Lets get crafty. Innit!

Hellooooooooooooo all! So, I confess, Jot Tittle and Dot was kind of side-lined in the last year as I focused on my new illustration work and my personal blog (which you can see here!) but I wanted to ressurect this wee blog as a platform to gather together awesome artists, imaginative illustrations, groovy graphic designers, clever crafties, potty potters....you get the idea. I shan't go on in case you CAN'T STOP LAUGHING. 

This is us. Ressurecting. Innit

So if you are an arty type of any sort, get in touch. I will want some examples of your work (always put your copyright on to protect your images!) and then I will ask you some rather BATTY interview type questions. We don't want to put peeps to sleep with our 'Oh well I've been drawing since I was in the womb..' bull, we want funny, meaningful, bizzare and downright AWESOME. The weirder you are, the better.

Get ready.

Getting ready for Christmas

The Singer

The Fox

Trifold design

So I've been ticking away on pictures and designs over the last few weeks, and trying to keep myself from getting too chilly now winter is well and truly here!

I've begun taking commissions for Christmas, so if you'd like something special and unique for that special person, drop me a line at ruth@ruthjoyce.co.uk. Also have a look at the range of prints available on my online shop, free delivery for A3 prints!

I have also officially Christmas-ified my website now, have a look at www.ruthjoyce.co.uk.

New Artist Fair Feature - Mark Powell

Since graduating from Huddersfield University, in which he accidentally enrolled himself onto the fine art course (but haven't we all done that at least once), Mark has had shows across the UK and the US. His practice centers around his beautiful and detailed drawing, for which he will use a biro pen on paper or envelopes he finds, and the painting of whatever slips into his mind at any particular time. This can often seem abstract and unrelated, though this is never the case.

Mark will be displaying his fantastic art work at the New Artist Fair!

New Artist Fair Feature - Kim Alexander

Kim's drawings are fabulously detailed and often surreal; drawings filled with images within images within images.  She loves colours and patterns, and she takes inspiration from all sorts, from interesting textures to molecular biology. This she mixes with images from her own vivid imagination. At the moment she says that her drawings are reflecting her recent interest in beautiful wood grain and the Mayan weavings that she photographed obsessively while she was in Central America.

Kim's drawings are essentially a beautiful set of intricate diaries. If you look closely into the details that make up her hybrid characters and landscapes you can find stories of travels, thoughts, dreams, fantasies and memories. 

Kim says "My work as a 2D animator is symbiotic with my drawing and I love the character design of Sylvain Chomet and Brian Froud, and the surreal animations Blu creates of creatures-within- creatures . Gina Intveen's paintings that hold images-within-images have also provided a lot of inspiration over recent months, as have the detailed organic images of Ernst Haekel."

Kim will be exhibiting her fantastic works at the New Artist Fair!

First artist feature - Otto Vincze

All works are copyright 2011 Otto Vincze. All rights reserved.

Otto Vincze

Otto Vincze is a Hungarian artist from Slovakia, and he has been drawing all of his life. He went to study at Nyíregyháza in Hungary when he was 15, and while he was there he studied sculpture and anatomy. He also honed his ever developing drawing skills. These days he focuses on airbrushing, and uses charcoal and biro in much of his drawing work. His recent artwork studies dynamics, movement, the female form and trees. He says "My main theme at the moment is the female body in movement, which is turning to a kind of human tree." 

He has also done some lovely and quirky drawings looking at his impression of London buildings. 

Otto's work is fluid and unique, a beautiful combination of nature and man. 

See more of Otto's work (and say hello to him too!) by visiting http://vinczeotto.deviantart.com/