Feef Illustration

2011-10-28T16:53:00.002+01:00

Two more cut-out collagey things from the series 'all is ash and sorrow'. It concerns itself with pyromania and the shitty things people do in the name of 'love'. But you'd probably need to see all nine for that to be clear. And it still wouldn't be.

I'm attempting to exhibit the full nine pieces, hence me not uploading them all, but, once that idea fails, I'll probably put them out as a zine or something.

2011-10-11T11:12:00.003+01:00

Let's not mess around, I had a whole lot of roses that I needed to use for stuff. Plus I'm messing about with gouache trying to make it work as watercolour instead of using it for flat colour. So here are some results of that.

fightless bird/sea otter

2011-09-21T11:44:00.000+01:00

2011-09-08T16:48:00.002+01:00

This is the cover of the wonderful and talented poet Sarah Dawson's forthcoming poetry ebook. I drew her some sea creatures and it was fun. Now go to her blog.

Finally

2011-09-07T20:16:00.004+01:00

This was a pug that I drew for my friend, which has proved very popular so here it is.

It's probably a good idea, if I can call it such, to follow me on flickr, since I actually update that pretty frequently, but not so much this.

Other things what I have been doing

2011-09-07T20:09:00.003+01:00

So I'm doing a series of large scale thingies using gouache and cutting-bits-out-so-you-can-see-the-flourescent-stuff-I-put-underneath. It is tentatively titled 'All is ash and sorrow: scenes from my email inbox' and is to do with fire. Not that you can tell.

You will note that my skills when it comes to photographing my work have not improved. Nor, if I were honest, have I tried any harder.

somme liked it hot

2011-09-07T20:02:00.003+01:00

I did/have a spoken word act, 'Somme Like It Hot (or how I learnt to pack up my troubles and love the war)', that I performed in Preston this Summer as part of their Tringe festival. It meant that drawing was on the backburner for a bit. This in no way justifies not updating for three months, but what can I say? I like the drawing stuff, I like the uploading stuff a lot less. The spoken word piece had an illustrated slideshow, a few of which are shown here. Without context they mean nothing, but take my word for it when I say that, with commentary, this shit is HILARIOUS.

Others can be seen HERE!

Animals!

2011-06-10T15:03:00.002+01:00

Remember when I used to draw nothing but animals? I miss those days. Anyway, here are some new ones:

massive spurting of newness

2011-02-10T14:27:00.004Z

I have been experimenting with cutouts, which is painfully twee, but at least partly in keeping with trying to stop spending every waking moment thinking about boring old watercolours, yeah?

same old, same old.

2011-02-10T14:24:00.001Z

2011-01-08T13:59:00.001Z

Triptych what I have done in the past couple of days, apologies for minor bit of potty-mouth.

funeral

2011-01-03T11:38:00.000Z

Poster for a club night in London.

Muralling

2010-12-17T09:47:00.003Z

Hello. I haven't posted for ages, as a) I've been having a massive existential crisis regarding the act of doing art, but, to a larger extent, because I have been doing this:

Christmas (baby please buy cards)

2010-11-22T17:31:00.003Z

Christmas cards are done! A little later than last year but still in good time, and, crucially, just as twee. These are two of five, and you, you lucky devil, can buy all five (or the original artwork, as, goddamn my house is getting a little cramped) from
my folksy. Hurrah.

Riding

2010-11-18T13:45:00.004Z

Here is a terrifying tryptich. Hurrah.

Onward!

2010-11-08T20:53:00.004Z

I made some collage posters based around existing Job centre literature and soviet posters. These have been collected into a full colour zine, '56 Miles of Hard Road', which you can aquire by paypalling 50 english pence to everyonestoostupid@hotmail.com
Here's a taster anyway.

Hooty Owloween

2010-10-31T13:54:00.001Z

Also, here is an ice cream.

2010-10-12T19:50:00.001+01:00

I got a flickr, as I'm told that's what people do. So please befriend me on it, or whatnot:
Clickr

Big draw!

2010-10-12T19:43:00.006+01:00

I did an event for the Big Draw. (www.campaignfordrawing.org.uk) Here's some photos of the drawing games and junk robot we made - both in progress, being worn by one of the lovely kids, and the finished full suit, being worn by my partner, Matt.

