A spot of high tea with Lucy Joy

Lucy Joy Oldfields work is largely driven by her love of eye catching objects and surface decoration. She tends to enjoy herself most when working in fine detail and trying to approach drawing with an uninhibited and non mechanical technique. Like us, Lucy is all about the charms of hand drawn wobbly lines.

Lucy has got some lovely treats in her Etsy Shop at the moment and tonnes more projects and beautiful illustrations on her blog. 

Ryan Robinsons got his fingers in all the pies

We spied David Ryan Robinsons work for the first time a couple of years ago whilst still at Salford Uni. We were running our Cheap Affair art and craft fairs at Islington Mill and Ryan held a stall with some other students selling their work, wares and home made cookies.


Ryan has been on the illustration / graphic design scene for a couple of years now and has racked up quite a few impressive projects including work for becks beers, the bbc, tba magazine, the Cornerhouse and Afflecks Palace. 

He has also had exhibitions all around the manchester area, including font bar (oxford road), odder bar (oxford road), nexus art café  and again Islington mill (salford).  He has also recently illustrated the “laugh your socks off” celebrity joke book, released for sports relief.

As if all of that wasn't enough to keep you interested, Ryan is also in the process of finishing off the album cover and a small illustration booklet for Allie Moss' new album, Late Bloomer, which will be available instore from around mid-April.

Stacie Swift and her animal parade

Stacie Swift is a freelance illustrator living and working in London and is also a full time student in her final year. We came across her illustrations on trusty old Facebook and just couldn't help but share her magical work with you all. 
Stacie enjoys drawing animals with human personalities, the more ridiculously proportioned or sickeningly cute the animal is the more desperate she is to draw it.

 
Stacie completes her drawings by hand and then whacks them into the computer to clean and edit digitally.  Her work is just plain fun and can be enjoyed by anyone with eyes. All of her illustrations are filled to the brim with light hearted humour,  bright bubblegum colours and lots of pattern.

Her most recent project is a range of illustrated greetings cards which are available from her Etsy shop here and she is soon to start illustrating a rather magical children's book. Also something else to look forward to from Stacie is a series of black and white animal portraits that will be exhibited in Hoxton mid February.

Look at that little pooch, definite winner of the next Crufts.

Make sure to check out Stacies blog, Flickr and Twitter for all the latest happenings. She is available for comissions, collaborations and all of your illustration needs.

Kristin Farr can brighten anyones day

Kristin works in any medium she can get her sticky fingers on. Painting, sculpture, textiles, and video are her main jams. In her art practice she thinks about nostalgia, humor, comfort, magic, color psychology, and positivism.

She has a neurologically-based condition called grapheme-color synaesthesia, which creates a complex relationship between her brain, color, and words, and has a significant influence on her work.

These bags are just too amazing! Gone are the nervous times waiting at luggage collection in the airport wondering if you're about to pick up your own bag or get clobbered for stealing.

Fun facts about Kristin:

Most recently she made a chair with arms for hugging, and a SharkBoard from kristin farr on Vimeo.

She has an amazing day job in which she has to interview and write about artists all day long, lucky girl!

She lives in Richmond, CA with her art partner in crime Jeff Meadows.

She is a regular guest artist on FreeCrappyPortraits.com where she draws exclusively in crayon (a girl after our own heart)

kristinfarr.com is her interwebsite

Here is a house I would like to live in....

NEW Fashion Nouveau online book out today!

Fashion Nouveau is a book looking at the influence of Art Nouveau on contemporary creative practices with contributions from various artists, illustrators, writers and other creatives.

Plugs'R'Us

We’re always on the lookout for artists who sell work and wares: prints, posters, jewellery, accessories, stationery, clothing, footwear, zines, homewares, bags, buttons, anything you can touch, you get the idea. All items must be available for purchase through your online shop.

Email eatyourcrayons@live.com with a link to your shop and a few lovely pictures for consideration.

Simon Corry !

Simon is a designer and budding scientist with a passion for telling stories. His ability to combine the creative, with the technical has afforded him the opportunity to work with a diverse range of clients from the New York Timesand the Royal Mail to WeTransfer and the Big Chill Festival.

Tape

Manchester based artist Ben Murphy is pretty smitten with the sticky stuff. His murals have been popping up around and about town recently, have you seen any? If not, you're missing out. Check his website, send him and email filled with nice words and he may just draw you a treasure map. 

Rockin Jewels for Rockin Gals

We caught up with the super talented Clare Dutton to chat about her handmade jewellery and accessories range Dolly Cool.

EYC: What is Dolly Cool all about?
Clare: Dolly Cool is inspired by my love of Rockabilly, Tattoos and the 50's and was created as I wanted to make affordable yet cool jewellery and accessories for people like myself.

EYC: We love that your jewels and accessories have an the edge on others working in the same field as yourself, tell us about it.
Clare: I hand make and finish each and every one of my products personally. Everything on the Dolly Cool website is unique and original, is not mass produced and is made with care by me.
Unlike a lot of other companies selling this type of product, I don't 'buy in' things to sell on, I make it all myself. I like to think that this is my Unique Selling Point in a very heavily saturated market.

