The Story of the Discovery Walk Plaque Designs: The Title Plaque Working on design proposals for the plaques led me to develop a series of stories depicted by both words and complementary illustrations. The idea was to take people on a short journey to experience the lives and achievements of those notable individuals being featured…
Category: Illustrations
Fun A Day
Fun A Day challenge: Create something fun every day in January… Just cos! Anything that you like… Just cos! Then we will have us an exhibition of all our fun creations. I loved this Fun A Day challenge, the perfect antidote to January and a good excuse to do whatever I felt like that…
Porter’s Gin: The Story Behind The Bottle
I am a firm believer that we taste with our eyes before a drink even passes our lips. My eyes naturally beeline straight for eye catching illustrations, interesting shapes and the unusual. I know that I am not alone in this sub-conscious and very visual, decision making process when it come to drinks bottles. With…
Snowboarding in the Art Bar
What do you do with your snowboard when it’s no longer fit for the mountain? Turn it into a piece of 3D functional art of course! This is the new door in the Art Bar, Dundee. The snowboard has been retired from its mountain adventures but is still very much in use as the 3D…
❤️ WhimSicAL LusH 2016 Calendar ❤️
Woo hoo! The WhimSicAL LusH 2016 calendars are here! Hooray! Available to purchase from the WhimSicAL LusH Etsy shop now! Check out link below for all details and some new illustrations that haven’t been released before as well as including some firm favourites from over the last few years. Buy the WhimSicAL LusH 2016…
WhimSicAL LusH Functional Art Piece to be auctioned off for The Archie Foundation, Tayside
This is a lovely item of functional art from Whimsical Lush representing discovery, travel, adventure and Dundee’s Discovery Ship. This art piece is an upcycled wooden suitcase used on a voyage from Canada to Scotland in 1949, featuring several original illustrations, including the original compass from the ‘Ghost Ship’ illustration and freehand details. Local artist…
‘In The Trees’ is off to Pitlochry…
This illustration is currently part of an exhibition in The River Room at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, which is being curated by Perthshire Open Studios. We’re looking forward to opening the doors of the Tigh-Fhada studio again in September for our third year of Open Studios. (Tigh-Fhada: Number 138: Red Route) Some work in progress…
Zoom Zoom… We’re Off To The Moon!
A small inky adventure into space…
Art On The Move!
I was recently asked by the lovely people at the Trinity Art Supplies shop in Dundee to come up with a Dundee/ WhimSicAL LusH inspired illustration for their new van. This is what I came up with…. Can you tell I enjoyed this one! There are quirky rabbits and the Dundee Penguins, the shop has been…
Win a set of limited edition WhimSicAL LusH Illustrated Mugs!
I would love to give one of you guys a set of my bone china illustrated mugs. All you need to do is sign up to this blog, share this pic and tell me why you would like to win below! The winner will be announced next Sunday night. Good luck x
The ‘Bramble Cottages’ Illustration Project
Welcome to the Bramble Cottages illustration project, that I fondly named #TheBigHousesProject ❤ I can show you pictures of this fantastic commission now as all the young uns who were involved with helping me have seen everything now… and more importantly given it the thumbs up too! ‘Bramble Cottages’ are the two brand new homes…
Bring Out The Imp!
This new Imperial Stout by the fantastic, Livingstone based company, Alechemy Brewing has just been launched featuring a specially commissioned drawing by me! This label was so much fun to draw with the design brief being “make it twisted, gnarly, impish and a little bit terrifying…. Just like the beer”. My mind immediately harked back…
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