Illustrated Maps

Our illustrations have just been added to new sign boards at Newbury Racecourse.  The colours and definition looks pretty good.

Illustration for a garden design company

I've just completed this design for a Brighton garden designer which hopefully should soon be on the front of the website.

More Dragon illustrations

Two new versions of an old illustration

A new card design

This seems to have taken months to finish but finally my vintage aeroplane flying across the desert, with accompanying camels is finished.

10 Years - Then and Now

I have just started uploading the illustrations we've done onto our Pinterest site and it has just become apparent that The Pen & Ink has been trading for 10 years.  Has much changed?  Not much but I do faff about a lot less and don't worry what the client might think when I send a piece of work off to them to look at.  I don't think a lot has changed with the illustrations and you can see below our first two commissions compared to two we have done very recently.

I have only updated the illustrations we did in 2004 and 2005 and there are well over 150 so plenty more to go.

The Dragon School, Oxford

For the last few years I have illustrated all the boarding houses for The Dragon School in Oxford.  It has taken a while but we are finally there.  These are used mostly for correspondence cards but some have been enlarged and printed on screens.  They are then used as backdrops and decoration when the school attends recruitment fairs around the country and in places as far away as Hong Kong.

The Miners' Church, Buninyong

I've just had an email from an old client (old as in the year 2005).  She and her husband own a church which was converted into a bed and breakfast.  It's near a town called Buninyong, north west of Melbourne in Australia and it was built to service the spiritual needs of Cornish miners who came to work in the area during the goldrush of the 1850s.

I designed an illustration of the church which now sits proudly on the front page of their website. http://theminerschurch.com.au 

Not only that but a large reproduction of the illustration adorns their van.

Eight years later and they've even got bookmarks.  Is there no end to the flexibilty of a Pen & Ink illustration?  So the moral of this is:  when you are next in Victoria and you are looking for a place to put your feet up, the Miners' Church should be your first port of call.  Relax in wonderful luxury and admire our illustration wherever you look.