Done!

2010-10-05T11:09:00.004+01:00

The Magnificent Circus of Moderate Wonder is now available! (Featuring the sneaky peek posters previously posted here, plus lots more) You can get it from my Folksy shop, from the link below, or, as soon as I get to shipping them, from Good Grief in Manchester or OK Comics in Leeds. Or drop me an email and I'll sort you out personally.

Folksy

Muralling

2010-10-03T13:01:00.003+01:00

I have done a mural in the toilets at Crewe Alexandra football ground. Mutant animals abound!

Done!

2010-09-24T14:35:00.002+01:00

Well, that's the last of the circus posters done for my next comic, Magnificent Circus of Moderate Wonder. Now to get printing them up and sending them out to comic shops. Meanwhile, the next issue is underway but still in the early/confused stages.

newest

2010-09-08T18:48:00.002+01:00

I've been doing drawings for other people all week. It feels pretty good, if I'd done the skeleton for me, I'd have put all kind of crap around it. And the cake would have turned out way less girly. So, I'm glad I managed to hold myself back.

Things to come

2010-09-01T14:07:00.005+01:00

I'm working on a new comic-thingy. This one concerns vintage circus posters and a celebration of mediocrity. Here are probably the only images I'm going to upload as you'll just have to buy a copy when it's done.

Now my designs could be yours!

2010-08-17T20:43:00.002+01:00

(They always could be yours. But now! In jewellery form!)

Go to Catastrofeef and check out the goods. high quality polymer clay jewellery, and the jilted women are available there too. Enjoy! By which I mean: buy stuff!

2010-08-09T16:17:00.004+01:00

I am exhibiting in Crewe throughout August. I have almost certainly mentioned this. So far, it's going good. Here's some sneak previews from when I was putting it up.

constructive summer.

2010-08-05T15:56:00.002+01:00

I made magnets. That's not exactly building something...but...

Dinosaur

2010-07-19T18:59:00.001+01:00

Dinosaur.

Stuff!

2010-07-01T22:54:00.003+01:00

"Motivational Posters For The Terminally Pessimistic", an exhibition of my drawings and stuff* - some of which hasn't been on here! Loads of it actually because of that time where I got really lazy with blogging but was still drawing! - at the Cubbyhole, Crewe, throughout August. Get in touch for more details of its' whereabouts and stuff, as I maybe went a little overboard with the fonts on the poster. Hurrah!

*I'm not sure either - a couple of paintings maybe?

I've also got some new owls, as previewed here. I'm making them into cards. Shameless promotion of which to follow. Hurrah!

Lost... and found

2010-06-22T15:43:00.004+01:00

Paint on board. Painting again? Must be unemployed.

I was not always lost. I was briefly found.

then things got a bit pessimistic

2010-06-07T15:22:00.006+01:00

So, seemingly I'm expected to turn twenty five soon or something. I'm not sure how this has happened, but I don't approve. Still, if nothing else, I can document this horrific event through those drawing things:

Unrelated Nina Simone lyric:

back back back back back!

2010-06-07T15:16:00.004+01:00

Having finally settled in a house with suitable equipment to scan pictures in, in theory I should update more. Should.
Some things I have been up to recently:

Still no post!

2010-05-16T17:50:00.000+01:00

But here's a link to something what I did.
http://drawgasmic.com/artistpage.php?a=1464

Finally, another jilted woman

2010-04-05T20:16:00.001+01:00

Am pretty much good to go with The Handsome Jilted Woman's Revenge Society zine, details will follow shortly.

Other things and bits

2010-04-05T20:13:00.000+01:00

A dodo

A broken skateboard for a man I once met who had a broken skateboard and changed everything.

pages of my diary

2010-04-05T20:10:00.001+01:00

The Handsome Jilted Woman's Revenge Society

2010-03-01T18:57:00.003Z

I'm doing a series of cameo-style portraits of handsome women and the reasons they were jilted. I won't be posting a lot of them as I intend to put them out as a zine. This may go some way to explaining why I never update as I've been working on them for the past few weeks.

Here, incidentally, is another goat. Hurrah.

I'm not dead! Celebrations all round!

