Artist Attraction #6 | Andrea Lauren

Images from Andrea's website, linked below. 

Bringing back my old series Artist Attraction; where I introduce you to new artists that I've recently come across, starting with Andrea Lauren. 

I came across Andrea via Pinterest and instantly fell in love with her work. After studying letterpress at university last year I have a new found love for all things print. This British lady specialises in linocuts, silkscreens, and block prints like those above, the latter being my favourite. I slightly wish that I came across her before I finished my assignment as I'd have loved to include some of her influences in my work. The thing I love about this kind of art is how simple it is but how much thought and consideration goes into it. The problem with simple is it has to be perfect and Andrea just pulls it off! 

You can find all her work on her website or instagram! I totally recommend looking through her site though some of her designs have even made it to clothing and she has instructions on how to do prints like hers. It makes me want to do more printing but I have no idea where the new print room is now the unis been rearranged. Unfortunately... 

Gold is a girls best friend?

Hiya so thanks for putting up with the fact I've hardly been posting the last two weeks it's been uni hell! But today I finished uni for the year and no longer have uni until late February next year, crazy..two years down, two to go! For my Letterpress class I had to create a poster that would work as a booklet cover and the inside pages for a given element. I got given gold and however much I really hate gold I really enjoyed making this set even though I had either gold powder or gold glitter stuck to me for the past 12 weeks. It involved making a lot of small vinyl layered mines to emboss over and over again as after about 3 times through the printing press they would lose their depth and almost become flat. So I'm just pretty happy it got finished and I'm pretty pleased with the A I got for the poster for the first part of the semester and I'm hoping for something similar this part for the inside pages. Fingers crossed! 

Artist Attraction #2 | Lizzie Mackay

Another artist discovered on Pintrest: Lizzie Mackay... aren't her illustrations beautiful! There's just something about any nicely drawn animals that just make me want to look at every single other piece the artist has produced and these are no different. I had to google her and spend a good hour or so looking through all her pieces on her website here, I really recommend a look as I'll definitely be using some of her work as inspiration for my own x