Won't be using this one, as it's not in keeping with the others, but it's a taste of things to come.
Monday, 19 April 2010
Abandoned Euphoria Illustration for Six States...
Won't be using this one, as it's not in keeping with the others, but it's a taste of things to come.
Abandoned Euphoria Illustration for Six States...
Won't be using this one, as it's not in keeping with the others, but it's a taste of things to come.
Saturday, 17 April 2010
SIX STATES OF INTOXICATION
WATCH THIS SPACE for information on my first exhibition entitled Six States of Intoxication happening this summer in London.
Haven't had confirmation on space yet but it's looking like Viktor Wynd's in East London. www.viktorwyndfineart.co.uk/
Haven't had confirmation on space yet but it's looking like Viktor Wynd's in East London. www.viktorwyndfineart.co.uk/
SIX STATES OF INTOXICATION
WATCH THIS SPACE for information on my first exhibition entitled Six States of Intoxication happening this summer in London.
Haven't had confirmation on space yet but it's looking like Viktor Wynd's in East London. www.viktorwyndfineart.co.uk/
Haven't had confirmation on space yet but it's looking like Viktor Wynd's in East London. www.viktorwyndfineart.co.uk/
PHOTO TO PORTRAIT
For anyone wishing to have an original piece of artwork, which is personal and unique to you, why not send me a favourite photograph of a loved one, may it be a friend, family member, your dog or cat, parrot or rat or even a garden spot or even your house. You can choose from either a simple pencil drawing, or with an added splash of watercolour.
The size of your picture is up to you, sizes available are A5, A4 or A3.
Prices range from £20 for an A5 pencil, £30 for A4 and £40 for A3 with £5 each for the addition of watercolour.
These make wonderful, original gifts and elegant alternatives to framed photographs.
Simply order by attaching your chosen photograph and requesting the size and if you require the colour addition to fayewestillustration@hotmail.com
PHOTO TO PORTRAIT
For anyone wishing to have an original piece of artwork, which is personal and unique to you, why not send me a favourite photograph of a loved one, may it be a friend, family member, your dog or cat, parrot or rat or even a garden spot or even your house. You can choose from either a simple pencil drawing, or with an added splash of watercolour.
The size of your picture is up to you, sizes available are A5, A4 or A3.
Prices range from £20 for an A5 pencil, £30 for A4 and £40 for A3 with £5 each for the addition of watercolour.
These make wonderful, original gifts and elegant alternatives to framed photographs.
Simply order by attaching your chosen photograph and requesting the size and if you require the colour addition to fayewestillustration@hotmail.com
The way into our hearts here at Amelia’s Magazine, is through our stomachs. Faye West, the clever little muffin, wooed us with cupcakes hand delivered to our door
After worrying about whether they were actually meant to be eaten or not (admittedly, we were only briefly torn about it) and whether we wanted to digest the lovely little things, leaving only crumbs and paper cupcake wrappers as evidence that they ever existed, these three piglets couldn’t help but scoff the lot (with Amelia’s help).
In one fell inhalation, all the cupcakes were gone, so we thought we might ask Faye a few questions…
Who were the illustrations of on the cupcakes?
They were a little bit of everything that influences me, queens, victorian children, dolly birds and female musicians.
Were the illustrations actually edible? Yes, entirely edible. I painted them onto wafer paper using food colouring which work just like watercolours. I then stuck them on with the pink icing.
How do you feel about people eating your illustrations and them disappearing into the bowels of their stomachs?I quite like the idea of eating very pretty food, like sugared rose petals!
Can you tell us the recipe for the cupcakes?
Right:
5 oz (150g) Butter – softened5 oz (150g) superfine (castor) sugar6 oz (175g) self-raising flour3 eggs1 tsp vanilla extractdrops of pink food colouring
1. Pre-heat the oven to 350oF (180oC).2. Line a 12 cup cake pan, with cup cake papers.3. Crack the eggs into a cup and beat lightly with a fork.4. Place all the ingredients in a large bowl.5. Beat with a whisk for 2 minutes, until light and creamy.6. Divide the mixture evenly between the cake cases.7. Bake for 18-20 minutes until risen and firm to touch.8. Allow to cool for a few minutes and then transfer to a wire rack.9. Allow to cool fully before icing.
