Margaret Nelson » Diary

Seasons Greetings!

Margaret — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 02:45:33 +0000

Little things

Margaret — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:06:36 +0000

Small designs. The fish were to decorate a wedding script and certificate for a couple who were keen divers; the basic pattern was copied from a Dover copyright-free resource book, then coloured with Photoshop. The Twitter links are for my blogs, which all have different colour themes.

If you do want to follow me on Twitter, click here.

Get in touch if you want small graphics for anything like this.

Sunscreen

Margaret — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:49:03 +0000

Digital image used to illustrate a blog post.

The cat in the cupboard

Margaret — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:46:38 +0000

Ink, wash and crayon sketch.

The owl and the pussycat

Margaret — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:12:03 +0000

Drawn with rollerball pen on textured paper, coloured in Photoshop. Used for wedding stationery.

Procrastination

Margaret — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:58:19 +0000

I’m an expert (ink & wash).

Remembering Douglas

Margaret — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:06:26 +0000

One of my favourite Douglas Adams quotes – digital image, using a photograph of the moon.

My moon photographs are never as good as I’d like them to be, but this is one of the better ones…

Health Council illustrations

Margaret — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:29:43 +0000

Illustrations for a Community Health Council annual report. The cover illustration, captioned “We are here to help”, was meant to be a sort of superman. I was told later that it closely resembled the Chief Executive, who I didn’t know.

The doctor with the megaphone was meant to illustrate a piece about poor communication between doctors and patients.

The roadside stall illustrated a piece about rural dispensing services.

Houses

Margaret — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:34 +0000

Illustration for a local authority housing publication. Ink drawing, scanned and coloured.

Radioactive

Margaret — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:46:21 +0000

Digital image, an illustration for an article about nuclear waste. I cheated by combining images found on the web, then Photoshopped.

It would probably work better with the CND symbol, which is also round, but I like the acid yellow of the radioactivity symbol, which suggests toxicity.