Apologies for the radio silence (again! – a running theme for me?) but I have a new illustration to share with you today and a little story behind it. I recently came back from my cherry blossom trip in Japan (Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, Kobe – you name it I was cherry blossoming it) and felt inspired to draw something to celebrate all things sakura

I also wanted an excuse to illustrate the Louis Vuitton SS12 Woman’s RTW and nothing felt more natural than to illustrate the fairytale like dresses in a pretty, pink environment!

Please find “Cherry Blossom” below and some inspirational photos from my time in Japan. Enjoy! x

(even though for some reason it’s been snowing in some parts of the UK, it’s technically supposed to be spring :p)

Crazy huh? It’s my little ode to this spring’s palette and the art of wearing prints! No I’m not a huge print wearer (actually, make that -> I tried to buy some prints and failed) but I love the idea of wearing prints head to toe. I’ve matched some floral and geometric prints together in this illo and (gasp!) added a hint of *le sporty* with her casual pants and transparent jacket and um… what’s suppose to be perspex wedges.

For more print inspiration, check out NET-A-PORTER’S Techno Tropics trend edit here. Yes, it may hurt your eyes but try it, you’ll probably be able to pull it off more than me!

To celebrate such a lovely event here is a round up of a few snaps and sketches for you to enjoy. Happy Wednesday all! x

Limited edition Bourjois Round-pot box set that I designed with Bourjois >_<”

Image © James Basire

Image © James Basire

With the lovely Beverley Knight!

With the lovely Stacey Solomon and her pal >_<”

And now, a few of the sketches I drew/painted over the weekend! Please note, these are photos so the quality isn’t my usual art-scan level

Thank you Bourjois for inviting me to draw live and for giving me the opportunity to work with you, I have loved every minute of it!

Zx

The launch of this is still work in progress (or, WIP to show I’m web-wordy and in) but for now, here are the three protagonists and their names >_<”

The Higgs will be a fashion-inspired webcomic, centred around three best friends who are dolls – since Valentines is a day of love, I thought it would be great to celebrate friendship and all things sweet through this illo!

Their outfits are SS12 inspired and I have picked them to match each other. For the actual real-life pieces, look below, screenshots taken from Vogue.co.uk.

Anyway, whatever you’re up to today – let’s each loads of chocolate! Yay!

Zx

*My illustration for the event, which will also be printed on exclusive Bourjois box-sets of beauty pots, just for the occasion!

The Bourjois Pop-up Boutique is open from Thurs – Sun at various times and will feature makeovers, nail art, prizes, goodie bags and T4 will be there presenting too! I will be offering free personalised Bourjois-style sketches. Just come up to my area and let me sketch you and your friends!

The event is free and is based at the Beach Blanket Babylon Bar in Shoreditch, nearest tube is Old Street.

READ ON FOR MORE INFORMATION AND HOW TO GET THERE

Hope to see you there!

Zx

My painting “Beautiful Ensemble” will be exhibited with other artists’ work during the day market, and here’s a very little teaser of what to expect:

So if you’re in London on Sat 18th Feb, why not pop by to say hello and view the full piece? Day tickets to The Good Fashion Show are £5 each - there will be plenty of things to do with a day market of ethical and vintage clothing stalls, scented candles, organic cakes and cosmetics to browse and buy >_<. I will also be selling a very limited edition of prints and postcards of this exhibition piece, with a percentage of the proceeds going to charity.

If you’re looking for some catwalk action and live music, the evening runway show might be more your style – Omar (of this song’s fame!) will be opening the catwalk and there will be a lot of performances and fun. I will be there to soak up the ethical atmosphere!

READ MORE ABOUT THE GOOD FASHION SHOW’S EVENT HERE >>

BUY TICKETS FOR THE GOOD FASHION SHOW HERE >>

Hope to see you there!

Zx

We went for a cool, graphic style, as if she was a luxury fashion graffiti, but still with the delicate brush strokes in most of my work.

And here’s a photograph of it in use taken by Kristin Knox of The Clothes Whisperer – it was on the front of the Berlin Fashion Week program!

As always, it’s such a pleasure to work with ShopStyle and with every commission by them I feel a good challenge and also feel my work improving too (hope you to do!).

If you’d like to see more of my work with them you can win tickets to London Fashion Weekend (Feb 17th – 19th) – just enter on ShopStyle’s blog here!

Over and out x

My take is that it’s a pretty frill that covers your shape gracefully and gives you a beautiful silhouette. Having said that, it’s freezing at the moment and I’m padded out in a funky jumper, scarves, fingerless gloves and very thick socks, so in true wishful thinking style, I have drawn a quick sketch in honour of the cute SS12 shape to come:

I hope you like it! It’s interesting what can happen when you let the inks flow and do their own thing. Apart from the pencil sketch, I just let the brush do what it wanted to do and decided not to be controlling. It needs a bit more work but for now, I’m ok with it >_<

And now on to pretty interiors…

Over the weekend I visited a friend’s flat in West Hampstead. To my utter surprise her flat was decorated beautifully around some of my art prints. I loved it all so much I thought I’d share you photos of her beautiful flat! Enjoy and see if you can spot my prints! >_<*

If you like her style why not catch on her Twitter? Or visit her Tumblr x

So, to pick up a happy compromise I present a super quick sketch of five fun ways to feel like summer, but dress for winter. It’s not rocket science, it’s winter brights!

OK, maybe no 5 is a bit OTT >_<”

Here’s my first contribution to winter brights and it’s so easy to do – ombre nail art!

Hope you enjoy! x

I thought I’d do a fun comic sketch of some of my resolutions for you.

Enjoy! >_< x

PS I’m sorry Carlos of Nipponaisuki for drawing you in Alita’s cosplay in point 4, but, I couldn’t resist! x