5 oz (150g) Butter – softened5 oz (150g) superfine (castor) sugar6 oz (175g) self-raising flour3 eggs1 tsp vanilla extractdrops of pink food colouring
1. Pre-heat the oven to 350oF (180oC).2. Line a 12 cup cake pan, with cup cake papers.3. Crack the eggs into a cup and beat lightly with a fork.4. Place all the ingredients in a large bowl.5. Beat with a whisk for 2 minutes, until light and creamy.6. Divide the mixture evenly between the cake cases.7. Bake for 18-20 minutes until risen and firm to touch.8. Allow to cool for a few minutes and then transfer to a wire rack.9. Allow to cool fully before icing.
For the icing whisk together water and icing sugar and a drop of food colouring until slightly thick and runny, then dribble onto the cupcakes, stick on the wafers while the icing is still sticky.
You can buy packs of wafer paper which you can then directly paint onto with the food colouring and then cut out with kitchen scissors ready to decorate the cakes with.
You can buy packs of wafer paper which you can then directly paint onto with the food colouring and then cut out with kitchen scissors ready to decorate the cakes with.
Do you bake other things? Like what?
I do make a lot of chocolate cupcakes for my flatmates when I am having a domestic housewife kind of day. When I was younger I was obsessed with baking salt-dough fat mermaids.
The way into our hearts here at Amelia’s Magazine, is through our stomachs. Faye West, the clever little muffin, wooed us with cupcakes hand delivered to our door
After worrying about whether they were actually meant to be eaten or not (admittedly, we were only briefly torn about it) and whether we wanted to digest the lovely little things, leaving only crumbs and paper cupcake wrappers as evidence that they ever existed, these three piglets couldn’t help but scoff the lot (with Amelia’s help).
In one fell inhalation, all the cupcakes were gone, so we thought we might ask Faye a few questions…
Who were the illustrations of on the cupcakes?
They were a little bit of everything that influences me, queens, victorian children, dolly birds and female musicians.
Were the illustrations actually edible? Yes, entirely edible. I painted them onto wafer paper using food colouring which work just like watercolours. I then stuck them on with the pink icing.
How do you feel about people eating your illustrations and them disappearing into the bowels of their stomachs?I quite like the idea of eating very pretty food, like sugared rose petals!
Can you tell us the recipe for the cupcakes?
Right:
5 oz (150g) Butter – softened5 oz (150g) superfine (castor) sugar6 oz (175g) self-raising flour3 eggs1 tsp vanilla extractdrops of pink food colouring
1. Pre-heat the oven to 350oF (180oC).2. Line a 12 cup cake pan, with cup cake papers.3. Crack the eggs into a cup and beat lightly with a fork.4. Place all the ingredients in a large bowl.5. Beat with a whisk for 2 minutes, until light and creamy.6. Divide the mixture evenly between the cake cases.7. Bake for 18-20 minutes until risen and firm to touch.8. Allow to cool for a few minutes and then transfer to a wire rack.9. Allow to cool fully before icing.
5 oz (150g) Butter – softened5 oz (150g) superfine (castor) sugar6 oz (175g) self-raising flour3 eggs1 tsp vanilla extractdrops of pink food colouring
1. Pre-heat the oven to 350oF (180oC).2. Line a 12 cup cake pan, with cup cake papers.3. Crack the eggs into a cup and beat lightly with a fork.4. Place all the ingredients in a large bowl.5. Beat with a whisk for 2 minutes, until light and creamy.6. Divide the mixture evenly between the cake cases.7. Bake for 18-20 minutes until risen and firm to touch.8. Allow to cool for a few minutes and then transfer to a wire rack.9. Allow to cool fully before icing.
For the icing whisk together water and icing sugar and a drop of food colouring until slightly thick and runny, then dribble onto the cupcakes, stick on the wafers while the icing is still sticky.
You can buy packs of wafer paper which you can then directly paint onto with the food colouring and then cut out with kitchen scissors ready to decorate the cakes with.
