Huge CONGRATULATIONS to everyone at ArthurCox for winning an RTS Award for ‘Nina Needs To Go’! It won for Best Animation and I was the Animation Director on the series - woohoo!
“Covered in bees!” A selection of characters from some of my favourite early Eddie Izard sketches.
Brigitte, Bruno & Ben
A short animation I made with Aardman Animation illustrating how microfinance at Deki works. The film was written by Matthew Walker and the sound / music was composed by Laura Coates.
Working on this project, I was so affected by the concept of Deki, that I have joined up with the lenders on the Deki website and hope to help make a difference too!
#peanutbutter #peanut #man #illustration
Sold!
Very happy to just hear that my My Little Monster illustrated print sold at the opening night of the Sydney ‘Monster’ exhibition. Yippee! www.drawingbook.com.au/lucy_izzard
My Little Monster
My new illustration for the Drawing Book exhibition held in Sydney on 04.06.13 & a behind the scenes video.
Lucy Izzard answers Bar Shorts Questions | Bar Shorts
Little interview with Bar Shorts.
‘My Other Half’ short film screening at Bar Shorts in Manchester
Another splendid Bar Shorts will be occurring in Manchester’s Band on the Wall bar April 30th and it will be premiering a live-action film I made with Laura Coates called My Other Half.
http://barshorts.com/hear-ye-hear-ye-bar-shorts-hits-manchester/
Web design
The delectable Laura Coates asked me to help her with her website, so we sat down together at the kitchen table with our little Archie puppy chewing our shoelaces, and picked a colour scheme. She chose the page titles and I got designing! Have a look at the link to see it in situe and hear her magical musical melodies.
‘Bob’ is being made live by Darren Walsh & Scary Cat at the Arnolfini now! Go witness a genius at work! Produced by @12foot6 & with my voice #animation #bristol #encounters #arnolfini (Taken with Instagram)
Which pizza are you?
I’m Tonnata. Illustration for my friends Italian restaurant in Copenhagen ‘Mother’ - if you’re in the area check it out, beautiful beautiful food!
‘Clusterfuck’
Inspired by a Colourful Language project with The Drawing Book Studio
Colourful Language
Naughty words on T-shirts! Come and check out our video. If we raise enough money, we can have an exhibition and you can have an awesome T-shirt!
(Source: pozible.com)
My new Etsy shop is ALIVE!
‘Lenard says PEACE’ tees now for sale!
Mens, ladies and unisex vests!
(Source: etsy.com)
Beauty in the smallest of things … tea
Last night, I read a paragraph in my book ‘The Elegance of the Hedgehog’ which exemplifies my exact feelings towards the seemingly small and yet magnificently powerful ritual of 'tea drinking’. Muriel Barbery puts it perfectly.
“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?
The tea ritual: such a precise repetition of the same gestures and the same tastes; accession to simple, authentic and refined sensations, a licence granted to all, at little cost, to become aristocrats of taste, because tea is the beverage of the wealthy and of the poor; the ritual, therefore, has the extraordinary virtue of introducing into the absurdity or our lives an aperture of serene harmony. Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea. Silence descends, one hears the wind outside, the autumn leaves rustle and take flight, the cat sleeps in a warm pool of light. And with each swallow, time is sublimed.”
I think I’ll put the kettle on.
(Source: BBC)