Laura Carlin

Laura lives and works in London. She graduated from Buckinghamshire University and the Royal College of Art, where she received a Masters and won the Quentin Blake Award. 

During her MA she was also awarded the Uniqlo Fashion Illustration Award, which enabled her to travel to Shanghai and Tokyo. 

Laura currently works in an advisory role with the development of Quentin Blake's House of Illustration. She is also a regular visiting lecturer at the University for the Creative Arts at Maidstone

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/illustration-laura-carlin-updates

http://www.heartagency.com/artist/LauraCarlin/gallery/1

http://www.thenewcraftsmen.com/maker/laura-carlin/ Ceramics

Here, there’s a multitude of textures and a juxtaposition between the text in size and colour. The theme of red and blue make it bold and engaging.

The book has good contrast of full and simple pages. It contains multimedia, in photos and 3d objects (as from the matchbox house above).

'Taking the reader on an extraordinary visual journey through her imaginative world, award-winning illustrator, Laura Carlin, inspires children to look, draw and make – first from life, and then from the imagination through sharing her own personal thought-processes and drawing techniques.'

'Using the narrative of a day – from getting up in the morning, to going to bed at night – Laura shows children how she records every day things and events on paper, and then improves them through her wild and witty imagination – helping children form a visual manifesto of their own world, and enthusing them to find enjoyment and entertainment in drawing and creating with the most everyday objects. '

The typography of the shops are attractive as they’re not graphical and streamlined but conveys the different fonts used on high street signs.

£1,000+ !!!! wowzers.

This connects me to my Antwerpian animals. 

A use of colouring pencils creates fur and hair.

my antwerpian animals that echo Lauras tile mural 

The darker tones in this give an impression of fading light or shaded areas from the tall buildings. The detail in bricks and features ties in with the texture of the paint. We are lead from the left to right through the pale path, seeing the small people and cars and rolling their journey out to the bottom right.

Really like this composition and use of textures from the pencil.