Miriam Wilson Art

Inspiration 1

Work of amazing illustrator Katie Scott http://katie-scott.com/ :

Katie Scott seems to have worked on a vast array of projects, from educational books to surreal art to wallpaper design. Her work is very refined and detailed, yet imaginative and there is always a sense of her own style, which is why it translates so well to just a broad range of projects.

More spooky skeletons

Clare portrait

Portrait from a photograph - going to try and get some portraits drawn from real life too

Sketch of Izzy

Took some interesting photos in the process... Thanks for modelling Izzy!

Paper Street Soap Company

Part of design for Deebs's t-shirt (will update with photos of t-shirt soon), for which I took the logo for the Paper Street Soap Company (in film "Fight Club") and distorted it a bit using grids:

First version:

Painting - Stromness Harbour from the Pier Arts Centre

Finally finished this painting for Hanna and Iain's housewarming, after layers of repainting. Hoping the primer has held up. Now to get to the framers!

Human skulls

Deebs

Drawing project 2

Thanks to Lucy and Emma for modelling!

Squid sketches

Small sketches in preparation for larger mixed media piece.

LC Illustrations

This year I was involved in helping to illustrate the brilliant Library Cat: The Observations of a Thinking cat by Alex Howard. http://blackandwhitepublishing.com/shop/library-cat.html

This has led to potential involvement in other projects which I am very excited about. I thought I'd put up a few illustrative drafts and ideas from the past year, none of these sketches are actually in the book (to see the finished ones feel free to grab yourself a copy!)

Drawing project

I've been feeling out of practice lately so I decided to draw something every day, or work on my piece for my sister and her family. The first portrait I did was utter poop, but I didn't spend long on it and the first few are always going to be frustrating. Anyway, here are a few of the drawings I did, starting with the earliest at the top. I think this has helped me to regain some confidence, particularly in experimenting with materials which I used to love doing.