Pre orders // The Hipster Lumberjack

Getting my illustrations ready for printing seems to be a tragically chaotic process...
It should be a lot simpler.

The Hipster Lumberjack is heading off to the printer soon, so if you are keen to order one for yourself, send me through an email to eleanor.mccomb@gmail.com 

The print is on A3, but takes up the space of an A4 piece of paper.
All the prints will have either the blue shirt, or yellow shirt, - but if you want one that is 100% yours, I have a limited number of lino prints on 225gsm A3 that can be coloured.

Pre-orders (before April 5) get FREE SHIPPING Australia wide.

I will have more new work up soon in the shop (there is a new link in the side bar!) and if you go give it a click, you can buy the pictured print!

Excuses

The husband has decided that he would like to study film and so for the past month we have been looking at different schools, applying for schools, preparing portfolios, and all those other things that had to be done before application dead lines.

I also signed up for a study course myself so that I could help supplement income.

Then I had a baby.

In the week of limbo between the baby's due date and his actual birth date I did do a little bit of painting. This is my favourite of them. Just to prove that I'm still alive haha.

two little eyes

 

Winken, Blinken and Nod

by Eugene Field, 1850-1895.

Winken, Blinken, and Nod one night
 Sailed off in a wooden shoe --
Sailed off on a river of crystal light,
Into a sea of dew.
"Where are you going, and what do you wish?"
The old moon asked the three.
"We have come to fish for the herring fish
That live in the beautiful sea;
Nets of silver and gold have we!"

Said Winken,

Blinken,

And Nod.

The old moon laughed and sang a song,
As they rocked in the wooden shoe,
And the wind that sped them all night long
Ruffled the waves of dew.
The little stars were the herring fish
That lived in the beautiful sea --
"Now cast your nets wherever you wish --
Never afeard are we";
So cried the stars to the fisherman three:

Winken,

Blinken,

And Nod.

 All night long their nets they threw
To the stars in the twinkling foam --
Then down from the skies came the wooden shoe
Bringing the fisherman home;
'Twas all so pretty a sail it seemed
As if it could not be,
And some folks thought 'twas a dream they'd dreamed
Of sailing that beautiful sea --
But I shall name you the fishermen three:

Winken,

Blinken,

And Nod.

Winken and Blinken are two little eyes,
And Nod is a little head,
And the wooden shoes that sailed the skies
Is the wee one's trundle-bed.
So shut your eyes while mother sings
Of wonderful sights that be,
And you shall see the beautiful things
As you rock in the misty sea,
Where the old shoe rocked the fisherman three:

Winken,

Blinken,

And Nod.

a familiar scene

This is the first in a series of 3D paper cut water colour paintings that will illustrate different children's stories.

Naturally Little Red Riding Hood was the first one I tackled... I don't know why I like drawing this story so much, but I think it has something to do with my affection for drawing trees...

They will be available on my etsy store soon (as soon as I figure out postage costs)