Allison Cole

I mainly chose this image ('Bird in Tree' by Allison Cole) so I could motivate myself to do something over summer. I was at Semi-Permanent on Friday/Saturday and so I'm already feeling quite motivated to do design work, homework not included unfortunately. But not long now. Allison has a shop: http://www.bangbangyourethread.com/ where she sells notebooks, badges, original artwork and prints. They're all things I could easily be selling, and it gives me an idea on how I should price things too. Oh my poor dusty badge machine...

But about the image. I love cut paper, it can be so complicated or simplified down completely. The rawness and just the hand-made feeling is beautiful, you can't really replicate it on a computer. I might make my next illustration for uni a cut paper one... Allison's portfolio website is here: http://www.allisoncoleillustration.com/about.html