2010-03-01T18:32:00.004Z

I have been a long while without update. The excuses I made in a previous post still apply. Here are some consolatory owl babies

These are kind of old.

goats

2010-02-01T20:35:00.004Z

I haven't updated in a while. I'm moving house and have a new job, which hasn't left much time for art. Oh, plus I left my lightbox in another city. PLUS! This scanner is not so good. No more excuses, have some goats instead.

resolution #4739

2010-01-11T10:56:00.002Z

New year's resolution of sorts.

...

2010-01-04T21:59:00.002Z

Excuse the profanity. And the enormous cliche.

other recent stuff!

2009-12-29T18:38:00.003Z

My camera really enjoys pixellating black lines; plus the lack of natural light in a dimly lit end terrace in the winter doesn't make for great photos. But anyway.

This is the next in the series of owls i did/am doing, dedicated to people I know and (in most cases) love.

recent things

2009-12-29T18:10:00.003Z

The shading on the face hasn't scanned too well, but you'll mostly have to take my word for that.

hoot!

2009-12-05T00:40:00.004Z

I won't be updating much in the next few weeks. The only drawing I can fit in around work will be presents for people so i can't let their nosy faces see it. Anyway I'm pretty sure my sister doesn't read this, so here is an owl I drew for her. Glamorous.

eyes

2009-11-29T19:10:00.000Z

vengence

2009-11-16T20:12:00.000Z

Octo-owl-skull. Or something.

misquoted

2009-11-11T17:48:00.000Z

onwards

2009-11-05T21:17:00.003Z

It took two of us and this was still the best picture we could get.

water

2009-11-03T23:23:00.004Z

This goes with the previous two posts.

Sounds odd, but this sort of doesn't look like I did it. But i saw me do it so I'm pretty sure i did. Anyway, it's a preta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preta).

'yes' is my favourite answer

2009-11-02T16:42:00.001Z

I think most of everything I've done recently has been notes to myself - resolutions, reminders. This is no different.

Today

2009-11-01T17:27:00.001Z

talismen, a prayer for flight and a wish for better, now.

Bats!

2009-10-28T21:50:00.002Z

For halloween, I drew a three-headed totem bat type thing. You might just have to take my word for it though.

Impossibird

2009-10-27T18:46:00.000Z

boxing

2009-10-26T15:44:00.001Z

Some people think Raccoon boxing is barbaric, but all Pablo knows is that he has to put food on the table.

Note to my twenty five year old self.

2009-10-21T22:55:00.003+01:00

The combination of camera flash, gold paint, it being night time and my general cack-handedness means I can't get a decent photo of this. So two bad photos should make up for that.

It's a pre-emptive new years resolution. gouache, acrylic, ink and marker on board.

Upward over the mountain

2009-10-15T21:56:00.001+01:00

Bird for my mother

girl's best friend

2009-10-15T15:38:00.004+01:00

Tortoises are nature's best idea ever. They're the best animals of all. This one is a leopard tortoise.

This is a guinea pig. They are not one of nature's better ideas, but it was a present for a friend who likes them more than she likes people. Each to their own.

Hidden in the Lion's Mane

2009-10-10T00:27:00.003+01:00

The words belong to Sam Beam, the rest belongs to my lack of a social life.

Tie me to the mast of this ship

2009-10-09T00:36:00.000+01:00

terrible visual pun.

2009-10-07T01:02:00.004+01:00

I've been doing some automatic drawing and turning it into paintings (I have a lot of time on my hands) - it sems to be serving as a sort of diary I guess. The previous tooth painting was one of these, this is a detail from another. Collaged onto shoes. I have no idea why. Normal service of animals in hats will resume shortly.

fever dream

2009-10-05T18:39:00.002+01:00

gouache, acrylic, marker pen on board. Stupid amounts of camera glare courtesy of my lovely housemate and his camera.

i like birds

2009-09-29T22:44:00.003+01:00

toucan and parrot painting, gouache, acrylic and ink on board. Not a great photo but when did I say I was a photographer?

Happy birthday cow!

2009-09-28T23:51:00.000+01:00

Book worm owl

2009-09-24T13:30:00.003+01:00

It's a sort of a...well, it's a...it's an owl who is a bookworm who is a snake, obviously.

