St Ives, Seals and St Michael's Mount

 

A little bit late, but I wanted to put these pics up anyway, even just for me to look back on. In June, I went on holiday with my folks to the lovely St Ives in Cornwall. Despite the weather (should have gone during the July heatwave!) I had a blissful, relaxing time. Thanks Mum and Dad. Love you loads :)

Mary Sweet photography (Marie Dabbadie)

This awesoem photograph (and not because i'm in it!) was taken by the super talented Mary Sweet, a rad skater and photographer from France. Check her work on her fb page: https://www.facebook.com/marysweetphotography

Merci Marie! :)

Goodrich Castle and Symonds Yat

A day out to Herefordshire for my birthday. Can't go wrong with castles and rivers.

Spring Carnival Art Fair 2013!

A busier part of the day!

Me looking like a goon before my spreading-the-word mission down a busy market-fuelled Deptford High Street

Benjamin Phillips and Jazmine Miles-Long (and friend!) - some artists at the Fair

Nik Jones skateboard coaching

Calm & Collected - or not!

After my (unnecessary) worry and stress, Spring carnival Art Fair 2013 was a success! Above are just a few images of the day. More can be found on http://springcarnival-artfair.tumblr.com/

Apologies for the late blogging, since the fair happened at the end of May! Anyway, it was an awesome day and everyone had a whale of a time (I love whales!) Everyone was so supportive and I'm stoked that I managed to pull something like this off. People have even been asking me when am I going to do it again! I really didn't think I'd be up for organising anything else like this because it's so stressful. But it's only stressful because my mind made it so.

Next time, all I need to do is aim the event at the right demographic. All that could have made it better was to have more people turn up! That's down to the right sort of promotion at the 'right' people. I didn't fail at that, but I definitely could have done better. It's all learning, right?

Speaking of learning, (and in a fun way!) here's a reminder of why I did this Fair:
http://www.theflyingseagullproject.com/

Here is my Just Giving account:
https://www.justgiving.com/harrietalana

I will be going out to Romania for three months, at the end of September to volunteer with the Seagulls in their epic mission of spreading joy and laughter through fun, alternative education. Through this Art Fair and a few other donations,  I have currently raised half the amount (£300) I need to pay for my food and accommodation whilst out there. I wouldn't have been able to have done this without everyone's support, so once again thank you so much to everyone's help and support so far! :D

Alternative Press Spring 2013

 Check out the Science teee 

busy busy busy...

I had a table at Alternative Press, part of No Dark Places festival at The Albert in North London, over the weekend. I hadn't done a Fair like this (apart from my own one last weekend - will post about that soon) and it was a wicked day! The space was ram-packed full of creative talent, radical zines and crowds of eager punters... including a gorgeous punk owned German Shepherd who sat under my table! Maybe he liked my animal printed zine covers!

Aaaaanyway, thanks Amneet and Rose of Alternative Press for having me on board. Aaaaand to anybody who bought something, looked at my work or just chatted with with me! :)

Art Zine Issue 6

Just finished this piece for online issue 6 of Art Zine which you can find online...

http://www.opendoorsgallery.com/artzine/

Thanks to Tom at Open Doors Gallery for giving me this opportunity :)

Spring Carnival Art Fair Poster

Digital version. layers hand-rendered then put together in Photoshop

The Beautiful Kristine Bumeistere, at Hato Press, who printed it for me

Original drawing ;)

This is the poster artwork I have done for the Spring Carnival Art Fair  -  held to raise funds to volunteer with the Flying Seagull Project in Romania. Keep your eyes peeled for these colourful monstrosities going up around South London!

Spring Carnival tumblr: 

http://springcarnival-artfair.tumblr.com/

Check out what the Seagulls have been doing recently:

http://www.theflyingseagullproject.com/category/flying-seagulls-recent-news/

Practising for a poster

Romanian people

Spring Carnival Art Fair!

I am putting on an Art Fair to raise funds to go out and volunteer with The Flying Seagull Project in Romania. please check out the tumblr I have set up documenting the Art Fair.

Please email me if you would like to hire a table on harrietalana@hotmail.co.uk

Here is a link to the tumblr page: http://springcarnival-artfair.tumblr.com/

And the the FLying Seagulls website: http://www.theflyingseagullproject.com/