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Two blog posts in two days?! Whatever next! This is just a quick post as I wanted to share this little illustration I did a while ago. I haven't really had the opportunity to share it yet so seeing as it is my birthday today, I thought this was the perfect opportunity. I love how grumpy-looking the panda turned out to be and so it felt only right to have a grumpy little saying along with it!
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Hope you have a lovely Easter Sunday!
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What better time to get creative in the kitchen than at EASTER?! So yesterday, in an extraordinary effort to put off doing any work, I did some cupcake-baking. These had a chocolate sponge with both chocolate buttercream icing and plain buttercream icing on top.
I got the cupcake recipe from the All Recipes website which has lots of other great ideas and if like me, you are a bit of a beginner, it keeps the instructions delightfully simple. So I won't go into detail as to how I made the cupcakes as I definitely couldn't explain it better than they have! I will say that I did use Flora instead of using Stork, so I had to use a tad more icing sugar to get my buttercream stiff. I also made chocolate and plain icing, which I then added green food colouring to. I like a bit of a challenge and so I decorated my cupcakes in three different ways; with spring butterflies, easter egg nests and daffodils.
1. Colour the icing using blue food colouring (e.g. Sugarflair Paste Colour) | 2. Knead icing and roll out | 3. Cut out shape as shown above (top left) | 4. Pinch each corner and push inwards to curve sides (bottom right) | 5. Roll tube of white icing & cut to size | 6. Using a tiny bit of water, stick tube of icing down the middle of the wings | 7. Imprint two dots onto white tube & pattern wings | 8. Pipe chocolate icing all over cupcake (No. 30 tip) | 9. Pipe green icing on top (No. 2 tip) | 10. Add butterfly
1. Knead icing and roll out | 2. Split icing into three sections | 3. Colour each section differently using food colouring (e.g. Sugarflair Paste Colour) | 4. Split each section into smaller balls | 5. Roll each ball into an egg-like shape | 6. Pipe green icing all over the cupcake (No. 30 tip) | 7. Pipe chocolate icing on top in a circular manner, like a birds nest (No. 2 tip) | 8. Add eggs on top of the next
1. Split icing into two sections | 2. Colour one section green & the other yellow using food colouring (e.g. Sugarflair Paste Colour) | 3. Roll out yellow section & cut out 1 star per cupcake (top left) | 4. Roll out green section & cut out 3 leaves per cupcake (top left) | 5. Pinch the corners of each shape & push inwards to curve sides (bottom right) | 6. Roll out spare yellow icing into short tubes, with one end slightly thicker | 7. Indent the thicker end of the tube with funnel shaped modelling tool | 8. Stick this to the star shape with a little bit of water | 9. Pipe chocolate icing all over the cupcake (No. 30 tip) | 10. Pipe green icing on top | 11. Add daffodil | 12. Stick leaves into green icing just under the daffodil
1. Sugarflair Paste Colour, £2.00 - 3.00, Amazon UK / The UK Cookshop
2. Tala Icing Modelling Tool Set, £2.48, Amazon UK / Lakeland
3. Tala Icing Syringe Set, £21.50, Amazon UK / Lakeland
4. Renshaw White Chocolate Ready to Roll Icing, £1.99, The UK Cookshop
I hope you enjoyed reading this blog post as much as I enjoyed writing it! If you have enjoyed it, please share it and leave me a comment below as I'd love to know what you think :)
Happy Easter everyone!
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In celebration of it finally being the end of the week, I thought I would share with you five pieces of artwork which have recently caught my eye. Since joining society6 I have become so much more aware of all the lovely art, illustrations and talented artists out there - it's been really quite eye opening! I absolutely love cats, so it could be that I'm being a bit biased but to me, cats most definitely have had a bit of a comeback?! Whether it's cushions, greeting cards, iphone cases, art prints or fashion, since late last year, fury felines are everywhere. No longer is it 'Be more dog', it is definitely all about BE(ING) MORE CAT!
(1) A Lot of Cats by Kitten Rain on society6 | (2) CAT // AWARE by Amy Hamilton on society6 | (3) Hooray Party Cat by Hello Harriet on Etsy | (4) Cats Map of the World Map by artPause on Etsy | (5) Untitled by @liviing on instagram
If you like the idea of being a bit more cat, have a look at the lovely BE MORE CAT comic over on Eat, Sleep, Sniff and the BE MORE CAT campaign, with lots of lovely illustrations by Eat, Sleep, Sniff, on the Cats Protection website.
What do you think of the prints above?
Have you got any other feline-friendly art recommendations?
Let me know in the comments below!
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Remember me?! It's certainly been a while... Life has been so hectic since I started on the Doctorate and I feel like I've barely had time to do anything non-psychology related, let alone then write about it on here (sad times). But, I'm on annual leave this week (phew!) and am getting some much needed r&r (*happy sigh*). Anyway, I thought I would write a blog post as yesterday was rather momentous for isoscella…
Panda loves you to the moon & back framed art print, $33 (approx. £21.49)
Although I am of course really excited that my artwork is now available to buy, I have to admit that I'm still quite nervous about it being out there for all to see. But it's always been a bit of a dream of mine to actually sell some of my artwork, so fingers crossed. To be honest, I always thought I would have a little etsy store and print and produce my own products. But as I said before, I'm so busy now that I just don't see myself having time to do that for at least another 3 years. So at least this way, my art is available for people to see (and hopefully like... eeek) and all I have to do is keep doodling and upload them to society6 who will then do the rest.
Panda loves you to the moon & back canvas print, $85 (approx. £55.35)
So that's my news! I hope to blog again soon but until then, check out my isoscella store on society6 and be sure to have a look at all the other artists on there (so much talent I tell you!)
Are any of you on society6?
What do you think?
Let me know in the comments!
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Rather sadly I didn't have time to do a little illustration this week and so I wasn't able to upload a motivational monday post. I've not only been busy getting ready for the upcoming changes in my life, but perhaps because of all these changes, my body decided to give in to one illness after another. So as a bit of a treat, I had a relaxing afternoon/evening in on Friday and watched endless romcoms, ate an entire chocolate orange and painted my nails. I love triangles on absolutely everything from cushions to jewellery, and so they ofcourse made an appearance on my nails!
STEP 1. First I painted half of my nails in one colour. Here I am using a Rimmel 60 Seconds Rita Ora Nail Polish in the shade 'Breakfast in Bed'. After allowing the first coat to dry, I then painted a second coat.
STEP 2. Next, I painted two coats of a nude shade from Topshop on the other half of my nails.
STEP 3. Finally, I drew three chevrons from the bottom corners of my nail to the middle and filled in the bottom chevron to create a gold filled triangle.
What do you think of this nail art?
I loved to hear your opinion in the comments below!
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