Aberdeen project
Aberdeen skyline, a skyline for all seasons. I'm blogging my journey of drawing 100 skylines and the journey starts where the Dee and Don rivers…
Aberdeen skyline, a skyline for all seasons. I'm blogging my journey of drawing 100 skylines and the journey starts where the Dee and Don rivers…
If you're following me on Social Media may have noticed I’m slightly obsessed with city skylines and travel. Following my Aberdeen skyline, I continued along…
Hello! Welcome to my blog where I'm usually talking (a lot) about the inspiration behind a particular piece of work and I know you're going to love…
This week: Autumn adventures, mini breaks and a year in our new home. It's November and the first Autumn in our new home. If you've known…
Congratulations Victoria on your first Paris show. Here’s 5 looks from earlier today
8th September 2022. Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II has died.
A beach umbrella and a breeze made for the perfect weekend. It was cool and glorious. Read more…
It’s true I’ve drawn all the bowler hats, umbrella’s, tea pots and Union Jacks you’ll ever need. Today I share 5 of my favourite London art prints.
…and just like that a month has passed since the last Friday 5 and I’m sitting in my garden office typing away. Hello again!
This year I turned 20. Ok, not my actual human birthday, my 20-years-in-business-birthday.
There’s a new Pantone colour – Pantone Pink PP – and it is divine!
This weeks Friday 5 is written in appreciation of the simpler things in life, as we live our day to day waiting for peace.
This weeks Friday 5 has 5 suggestions to help Ukraine.
It’s been a busy few weeks at Natalie Ryan Design. Not one of those busy-with-big-things times, more a series of smaller tasks that have needed care and attention.
Our 2022 Valentine’s Collection is live. Suddenly the studio is full of bright pinks, reds and deep, rich navy shades. I’m wearing a hoodie with a heart printed on the front and generally feeling the love.
This week at Natalie Ryan Design: Newness, plans and launching into the year ahead.
I’m off until 4th January and this Friday five is all about how I’m spending my week off.
his week: New skylines, Christmas lights and the Autumn sale.
This week: The RA, House of Illustration & London.
Joyeux Noel, Feliz Navidad, Merry Christmas, Frohe Weihnachten, Buon Natale, Prettige Kerstdagen…
16th October 2021 This week: Autumn leaves, soup and carving pumpkins. By day I’m Christmas planning and prepping for our busy season. By early morning /…
Natalie Ryan Friday 5 in celebration of you, dear friends, you are wonderful.
This weeks Friday 5 is all about the Wildheart autumn apparel by Natalie Ryan.
This weeks Friday Five: Travel, Autumn and cosying up.
Five places I visited in Winchester this week…a thirsty Friday 5.
This week: Creativity, food and time spent at home.
This week: English summer, birthdays, coffee and love letters.
This week from Hampshire – the ocean, teeth, portraits and winners!
So you want a portrait drawing? Well if you do, I have put together this helpful guild to show you the different types of portraits I offer and their price points.
What is Giclée printing? A quick and easy guide to explain the term and show you why we use Giclée printing.
This week: champagne, cuddles and keeping cool…
Our favourite coastal themed art prints to recreate those coastal vibes at home.
This week: photo shoots, pizza, long walks & furnishings
Abstract art is a huge trend in interior design right now, and here’s 5 ways to incorporate abstract into your home.
This week: Music, sofa’s, Suffolk & of course footy!
The Aberdeen skyline, where the Dee and Don rivers meet the North Sea.
I’m slightly obsessed with city skylines and travel. Following my Aberdeen skyline, I decided to continue along this theme with a skyline of Edinburgh, illustrating the capital of Scotland.
The amazing Blackpool is so wonderful and so worth talking about; I love it. This was a joy to work on.
This week: house moves, time well spent, beauty treatments & painted butterflies.
Emily Allchurch reinvents Old Master paintings and produces capricci with a contemporary narrative.
Fantastical notions of reality. Mr Benn was created 50 years ago by artist, illustrator and writer David McKee. Eliza Williams writes for Creative Review: “mention his…
Image: Jeff Koons Puppy, 1992 Guardian of the Guggenheim. American artist Jeff Koon, father of 8, previously married to La Cicciolina (a former porn star and latter…
Reshaping Reality In looking at the relationship between architecture and art the article Reshaping Reality: How Actual Architecture Inspires Surrealistic Building Art by Kate Wagner, for 99%…
The Professor’s Dream, Charles Robert Cockerell
Illustration Now! Illustration Now! puts forward groundbreaking illustration work and focuses on leading illustrators. I’ve chosen two illustrators within the book to critique, focusing on style,…
The place we want to live in. I’m currently working through all of the Taschen Illustration Now! books and am including two illustrators featured within the…
Drawing and Painting Fantasy Landscapes and Cityscapes After looking at the role of matte artists and having reviewed Emily Churchill’s work, both essentially photography based, I…
Realism and naturalism are defined by those elements of the real world they retain…
Fantasy worlds Schlobin, The Aesthetics of Fantasy Literature and Art, writes: “The fantasy illustrator takes the pictorial conventions of realistic portrayal and then manipulates and inverts them…
I recently visited Stephen Wiltshires gallery…
If I were commissioned to design a new universe, I would be mad enough to undertake it.
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