Hello there!
Hope you are doing something lovely this Easter.
Well the April Print Robin Print Club post has flown! I had the best time doing this artwork for the print. It is collaged watercolour and gouache.
The most intriguing thing I’m finding with the preparation of of each post, is the excitement!
I’m truly having fun dreaming up all the elements for each envelope.
By having a go I’ve discovered a whole new avenue of exploration. Thanks to my lovely subscribers, I’m pushing myself to achieve more, imagining them opening them at the other end.
Now I can see new textile projects and scrumptious felts using these elements of teapots and teacups as inspiration.
One pursuit rubs off onto another don’t you think?
They feed each other, be it theme or shape or colourways.
Anyway, thoughts for today as I clean the studio.
Lots of love
Elizabeth xxx
Howdy!
Madly collating this months mailout for Pink Robin print club. The April mailout focuses on “Teatime!”
I just love drawing vessels so I wonder if I’m actually challenging myself at all this month, which was my aim when I started my mail club at the beginning of the year.
Mmm…. Will dwell on that. I think as artists we readily go to a subject or set of colours and shapes that we’ve had success with in the past and it can get predictable. Do you agree?
Dear friends
How are you? Hope your week is chugging along smoothly.
I’ve been busy in the studio collating all the elements for the Pink Robin Print Club. I can hardly believe it’s nearly time to post again!
If you don’t know, I started a new print club at the beginning of the year. I’d been thinking about it for so long and I thought “for goodness sake Elizabeth just start and see what happens!”
Do you ever chat to yourself like that?
This month the theme is Birds
If you are curious or keen there’s still time to join - post flies away on the 2nd March. All details are on the website
Cheers Elizabeth
Hi there lovelies! The next mailout for Print Robin Print Club is about to fly out! I have had the best fun creating these little buildings which are the theme. You even get your own handpainted little house as well!
Hi there fine folk!
Hoping you are well and are finding time to do something fun,something creative!
I thought that you might like to have a sneak peak of February‘s mail out. This months’ theme is buildings.
Here are some preparatory drawings and some pattern tests that I do when I am coming up with a new illustration.
I find it much easier to move the different patterns around on separate cards, so that I can see what bounces off well with another.
These cards are never a waste because I can store and keep them for another occasion, where I can mix and match again and hopefully come up with a new design. Do you have any tricks when you are designing something?
Chat soon
Cheers Elizabeth x
Happy New Year! Hope you had a splendid seeing in of 2026. Just to let you know I’m heading to the post office tomorrow with the first mailout - I’m so excited I started this. Xx
Hi gorgeous peeps,
I’ve been beetling away on the first watercolour collage for Pink Robyn Print club!
Here is a sneaky preview! I debated whether or not to share it or keep the whole thing as a surprise.
I had not anticipated how excited I would be about creating the different elements for my first post.
I’m guessing it will be the same for every mail out! There is an original hand painted tree for everyone too!
Stickers arrive today I can hardly wait!
First post will go 2nd January!
XX
Hello dear friends wherever you are .
Hope your week has started well.
Yesterday I went to out to the car to discover that someone had ripped off the windscreen wiper and just left it there - twisted and unusable. Poor little Yaris.
Charming just charming, was my first thought.
Now I’m on the lookout for that someone to send the ….. wait for it….. $502.00 bill to replace it.
So what exactly do you do? Well I said some unladylike words (quietly) gave thanks that at least the car was still there, that it wasn’t raining and went for a coffee.
So on a much happier note I’ve finally finished making plans for my new print club! Yippee!
“Pink Robin Print Club” is now up on the website and you can read all the details there. There comes a point when you have to stop polishing something and launch it.
Feel free to ask me any questions about it. The first mail out will be in January 2026.
Sending Hugs
Elizabeth
Xx
Howdy Gorgeous people
I’ve decided I’d like to run a snail mail club. As many of you will know, a snail mail club is a monthly mail out where I post an envelope (birthday sized) with a postcard print of an original piece of my artwork, plus a few extras.
This artwork is designed especially for print club.
Why do it? Well I just adore receiving mail - always have done - I have boxes of correspondence and birthday and Christmas cards dating back decades. It is a genuine pleasure to look at them now and then. And also - those artists that are doing this, seem to be having such fun!
So the idea where you receive something once a month that is not a bill or advertising but something created with lots of love and thought about sums it up. Each month would be a surprise!
It will start in January 2026 and the details will be on the website soon.
Lots of love
E
PS pics show something I’ve been doing the last couple of nights
Hi there friends and a massive welcome to all the new followers!
You’ve probably been thinking I’d dropped off the ends of the earth!
In actual fact I’ve done another school ( pics on that soon) whilst prepping for another next term!
So my year has been occupied with schools. Hundreds of children with what seems like millions of pieces of painted paper, alongside many, many hours of planning and executing.
One thing I’ve realised is that I am totally in love with collage.
I see so many new works growing out of these enormous projects and I really hope to put them into new artworks before life hurtles along too much further.
Here is the completed “Jungle Party” you might recall from a few posts ago. I love it.
What’s exciting is that the school have decided to use an image of it as the cover for a book they are producing which will feature this residency. Yay! Isn’t it lovely when these unexpected little things happen?
I believe its at the framers - I don’t know that I’ve seen a frame this enormous!
I hope you are being super creative or even just making lovely plans in a sketchbook and promising yourself to do so.
Lots of love
Elizabeth
Xx
Hi there, Hope you are well!
After I completed “out of this world. “. please see last post ) I went straight into preparation for my next residency which was to have the theme of jungle- and the best part about this job was the fact that the animals could be doing fun things so we decided on a party and you will notice that all the students work has finally come to fruition. It took me a good 4 to 6 weeks to assemble it because they were just so many dozens upon dozens ….. of pieces! Animals birds foliage flowers bugs butterflies party hats, cakes ……. You can imagine how much cutting out took place! It was delivered to school last week so here’s hoping everyone is as thrilled as me! Every student is represented somewhere in our lovely big work and I think it will be fun for them to find their piece! I couldn’t get a single shot of t but hope to when it is installed. I hope you enjoy these pics. Cheers Elizabeth xxx
