Chorlton Map 2019-21

Thrilled to have illustrated the new version of Chorlton map for Chorlton Traders, which came out last year.

Street Portrait commission

Delighted to complete this recent Street Portrait commission.  Here are my stages form rough sketch to final image. Includes Chorlton Health Centre Oswald Primary School and part of the former Gaumont.

Detailed sketch

Rough sketch

Detail of Health Centre

Final print

St Peters Square, Manchester

Here's my latest image of St Peter's Square, available as a limited edition print, which I had for sale at Green Walk Open House exhibition. It features Manchester Central Library, Manchester Town Hall (and extension), The Midland Hotel, the new Emmeline Pankhurst statue, Manchester Cenotaph war memorial, St Peters Square One, St Peters Square Two and the metrolink station.
Now on Folksy shop https://folksy.com/items/7286188-St-Peters-Square-Manchester

Bolton Art Gallery & Museum Shop

Thrilled to illustrate a new souvenir range of merchandise for Bolton Art Gallery & Museum's recently re-opened shop. Includes mugs, pin badges, fridge magnets and tea-towels. Landmarks featured are Bolton Town Hall, Hall i h'Wood, Smithills Hall, Bolton Parish Church, Ye Olde Man & Scythe, Art Gallery & Museum and Market Place.

Street portrait commission

Street portrait illustration commission I did for Marmion Drive last spring. Including cats, dogs, birds, hedgehogs and squirrels. The image can be framed in  portrait or landscape view.

Bolton mug samples

We have lots of samples arriving for @ @BoltonLMS new shop. Promoting and celebrating Bolton. Great designs by @annadviolet pic.twitter.com/nZl4N1aRGx

— Sam Elliott (@SamElliott1) June 21, 2018

Discover Author Arts Award log book

As a big lover of books, I am thrilled to see Bolton library's Arts Awards log books now in print, along with my illustrations. This is an author-related Arts Award aimed at 7-11 year olds, where children find out about books and an author or illustrator, put their findings into a log book and share with others.

The illustrations consist of the front cover (with Bolton museum's dramatic entrance) and interior borders on the theme of 'discover' and 'share'. They can be coloured-in, added to and pasted over, depending on how the child wants to personalise their log book.

What a super project to be involved with!

Illustrated exhibition opens at Bolton Museum

I am delighted to have been involved in an exciting and unusual illustration commission for Bolton Museum, including Leopold the mascot mouse. 

I provided the black and white ink line drawings for the museum’s interactive family exhibition, ‘Animals and Us’. These images were no bigger than A4-size, scanned in at high resolution and then made into vector files. 

I am impressed how Bolton Museum has had these illustrations printed onto foamboard at varying sizes, to link the exhibition together in a very graphic and fresh way. The illustrations provide the actual furniture and the setting for the displays, so the pillars, the cupboards, the fireplace and the stable door are now life-sized. 

Leopold the  mouse is child-sized on the stairway and mouse-sized elsewhere, and guides young visitors around. 

The exhibition opened to the public yesterday and will last about 18 months.

http://www.bolton.gov.uk/website/news/pages/Miniaturemascotstarofnewexhibition.aspx

Illustrations for Bolton Museum

Thrilled to have drawn the black and white illustrations for Bolton Museum’s Animals & Us exhibition, including Leopold the mouse. Exhibition opens 3rd December.

Promoting the exhibition are five fun animal displays with a story-theme, set up in the foyer and library (see below). Stuffed animals from Museum's Victorian collection.

Leopold the Mouse (before colour)

Leopold the Mouse

The Fantastic Mr Fox

The Fantastic Mr Fox

The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs

Little Red Riding Hood

The Owl and the Pussycat

Manchester Pride image, from rough sketch to final

I just wanted to share how my image evolved, from sketch idea through to final print.

3 limited edition prints are left (contact annaviolet@btinternet.com)
Postcards for sale at The Make It Shop, Chorlton.

first rough sketch idea

in detail, adding balloons, adjusting large flag and trucks

photo of final image, printed onto archival paper,
hand-painted with overlapping gouache,
colour order changed so red at top of rainbow flags

In Lord Mayor's Parlour

Manchester Pride

Thrilled to see my image of Manchester Pride Parade up in the Lord Mayor's Parlour, Manchester Town Hall. The illustration is based on the route the parade took in 2014, passing by Albert Square and Manchester Town Hall.

Ltd edition prints (out of just 5), hand-painted in rainbow colours, available from me.
Also online through Folksy

photo of handpainted ltd ed print

framed print hanging in Lord Mayor's Parlour