Horray! Next week I’ll be painting on the walls of Nottingham Castle as part of the touring V & A Street Art exhibition. A couple of us local Nottingham folk (Jon Burgerman, GING, DLK, smallkid – to name a few) have been asked to join in and bring some extra colour to the building while the show is being hosted here in the Castle. EXCITING TIMES!!!

For more info and updates here’s their facebook page!

Runs From July 2nd – September 25th!

I’m having a weird day today. Is anyone else feeling that? Maybe there’s a storm-a-comin’. I think it’s been a weird start to the month in truth which is probably why I’ve been so quiet on here, sorry about that! I did find out that 3 days of pure procrastination means you end up with a comfy crochet shawl – so it can’t be all bad. I’ll get some pictures of it to show you. I’m a mixture of ‘pleased as punch’ and ‘guilt ridden’ because I probably shouldn’t have spent 3 days playing about with wool…

Anyway! Even though today’s been an odd one I did mange to squeeze out a new design for a new card that is slowly making its way into the shop! Can’t say no to a cat lady!

Boy oh Boy it’s getting busy busy from where I’m sat so to calm things down a little I thought I’d share a test-doodle I’ve just finished. Inspired by the Moscow State Circus who were in town last week, it’s hopefully going to go towards a project I’m part of this summer – really exciting! I’m so pleased with how the test has come out I might even make it into a print! What do you think?

UPDATED – it’s now a print available in the shop!

2 new prints and a new tote bag! And now they’re in the shop! Print’s measure 8″x 6″ and priced at £10 each. The Tote bags cost £8 each. Woop woop!

I bought this desk YEARS ago from a charity shop for the grand total of £3!! It’s been living in a friends basement and ever since, mainly because I could never find an easy way of getting it home via public transport and I kept forgetting about it. But as you can see I finally brought it home!! It has little legs you can screw on the bottom but for now they’re tucked away inside and I have just the top resting on my work table. It makes the table the perfect height for painting projects so I’ve nicknamed it my ‘paint station’ for now. In the past I’ve been using big books to lean on (as you can see in this older post) as an attempt to limit the back damage I keep accidentally inflicting on myself. Fingers crossed this beauty does the trick!

Below: The spring flowers are filtering their way into a lot of my doodles at the moment (but I think that was a bit obvious in the recent sketch book updates). Anyway, here are some of the beautiful flowers I’ve been enjoying and some examples of how I’ve been putting them in my pictures.

And here is a random illya picture:

Short hair stripy cat – £20 (Measures 7.1″ x 9.1″) Acrylic on Card

Scruffy stripey cat – £20 (Measures 7.1″ x 9.1″) Acrylic on Card

Email me if you’re interested in purchasing any of them! (Hello [at] amyblackwell.co.uk )

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