Holly Swain Illustration

A Relaxing Raccoon.

hollyswainillustration — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:20:17 +0000

I’ve been drawing Raccoons lately and here’s one that was a tester..

Thought it needed a bit more warmth, so here was the next one. A relaxing Raccoon.

I think he’ll be cropping up again.

Quite pleased with my antimacassar (I have just been informed that it was so called because gentlemen used to use Macassar oil as an unguent in their hair- so an antimacassar kept the oil off the furniture.)

There, I’ve taught you something now.

Mice for a Monday!

hollyswainillustration — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:03:04 +0000

Here’s a couple of mice to hopefully brighten your Monday morning..

Happy Red Nose Day!

hollyswainillustration — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:05:31 +0000

Happy Red Nose Day!

My kids Primary School is holding a Bake Off to raise money for Comic Relief. Here’s the certificates I illustrated for the winners..

and for the Supremo Baker..

Go Benfield!

‘Love Birds’

hollyswainillustration — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:30:47 +0000

‘Love Birds’ (and I do love birds!) is a new print for my Folksy shop. I was thinking of a card design about Love- Valentines Day was approaching and I’ve been trying to put together some card designs, and this drawing just grew and grew..

..until it was just about print size. (The pink doesn’t show up that well in the picture, it’s actually a bit brighter-but not neon or anything!) Being relatively new to screenprinting, whilst cleaning the screen I inadvertently printed the black onto some newspaper. I quite liked it, so I cut it out.

Not sure where it’s going, but it’s giving me ideas.

Birthday bears.

hollyswainillustration — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:06:16 +0000

Ah blog, I’ve been neglecting you..I’m sorry. So here’s the first of the catch ups.

Belated Birthday Bears..

..and cake!

Some new characters.

hollyswainillustration — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:35:43 +0000

I’ve been trying out some black and white illustration’s and thought it about time I returned to drawing people again. What do you think of them?

Happy (Belated) New Year.

hollyswainillustration — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:36:45 +0000

Happy New Year to you all.

After having dispatched children back to school and cleaned my studio, I’m trying some black and white pics.

So first up, here’s one for all of you who have taken up some kind of New Year exercise routine.

Keep going! It’s only day 10! You can do it!

Christmas Birds card.

hollyswainillustration — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:50:58 +0000

These have all flocked together for a carol sing..

Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas and much wearing of Christmas jumpers!

And the winner is..

hollyswainillustration — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:01:49 +0000

Drumroll, drumroll, picked out of a hat, by my sick child, the winner is …Meg Pickard!!

(And I did only include you once Meg!)

Thanks to everyone for the lovely and very encouraging comments, they meant a lot.

Keep an eye out for future give aways, and sorry if you didn’t win this time!

New Shop and Print give away!

hollyswainillustration — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:25:24 +0000

Woo Hoo! I have a shop! You can find it here on folksy.

Earlier in November I did a two day screen printing course with lovely Emma from ‘Parliament of Feathers’ who taught me so much. So I now have some prints in a shop and hopefully more to follow. I loved it! Here’s the print, it’s called ‘Happy little Owl’, it’s on A4 card, is a four colour screen-print (ooh achy arms) and has a watercolour heart.

To celebrate the opening of my shop, and my birthday and all things Christmassy, I am giving away a print. Leave me a comment by Friday 14th December , 1pm and I will put the names in a hat and pull out a lucky winner!

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