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all lunch breaks should be paid im serious. im not even enjoying this im literally just making sure i dont pass out or something. this is part of The Job as far as im concerned
Since I've recently opened commissions (http://sarahfogg.tumblr.com/post/74638485417) here's one I did this January as a christening present. I've done these baby portraits that incorporate birth information several times before, but I think this is my favourite so far.
I was given no guidelines aside from 'they like purple and butterflies', so I was a little relieved when I heard it had gone down well with the parents!
Finally, things that aren't fairies!
I was hired to make some designs for my old primary school (Barnabas Oley), that could be used either as certificates or as bookplates for excellence or progress in handwriting. I hand-wrote the text using the letter forms the children learn.
Recently my co-worker paid me to make her some custom books. She wanted two in the same dimensions as a lined notebook she already had, but one which had plain paper so she could write in it horizontally, and one which opened at the short edge to form a very long, thin double page spread. That one also needed heavy paper, so she could paint in it if she wanted. It was a lot of fun making something different to my usual A6 notebooks, but cutting the pages to a custom size left me with a lot of off-cuts. So, naturally, I made those into books too. I got four mini notebooks out of them, in two different sizes. (I photographed them with an A6 book for comparison.) I'll have the minis to sell at Manchester MCM later this month.
One of my friends recently got married and asked me to make her a guestbook for the reception! I actually remembered to take process photos since I hadn’t tried anything like the little window in the cover fabric before, so here’s some pictures of the book in various stages. (None of the page block though, I forgot.) Since the book was square I had a lot of offcuts from the paper. I hate throwing away paper so I made myself two dinky little sketchbooks out of it!
A commission from last year, with one from two years ago for the same person. You can see the baby from the 2014 picture as a toddler in the more recent one.
I don’t think I ever advertise these baby portraits anywhere, but people somehow find out about them. I think it’s because people commission them as Christening presents, so then other people see them at the ceremony and decide they want one too?