website reconstruction

Hey there!

If you were popping over to www.felicitygardner.com and found yourself here it's because I am currently working on a spanking new webpage. So for now have a scroll through my blog and hopefully felicitygardner.com will be up and running again soon :) If you like what you see feel free to contact me at felicitygardner@gmail.com

Migration Myths

So I was asked to be part of Spoonful Zine issue 6 and the brief was to create an illustration of a hummingbird. Not knowing all that much about humming birds I did a little research and found a really funny myth about their migration patterns. For some reason people had trouble believing these tiny birds could migrate unassisted and therefore came up with the theory that they hitchhiked a ride on the backs of geese. This is completely untrue but the idea made me laugh so I tried to create a kind of retro travel poster for hummingbirds. Hope you like it!! You can check out the zine at just by clicking on the neat little round button below :)

woodland creatures are so hot right now.

Hello again!

Recently I went to a craft market in Sydney and I noticed that almost every stall was selling items that had either owls, foxes, rabbits or deers/ stags on them. It made me laugh, but with the intensions of selling my work at markets soon I thought I should get in on the woodland creature action as they were selling like hot cakes! So I am selling out in my own quirky way I guess. Ah well...

Bath Time!

Another illustration for the spoilt series, inspired by dog spas. I hope you get a giggle out of it!

I think this illustration also works really well for this weeks theme on illustration friday which is Fluid :)

Monster and Me

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The past few days I have been working on a little story I have made up about a girl and her monster. Here are one of the first finished illustrations. Enjoy!

Gangs of Hyde Park

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So a few years back while I was in London I went for a walk in Hyde Park. For some strange reason a gang of squirrels and pigeons chased me out of the park. Ever since then I have wanted to illustrate this image and I have finally given myself to do this. I hope you enjoy it!

wedding invites

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So after a holiday in fiji and coming down with a horrid case of swine flu, I am up and drawing again! Currently I am working on another album cover but i also just finished making up some wedding invited today that I am very happy with. I cant wait to see them printed, here is just a little sample of the front of the invite and the RSVP card. Its for a laid back backyard wedding where they will be serving pizza and gelato for the guests meal. Hope you like it!

threadless entry

So the last illustration I did for the spoilt series titled batdog got a lot of good attention on facebook with friends encouraging me to enter it into becoming a tee on www.threadless.com So I did! You can see my design when you go to this link: http://www.threadless.com/submission/357913/batdog/from,flick.gardner

Please vote for me, and vote high! Give me some 5's! The $2000 spending could go so far in helping me self promote my work. And it would be so cool to have my illustration on a shirt

hello world,

So I have a new addition to the spoilt series... Batdog! A friend of mine recently brought a bulldog puppy and i am obsessed with how adorable her droopy face is. In my search for funny ways people spoil their pets I have found so many hilarious pictures of pets dressed up as movie characters, so thats where the batman influence comes from. I hope you all like it. There are more to come from this series. I have a few more ideas bubbling in my head :)

monster pencil

A few weeks back i had a bad case of too many thoughts and too little sleep. I wrote a story about a monster at around 3am and couldn't stop thinking about how I would illustrate it. This image was the first to come to me and I am pretty happy with the first sketch. I am in no way a writer, i just wanted to jot down some words to give my illustrations some background. I can see how i would like this to work in colour and I hope I can recreate whats in my head because it's such a fun image. Hopefully this will be a piece to ad to the new portfolio I hope to have by the end of the year

the giant wombat

I drew a rough sketch of this image 3/4 years ago and today I finally committed myself to redraw it in pastel. It was great to play with pastels again, even though I made my desk and hands all dirty

even more spoilt!

Ok this picture above was created by a very clever year 2 student. My partner is a primary school teacher and one of his students loves to draw. He told her that he has a friend that also loves to draw. She asked if she could see some of my work, so I gave her a copy of the last spoilt illustration I did and this is what she sent back to me. Isn't it amazing! She didn't trace a thing and added cool little bits like a crown and hair clips. So cute, I love kids art.

So this is another spoilt pet to ad to the series I have been working on. This has been a fun little self driven project, I'm really enjoying google searching crazy things people do for their pets. Anyway there is more to come! stay tuned :)

Spoilt

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So the new word is spoilt on miro roundup and this is what I have come up with. Having been looking up dogs online this week in anticipation to hopefully buying my own dog next year, I couldn't help myself but draw a spoilt pooch. I had fun with this trying to get that snooty expression! I think I might try and do a series of spoilt dogs and cats. Anyway hope you like it! Check out the rest of the submissions on www.miroroundup.blogspot.com

Mathieu Chedid

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so this is my new submission for the miro roundup. this weeks theme is melody. I had some pretty out there ideas originally, but being sick with the flu this week I thought i deserve to treat myself with a fun little portrait. Playing with gouache again, this is a portrait of my favourite french rock star Mathieu Chedid. Check out everyones submissions at www.miroroundup.blogspot.com

hope you like it!

Today the May issue of Sydney's Child came out and I am in it! The article was about hyphenated names and the day to day issues that come with them. It was a great article and I really enjoyed the whole process of illustrating for Copeland Publishing. Finger's crossed more work comes my way!

Hello world,

So today I attemppted something I never thought I would. Willingly using gouache. I hated gouache all through school and never seemed to get the hang of it. I hated the medium so much I had nightmares about it. But today my relationship with gouache is changing and I had a lot of fun experimenting and coming up with this little illustration. I recently went to see the dreams come true exhibition in melbourne and the works were so amazing and inspiring to see. A lot of my favourite pieces were created in gouache and so thats how I ended up here. I hope you all like it, cant wait to make another!