Place orders now for Christmas cards! All animals in hats all the time - from dogs and cats to turkeys and robins! 10 original designs on high quality card with envelopes. Hand folded by me and anyone else I can enlist to do my dirty work! Sneak peaks of designs to come, because Christmas can never come too early, right?

GHOST!

2009-09-21T00:32:00.000+01:00

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

That is all.

Painting Post!

2009-09-17T11:40:00.005+01:00

And now for something sort of a little bit maybe different! The first in what is sure to be an exciting and infrequent series of Paintings Small Enough To Scan!
It's called 'Requiem to the Common Lightbulb' (gouache and acrylic on board, 10 by 12 inches or so, at a guess, ever the perfectionist me) and marks the death of the humble, non-energy saving bulbs. Remember them this way.

More ladies.

2009-09-17T11:31:00.006+01:00

Now, the concept here was meant to be a witch who had won a beauty contest. I couldn't pinpoint exactly when it became an unflattering portrait of Sarah Jessica Parker.
(not the best scan I'm afraid, but you get the gist).

There's no celebrities to be found below, just a sneering fortune teller.

Flamincock!

2009-09-16T11:18:00.003+01:00

Because 'Pealingo' doesn't have quite the same ring. Half peacock, half flamingo.

2009-09-09T00:14:00.001+01:00

I lied about 'new stuff'. Stupid not having a scanner. But then, everything is new if I haven't posted it. So, in that spirit, a rather old drawing. In memory of my cursed wisdom tooth. May God rest it's soul.

Detective Walrus

2009-09-07T11:50:00.003+01:00

I thought I'd already posted this! Here, before brand new drawings later this week, have my favourite drawing (possibly) ever (until something else amuses me as much).

Brain Queen!

2009-09-03T14:21:00.001+01:00

HOOT!

2009-08-27T12:05:00.000+01:00

Crabowl!
And an owl flying right at you!

Giraffe in a teapot!

2009-08-24T13:18:00.002+01:00

But what is it doing in there?

girls, girls, girls.

2009-08-21T12:31:00.001+01:00

Sad dog

2009-08-19T18:01:00.002+01:00

Hideous dog getting rained on. I think this says it all.

Cat in a wig

2009-08-19T17:59:00.001+01:00

Cat in a wig: it's a cat in a wig.

First post!!!!!!!!!!

2009-08-19T15:12:00.006+01:00

Hello,

I am Feef, this blog is a showcase for my drawings, sketches, cartoons and paintings (sort of. It's mostly going to be drawings until I figure out how to get a decent photo of a painting).

(above, Flopsy wants to reach out and grab you; pencil, ink, watercolours. Below, Pig in a portrait; same materials. Actually, almost everything that will ever appear here will be in those materials so I won't mention it again).

Feef Illustration

fightless bird/sea otter

Finally

Other things what I have been doing

somme liked it hot

Animals!

More posters!

massive spurting of newness

same old, same old.

funeral

Muralling

Christmas (baby please buy cards)

Riding

Onward!

Hooty Owloween

Also, here is an ice cream.

Big draw!

Done!

Muralling

Done!

newest

Things to come

Now my designs could be yours!

constructive summer.

Dinosaur

Stuff!

Lost... and found

then things got a bit pessimistic

back back back back back!

Still no post!

Finally, another jilted woman

Other things and bits

pages of my diary

The Handsome Jilted Woman's Revenge Society

I'm not dead! Celebrations all round!

goats

resolution #4739

...

other recent stuff!

recent things

hoot!

eyes

vengence

misquoted

onwards

water

'yes' is my favourite answer

Today

Bats!

Impossibird

boxing

Note to my twenty five year old self.

Upward over the mountain

girl's best friend

Hidden in the Lion's Mane

Tie me to the mast of this ship

terrible visual pun.

fever dream

i like birds

Happy birthday cow!

Book worm owl

GHOST!

Painting Post!

More ladies.

Flamincock!

Detective Walrus

Brain Queen!

HOOT!

Giraffe in a teapot!

girls, girls, girls.

Sad dog

Cat in a wig

First post!!!!!!!!!!