Thursday 29 August 2013

Summer on Skye: Outer Hebrides - Lewis {Part 2 - Town & Chessmen}


A few weeks ago I went to the Outer Hebrides, we visited Harris & Lewis {see Lewis part 1 of the trip and Harris}. Stornoway is the largest town in the Outer Isles, this is what we saw. . .

  
 colourful, characterful buildings. . .
   
a herring fisherwoman. . .

the Ferry in port from Ullapool. . .

 
Grey pastel sky and silhouettes. . .

Gaelic signposts. . .

  
and the oldest pub in town!

From Stornoway we travelled across Lewis to Uig Bay the place where the famous Lewis Chessmen were discovered in the 19th Century.

  
In tribute to the chessmen which were found in a sandbank at Uig in 1831 there is a huge wooden King carving near the beach. . .

  
 with an amazing beard. . .


      
and a Berserker {rook} and a Knight. . .

 
huge beaches with the blue sea in the distance. . . 

People as dots on the sand. . . 


  
 Footprints and grass into sand. . . 

 I loved how the tufts of plants and grass grow up through the sand taking over. . .

 No sea in sight. . .




  


and lush green fields and mountains in the distance.

Thanks Harris and Lewis, be back soon!


Thursday 22 August 2013

London for Show us Your Type

 

Show us your type is a great online project which showcases typography and cities, I've contributed to a couple of cities; my Berlin poster which made the exhibition in Barcelona in 2010, my Melbourne and Kingston posters. The most recent city is London and my poster, detailing 6 famous Londoners was chosen to be in the exhibition which is on at Central St Martins in the Atrium Windows from the 20th August - 12th September.  


See more photos of the exhibition here.

The next city in the project is Tokyo, it's a bit different this time as instead of posters they want animated gifs! the deadline is 23 November 2013, find out more on how to contribute here.

{Update:- You can now buy prints of my poster here on Society6}


Tuesday 20 August 2013

Wooden Tribal Brooches


I have a new collection of wooden brooches in my etsy shop featuring hand painted tribal patterns. They're great to jazz up an outfit or bag. A wearable painting; you can take a piece of art with you wherever you go!

  


   
  

Check them all out here along with my Haruki Murakami and Jane Austen author brooches and keep an eye out for more collections coming soon!


Friday 16 August 2013

Feature Friday: Rob Ryan Zines

Make Some Noise - Screen Printed Zine    
Two Sisters (Part 1) - Screen Printed Zine 
 

I've been a fan of Rob Ryan's papercut's for a while know and while they're great to look at online, they're inaccessible for most people to own and enjoy. But these zines that have just come out, work really well, the transient nature of paper, being screenprinted onto sugar paper in two colours, it's a perfect fit and they look amazing! Check them out here and here and Rob's website here. 
   

Wednesday 14 August 2013

Facebook Page

 
I've created a facebook page for my shop, so I'll be uploading lots of photos, blog post links and work in progress pics.


 Expect lots of embroidery, washi tape packing love, stationery, paints and inspiration. 

Do you have a facebook page?



Monday 12 August 2013

Packing Orders

 
 - Walden Screenprinted & Embroidered Tote Bag with a freebie postcard print and a thank you postcard from me featuring the Northern Lights -
I've sent off my first few orders from my Etsy shop and am really excited to make them look good and put in a few extras when I can, so I've been stashing and stocking up on great packing goodies!
-Buddy Holly Tote Bag with freebie Buddy postcard and badge (that went wrong and couldn't be sold)

I've found some patterned paper bags to put little extras in and will also be making my own out of brown paper bags and stamping/drawing onto them.

 
I've heard and seen a lot about washi tape {mostly on hello sandwich} and have always wanted to get some....and now have lots thanks to ebay and the beautiful Japanese store Uguisu. I had my first chance to use the airmail tape this week to send a package to California!

  
 I've also made myself a rubber logo stamp and got an alphabet stamp set and inkpad. . .
 
  to make some packaging for the new range of author badges in my shop...

and been using lots of coloured sharpies for drawing, decorating, shrink plastic making!

Want a nice package? Check out my shop, Louise Norman Studio!