Manchester and Salford Illustrated shop

Prints (A3 size) celebrating everyday Manchester and Salford are now available to buy online (http://manchesterandsalfordillustrated.mysupadupa.com/collections/masi-2013-collection)to raise money for Wood Street Mission. My flying pig image is one of the prints for sale, shopping over a well-known street in south Manchester (http://annavioletillustration.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/if-pigs-could-fly-trip-to-shops-poster.html)

London Stories

The London Stories - serco prize for illustration 2014 exhibition is now open at London Transport Museum.
http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions#serco
Here is the winning poster entry by Gill Bradley, Monkey Band at Large in Notting Hill 1927 - I saw this colourful and intriguing poster was up in the London underground last week. 

More information at http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2014/february/serco-prize-for-illustration
Here's Bradley's explanation for the piece: "In 1927 an escaped monkey jazz band embarked on days of high-jinks and mayhem at Latimer Road Metropolitan station. Jumping aboard trains one reached as far as Rugby before capture."

This was my entry to the competition based around Dick Whittington's cat.

Sketchcrawl in Manchester March 2014

Sketchcrawl in Manchester on 29th March 2014, organised by SCBWI (Society Book Writers and Illustrators). Hosted by children's book author/illustrator Lynne Chapman. Open to interested illustrators and writers, unpublished and published.

If pigs could fly... a trip to the shops poster

Exhibition tonight celebrating Everyday Manchester and Salford, to raise money for Wood Street Mission. Prints and cards for sale, including my shopping pig print (A3). Will also be able to buy prints online from mid Jan. See http://www.manchesterandsalfordillustrated.co.uk/
Also http://manchesterandsalfordillustrated.mysupadupa.com/collections/masi-2013-collection

A trip to the shops

'And pigs can fly' is a sarcastic expression I remember from childhood, meaning something is impossible. But what if you popped out to the shops one day to pick up a paper or a sandwich and a pig was flying above you with a shopping trolley? 

Can you recognise the street in Manchester, too?

Poster

Can you read the words on this poster? Answer is upside down below.

London Transport Competition

Image to promote London's new cycle superhighways. With a nod to Saul Steinberg!