read the story please click this link: The Story Shack. If you like my drawing and/or the story, the writer and I would appreciate your vote on the page.  Book cover illustration by Sue Pownall Earlier in the year I was approached by Diana Strinati Baur to illustrate the book cover of her forthcoming novel True Vines. This was the secret project I mentioned on my facebook page back in March. It is due to be published in paperback and eformats on the 1st November by Gemelli Press.
Above is my original illustration and how it was used for the cover.  Crooked Stile: A study. 18x18cm ©Sue Pownall 2012 The theme for Illustration Friday was Crooked. Luckily for me although here in Muscat it is Friday, and a new theme is due, it's still Thursday in USA and I can post this last minute submission. I was thinking of using Cathy's idea of a crooked tree (see her lovely entry here) when I remembered this poem and I produced this drawing. The stile is actually an element in a idea for a drawing I've been toying with for a couple of years, so maybe now I will start on it.
There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse. And they all lived together in a little crooked house. “The origin of the nursery rhyme "There was a crooked man" is in British history. The origin of this poem originates from the English Stuart history of King Charles 1. The crooked man is reputed to be the Scottish General Sir Alexander Leslie. The General signed a covenant securing religious and political freedom for Scotland. The 'crooked stile' referred to… being the border between England and Scotland. 'They all lived together in a little crooked house' refers to the fact that the English and Scots had at last come to an agreement. The words reflect the times when there was great animosity between the English and the Scots.” (Source: http://www.rhymes.org.uk) |
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I am a nomadic artist travelling the world for inspiration. Here, I publish my sketchbook work alongside my new finished pieces. 
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