This Christmas

commissioned pieces





A gift for a friend. Entirely handmade by me :)

Wedding Portrait

Here is a portrait I painted as a wedding gift for my friends Alicia and Richard. It's 22"x30" , acrylic ink on watercolour paper.





Please contact me if you are interested in having a portrait done :)

Bri and Luk: A Puppet Play by the Future Centre Trust

Here are the mosquito and mongoose puppets on stage!
The puppet play is about climate change and is based on original books created by Nicole at the Future Centre Trust. These pictures are from the book and puppet show launch. I guess now I can call myself a puppeteer! Along with Nicole, Anthony, Davina and Vicky. We had a great time and so did the children!

Carmichael Prize Exhibition

Hi! Please come out and vote for my work at the Carmichael Prize Exhibition which will be up at the Bridgetown Gallery. The opening reception is this Sunday, December 12th from 7pm-9pm. Voting will continue until December 21st and the regular gallery hours are Tuesday-Friday from 10am-4pm.
Bridgetown Gallery,
James Fort Building,
Hincks Street,
Bridgetown,
Barbados

Here are the pieces I submitted to the exhibition! :)

Ink Plots Exhibition

In November, I travelled to New York to see my book, 'Stigmus Wallabee and the Big Bully', in the 'Ink Plots : The Tradition of the Graphic Novel' Exhibition at the School of Visual Arts Gallery. I was really excited to see my work exhibited! and also glad to visit NYC again!:D After the exhibition, they put the books in the SVA library, and I'm really happy people will get to read my book! ^^
You can see more about my book in my March 2010 blog post-->

New Puppets- Mongoose and Mosquito

I have a lot of updating to do with not just this blog, but my etsy store! ...but dont worry, I'm working on it! :P






I'm really proud of these puppets, because I decided to challenge myself by sewing and stuffing them, which is a method I'd never really used before with puppets I've made in the past. I'm happy with how they turned out! :)
The puppets were made for the Future Centre Trust's puppet show about climate change.

Bits and Pieces

Barbados- Bridgetown Market 2010

So I have been home in Barbados since June.I recently had a stall at Bridgetown Market, a local craft market held every year at Crop Over time. Here are some pictures of the work I did. I made some tote bags and painted them, stencilled some t-shirts and did a few portraits.

This is another version of Guava that I painted as a gift for someone.

Gooseberry

Bajan Cherry...almost finished

Guava

This is another painting in the series of illustrations I'm doing of local Barbadian fruit trees and fantasy. Here is a Black Bird Lady eating a guava.

Monkey King

I'm revisiting a concept I painted in the past. I think I'll do a couple more paintings with this theme, Fruits and Fantasy.

Rain

Finished painting.

Pedals and Prints Exhibition

This print will be a part of the Pedals and Prints exhibition at Crewest Gallery in California. I am very excited about it because it's always great to get work out there for others to view. I had a lot of fun experimenting with stencils. This piece is called 'Predator' and it was created using stencils and acrylic paint on paper, 8.5"x12". The exhibition is up until April 25th.
You can find out more at http://tworabbitsstudios.com/ . You can also purchase this print at http://www.crewest.com/shop/prints_posters/prints_posters.html#

Work in Progress

A painting I'm working on.I decided to use oils, but I havent painted with oils in a really long time. So I'm just having fun with it.

Ms.Gangsta walking her dog. lol!

Just messing around in photoshop with a random sketch I did.

Some more pages of the book.

New Book Project

Here is my new graphic novel, finally finished! It is a story idea I had for a long time. I worked on it for a class in school, and I decided to rework it.I had a lot of fun putting it together into book form. I think I will make a few more copies, but hopefully I can pay to get some nice prints made.

"Bubbles 2" For Sale

Acrylic paint on 5"x7" and 1/2" thick wood.
$35 including shipping. You can purchase by clicking the button below, or by going to my etsy store www.crward.etsy.com

For Sale

For Sale

This is a small coin purse, hand sewn using cotton fabric. For sale at my etsy store.

For sale

A new painting for sale at my etsy store www.crward.etsy.com . As well as a custom toy which I painted using acrylics.