You can buy packs of wafer paper which you can then directly paint onto with the food colouring and then cut out with kitchen scissors ready to decorate the cakes with.
Do you bake other things? Like what?
I do make a lot of chocolate cupcakes for my flatmates when I am having a domestic housewife kind of day. When I was younger I was obsessed with baking salt-dough fat mermaids.
Vogue Article
West Is Best
Leisa Barnett
16 January 2009
ILLUSTRATOR Faye West is thrilled to have become the latest artist to join the Topshop T-shirt brigade - and it's all thanks to Courtney Love.
Devon-born West is obsessed with idea of modern femininity which, she believes, is epitomised by her icon, Love; a woman who isn't afraid to be creative with her look. The artist loves nothing more than adding a smattering of cosmetics onto her canvases - along with watercolour, acrylic, pencil or ink - to create a highly stylised version of womanhood.
"I really love the fact that women don't feel the need to tone down their prettiness in order to be taken seriously these days," West tells us. "They're not ashamed to be out there with their creativity, their make-up and their fashion - it doesn't mean they're superficial, or fake. I love that a woman doesn't have to be natural to show she means business."
Having hooked Topshop bosses with a rendering of a colourfully made-up Love in her portfolio, West was commissioned to design a T for the label's jersey collection. Clown Girl, priced £40, is available in-store now.
Leisa Barnett
16 January 2009
ILLUSTRATOR Faye West is thrilled to have become the latest artist to join the Topshop T-shirt brigade - and it's all thanks to Courtney Love.
Devon-born West is obsessed with idea of modern femininity which, she believes, is epitomised by her icon, Love; a woman who isn't afraid to be creative with her look. The artist loves nothing more than adding a smattering of cosmetics onto her canvases - along with watercolour, acrylic, pencil or ink - to create a highly stylised version of womanhood.
"I really love the fact that women don't feel the need to tone down their prettiness in order to be taken seriously these days," West tells us. "They're not ashamed to be out there with their creativity, their make-up and their fashion - it doesn't mean they're superficial, or fake. I love that a woman doesn't have to be natural to show she means business."
Having hooked Topshop bosses with a rendering of a colourfully made-up Love in her portfolio, West was commissioned to design a T for the label's jersey collection. Clown Girl, priced £40, is available in-store now.
Vogue Article
West Is Best
Leisa Barnett
16 January 2009
ILLUSTRATOR Faye West is thrilled to have become the latest artist to join the Topshop T-shirt brigade - and it's all thanks to Courtney Love.
Devon-born West is obsessed with idea of modern femininity which, she believes, is epitomised by her icon, Love; a woman who isn't afraid to be creative with her look. The artist loves nothing more than adding a smattering of cosmetics onto her canvases - along with watercolour, acrylic, pencil or ink - to create a highly stylised version of womanhood.
"I really love the fact that women don't feel the need to tone down their prettiness in order to be taken seriously these days," West tells us. "They're not ashamed to be out there with their creativity, their make-up and their fashion - it doesn't mean they're superficial, or fake. I love that a woman doesn't have to be natural to show she means business."
Having hooked Topshop bosses with a rendering of a colourfully made-up Love in her portfolio, West was commissioned to design a T for the label's jersey collection. Clown Girl, priced £40, is available in-store now.
Leisa Barnett
16 January 2009
ILLUSTRATOR Faye West is thrilled to have become the latest artist to join the Topshop T-shirt brigade - and it's all thanks to Courtney Love.
Devon-born West is obsessed with idea of modern femininity which, she believes, is epitomised by her icon, Love; a woman who isn't afraid to be creative with her look. The artist loves nothing more than adding a smattering of cosmetics onto her canvases - along with watercolour, acrylic, pencil or ink - to create a highly stylised version of womanhood.
"I really love the fact that women don't feel the need to tone down their prettiness in order to be taken seriously these days," West tells us. "They're not ashamed to be out there with their creativity, their make-up and their fashion - it doesn't mean they're superficial, or fake. I love that a woman doesn't have to be natural to show she means business."
Having hooked Topshop bosses with a rendering of a colourfully made-up Love in her portfolio, West was commissioned to design a T for the label's jersey collection. Clown Girl, priced £40, is available in-store now.
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