A piece of Bournemouth

I'm not sure if it is possible to re-capture the shapes, textures (and smell! :s) of this barnacle covered muscle but I have tried my damnedest! 

My illustration portfolio: obrotheridge.co.uk

Live Printmaking @ The Big Collab

Paper Jukebox took over a corner of the Sherbert Lounge for The Big Collab on May Day 2011, 
We exhibited our work as well as creating new work in front of crowds of punters!

Four and a half hours later, with a massive pile of stencils, this is my final piece. 

Good Morning, Bournemouth Cemetry.

I chose a landscape that I found eerily beautiful and went colour mad. I love printmaking.

Thank You

I made this card as a thank you to illustrator Matthew Richardson who 

has kindly donated a print of his work for our fund raising evening. 

Learning to Love Landscapes

Playing about with the visual style that I developed in December, I'm trying to learn to love landscapes. I don't like drawing hundreds of trees -I bloody hate it, so with this way of printmaking hopefully I can make it enjoyable! The top two are inspired by a visit to the Russel Coates Museum and Art Gallery, and below is a copy of Raoul Dufy's Racetrack at Deauville. And, yep, I have enjoyed doing these..

Dear Lino,

Well, the deadline for the Nautical Nonsense passed, rendering my work a Naughty Non-submission, but I shall persevere.

Summer BODY of work!

SO...

I have been having a fab summer here in Bournemouth, I have a job working on a temporary tattoo stall on the sea front, here are some henna and Jagua tattoos that I have done at work:




I also bought some chairs, took them apart, sanded and painted them, put them back together and gave them to mum for her birthday!
These particular chairs are similar to one that she inherited from her father (but lost to a dodgy lodger) so I wanted to replace it for her, unable to find the exact chair, I got tall stools to go under her new kitchen breakfast bar. Useful!

Cycling back from work, Bournemouth gardens were all aglow, with videos of Glasto' lighting up the deck chairs.

Red Dress

I made it out of a pair of charity shop cotton curtains

& I love it & I wear it every day & every night.

Yes that is whipped cream.

'Experimental Typography' workshop resulted in my poster for the Air Festival, using whipped cream, ribbon, icing sugar and photography. Some Photoshop and InDesign know-how came in handy too. Students from Illustration, Graphic Design and Visual Communication each made a poster for different tourist attractions in Bournemouth.