Pretty Perth Plumage

 Some of Perth's brightly coloured birds.

Banksias and Black Cockatoos

A pattern featuring endangered Carnaby's Black-Cockatoos, and Banksia prionotes. I'm happy to live across from a reserve which sometimes features the former, and always the latter. I'm very fond of the native wildlife.

Hello Possums!

A little experimentation with possum illustrations and logos.

Some Orchids to Brighten Up Your Day

Various orchids - an Oncidium, Laelia and Vanilla planifolia, the orchid responsible for producing lovely vanilla!

Prisms of Phantasm

Development work on a mural for Curtin Student Guild's Queer Department using fantastical creatures as a metaphor for human diversity. Each creature is white, representing white light through which a rainbow of colours emerge prismatically. The mural is being painted in acrylic paints, and is expected to be completed mid 2013.

In the Kitchen with Web-Design

Within my master's I'm creating several prototype websites to demonstrate how illustration can effectively fulfill the roles of visual imagery online, and one is a cupcake bakery website. There are approximately thirty businesses in Perth that sell cupcakes as a primary or secondary specialty so it's an opportunity to prove illustration can differentiate entities in saturated markets.

To create the web-site for this fake cupcake bakery of course I need the rights to product images. Rather than buying cupcakes and photographing them, I decided to bake and decorate my own so I've been having a lot of adventures in making fancy cupcakes, with edible glitter generously sprinkled throughout these experiments. Luckily those who would call me mad for going this far for a prototype have been soothed by my delicious research and development.

Last semester I made Orchid Diversity, a site about orchids for a unit about creating educational and interactive web-sites. It was also a good project for me as in creating an educational site I had to cater for users with various learning styles, so it was a good opportunity to use illustration as a teaching tool.