EYC: So, not only do you make amazing one of a kind jewellery but you have your fingers in other pies too!?
Clare: As well as jewellery, I also own a professional embroidery machine, for which I design and make the embroideries myself. This has progressed to a small clothing line, which I sell exclusively at shows at present, and some pieces on ebay."

Dolly Cool can be found at various art and craft events boutiques and online stores, so there's no excuse not to grab yourself some gifts for Christmas. One for your friend, two for yourself!

Dolly Cool Jewellery
www.dollycool.moonfruit.com

In*The*Pink Jewellery
www.getinthepink.moonfruit.com

To find out more about Clare, her rockin' jewels and what she gets up to visit her blog:

http://dollycoolclare.blogspot.com/

Illustrators Newspaper from HYC

Pretty nifty newspaper from the guys at Hello You Creatives, filled to the brim with illustrators! I spy a little Tommy on page 3!

Cheap social uploading network platform group

We've been getting some really amazing work uploaded to the network platform recently but one of our favourites is Jack Gilliland, check out his Flickr and blogspot

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackgilliland-illustration/
jackgillilandillustration.blogspot.com

Free For Arts Festival 2010

 

yes yes y'all! manchester free for arts festival 2010 starts today all over manchester and for the next 8 days. we're in the free for all at picadilly place tonight 6-8 and the ddd mcr and toy shop also sound like some fun ones opening tonight so if you're about in manch between now and next friday check something out, full listings (a bit more legible) at: http://www.freeforartsfestival.co.uk/

blap.

Creative Control at Baltimore Book Fair

If you're in Baltimore head on down to the Creative Control independent art publications exhibition at Mt. Vernon Place where we have a selection of Cheap Zine on show as well as all of Tommy Eugene Higson's solo zines!! and don't forget to check out the rest of the Baltimore Book Festival!! (tell us how it is, we're slightly geographically challenged being in England and all..)

 

FLUFFER

An exhibition of Tommy and Nikkis colouring ins

The Deaf Institute, Just off Oxford Road,

Preview: Monday 20th October 6-9pm

Runs for 2 whole months!

We will be at the artists Fair at Bar Up

BAR UP Artist Fair
5 Union Cross Yard, Halifax, HX1 1TS
Saturday 4th September 2010, 12-5pm
Free entry

Original Art works for sale including Paintings, Sculpture, Photography, Sketches and Jewelery. Bring your comrades and enjoy the Friendly Atmosphere of one of Halifax's hidden Gems!

Also featuring work from:

Alice Bradshaw
http://www.alicebradshaw.co.uk/

 

Rachel Chambers
http://illustrationsbyrachel.com/

Tania Duncan
idontlikeyouoryou@msn.com

Faye Scott Farrington
Faz_@hotmail.com

Holly Hulse
http://www.bamboo-bear.blogspot.com/

Maaya Lad
http://www.maayalad.com/

Lucy Morrison
www.lfmartworks.co.uk

Pipo Handmade Paper based craft
www.zoeplatt.com

Chloe Small
http://www.chloesmall.co.uk/

lee wade
http://www.leewadeceramicsandjewellery.co.uk/

Lauren C. Waterworth
http://www.lcwaterworth.co.uk/

leeds alternative comics fair

The first Leeds Alternative Comics Fair will be held at A Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds on Saturday 18th Sept 2010, from 12-6pm. We will be selling Cheap as well as a few treats from Tommys zine collection!

http://leedsalternativecomics.wordpress.com/

Hello You Creatives are looking for illustrators!

"Hello You Creatives" are working on a newspaper project that is going to go out to a heap of agencies around England that use illustrators or represent them and are looking for submissions.
The deadline they need to meet in order to get print is Friday 6th August. Pretty soon I know, so theres no room for dilly dallying!

It is going to be printed in black and white so they can afford to get plenty made up, then if it's successful can get some of these agencies on board with funding see about taking it up a notch next time around.

The image can be no bigger than A4,  black and white, 300dpi and in TIFF, Hi-res jpeg or Photoshop EPS.

Send all submission to hycprint@gmail.com
http://helloyoucreatives.com/

fold-up drawings gallery

remember those drawings that you did when you were a kid when you folded a piece of paper up and drew a head then someone else did the body then someone else the head?

well we wanna make an online gallery with loads of them, put up as many of them as you want and we'll put up a page on our website to stream them from: eatyourcrayons.com/

head over here to join: 
http://www.flickr.com/groups/foldup/

Bradford Zine Fair 2010

I know we already mentioned it but here's the poster for a bit more info.

Three New Zines Available and Bradford Zine Fair 2010

We are pleased to announce we have three brand new zines available in the online store from Tommy Eugene Higson; My Name Is Casanova, Me Versus and I'm A Little Bit Scared Of What Comes After. Head over to grab one: http://eatyourcrayons.bigcartel.com/

Also we're happy to inform you we will be at Bradford Zine Fair this Sunday from 12-5 at the Impressions Gallery with all these new zines, tees and maybe a new Cheap? Who knows, not me.