Johanna Basford, Inked

Website: http://www.johannabasford.com/
Blog: http://www.johannabasford.com/blog
Tumblr: http://www.mydesktoday.com/

Basford is an artist, an illustrator, a designer and importantly works with ink and pens to produce her beautifully decorative and maximalist works. She has an interesting website, with photographs of her previous and present works and has a range of stationary and fun things that feature her beautiful drawings all over them, crawling with an abundance of life, and all inked perfectly.
I bought a colouring book as a birthday present for my cousin a while ago

Its a beautifully printed book on this nice thick paper stock that has a kind of a cotton rag or watercolour paper feel to it. A lot of art galleries I have been to stock some of her stuff so I would recommend checking them out, and also explore her website, it's a beautiful little place on the web.

She works, not only on paper but on 3D objects, has produced illustrations and drawings for various fashion retailers such as H&M, created works for publishing and so on.


Also she loves Staedtler ink pens, as commented on in her blog post: http://www.johannabasford.com/blog-article/247
Staedtler is an important brand in stationary and for designers, artists and makers and well anyone! They produce top notch quality stuff, pens that I have never experienced leaking or breaking unless I have been unduly horrible to them.

Print Method 01

Experimenting with paint and ink used in a print type method.

A plastic surface is used, where watered down paint and ink are applied in areas and then a piece of canvas (any material can be used though) is pressed on over the top of the plastic surface. This is then peeled away to reveal print.

 

The black and yellow work quite well together, becoming a kind of mossy green in parts. Worth trying this out again.

Surface doodles

Some surface doodles that caught my eye in the art studios at uni. They use simple shapes, but these shapes have a bold imprint into my own mind, its very hard not to like them.

Simple flower shape, clumsy like build but adds that childish imperfection that I like.

I wish I took more photos of this, using circles and building in shapes inside each outline of the middle circle.

A dripping gaping circle, kind of like a wormhole. Rapid movement marks.