& the winner is...

.......Sarah!

Please email me so I can send you your copy (lilly at lilly piri dot com) :)

Thank you everyone who entered, and left a nice comment. I truly wish I could send each one of you a copy!



Here are some photos from my instagram feed, too (@lillypiri)

Page from my new accordion sketchbook:

I live painted for the One Way Street Festival, in Surfers Paradise:

I'll try make a post about these, soon. I'm actually working on a very exciting project at the moment, and then in 17 days or so, I'm going to Germany for a wedding, to see family, friends, and a bit of travelling. Lots to look forward to. I  also have ideas about making a new series of still life/landscapes while I'm over there, spurred on a bit by my painting 60 days in a row last year. We'll see!

SSE-P x Lilly Piri Zine (GIVEAWAY)

The zine that sse-p published, in conjunction with the online show of my work, is now available for purchase!

Details:

$12 + shipping 

32 pages 

Full colour

Limited edition of 500

Available at SSE-P.com in the shop section.

A million thanks to YP and Ga-young for all their hard work putting this together! The quality is beautiful, and I'm so incredibly chuffed and honoured that they chose my work for a zine.


I have one signed copy to giveaway here on my blog, too! This time, the conditions for entry are:
1) Follow my blog with Bloglovin(See below*)
2) Leave a comment below

Winner will be drawn on 21.4.2013.

*Some of you may have noticed that google reader is being shut down, so if you happen to use that (like I do) and still want to follow what I'm up to, may I suggest, bloglovin, or subscribing for email updates, both options are available on the left hand side on my blog page. Or you can find me on one of the many maaaany social networks! Just search for lillypiri.

Also, If you live in MELBOURNE, I sent a few signed copies down to Sticky Institute.

MILK Japan project

 Last year, Japanese fashion label, MILK, approached me about making a pattern for clothing. They had seen my illustration for Nylon, and wanted something similar. As with the Nylon illustration, I was given plenty of creative freedom, and with the input from MILK, this is what we came up with. I had the best time working on this, and it's one of my favourites and a complete dream gig! KIRARA, SHINGO and my agent, Jacky Winter were a delight to work with. 

A photo of the illustration on my desk - you can see how big this one was!

The dresses and skirts will be available from May 2013, in MILK stores in Japan and on their website. 

The Animal in Me - Prisma Collective's First Annual Show

This is happening, now! Thank you so much to everyone who went to the opening! 

It's Prisma Collective's first annual exhibition. You can read more about our collective, here - I'm so proud to be part of it. The show was curated by our wonderful founder, Kaspian Shore.

Below are my pieces for the show. Both are available to purchase, either in person or via the subtext website, click here to purchase or simply to view the entire show (it's fantastic!)

(click to enlarge)

Portrait of the Young Artist

Lilly Piri

19.5 x 8, Acrylic on Wood Panel

$450.00 (ready to hang)

If you follow me on instagram (lillypiri) or facebook, or twitter, etc, you may have seen me working on both of these!

Grimm's Forest

Lilly Piri

4 x 4 x 6, Wood & Acrylic Sculpture

$300.00

Lilly Piri Sings the Phthalo Blues ONLINE EXHIBITION

My exhibition with SSE PROJECT is now live. There are 4 new drawings from me in the exhibition, and it will be available as a limited edition zine, soon! See it here:http://sse-p.com/ (Huge thanks to Ga-young Park & YP for making this happen!! :)

P.S. Some of the works are available to purchase, here.

Intricate Lines group show at Retrospect

Intricate Lines Group show opens 6pm, 1st February. 

Runs until 26th February, 2013.

At Retrospect Galleries, 52 Jonson St, Byron Bay.

I will have quite a few pieces in this show, and 3-4 new ones - if the new ones are not there on opening night, they will be at some point before it closes. There have been a couple of hiccups because of the floods here.* 

You can see some of the pieces available, HERE. Not all are on there yet, though. If you would  like a buyer's preview of the pieces that are not yet published, just email me: lilly ( a t ) lillypiri.com

"At Retrospect Galleries we believe that charm (and the devil!) lies in the details. Our first exhibition for 2013, Intricate Lines, showcases ten artists who will explore their personal fascination with the intimacies of fine lines and minute details. This exhibition presents a diverse range of medias and styles revealing breathtaking complexity and substance. What these works have in common, be they drawn, painted or cut, is a love of a refined line, of technical prowess, well honed skills and imagination. Artists include: Alex Louisa, Carley Cornelissen, Courtney Brims, Dave Green, Heiko, Ieo Gek Ching, Lilly Piri, Lisa Rodden, Nicola Hooper, Wendy Powitt""

From the event page on Facebook!

Hope to see you at the opening, come say hi!

*I also wanted to add that my thoughts go out to everyone impacted by the floods, especially the residents of Bundaberg, and thanks to the amazing emergency teams working round the clock.

painting the still life

Last year, I made about 60 acrylic paintings from life, in approx. 60 days, under my surname. I don't have a reason other than because I enjoy mixing things up, 'leveling up', and more than anything else: having a secret project. I tend to think of painting and drawing as solving a series of problems or games. However, I find that painting realistically is quite meditative, because once the subject is in front of me, I just have to mix and choose colours.

I was especially proud of that apple. It took me a few days to get through it, and get the transparency I wanted. I used a piece of transparent red plastic to see my values on most of these - a great tip from Lindsey Carr. For this series, I also tried out holding the tip of my loaded paintbrush/palette knife next to my subject to compare colours, and I even tried pre-mixing colours. That was a revelation, because for me, once the colours are right, the rest is just so much easier.

Behind the scenes: Nylon Illustration, from thumbnail to print.

Thought it might be fun to show you all an illustration from concept to print. I chose the NYLON illustration I did for last May's issue. So, here goes!

The brief I got from art director, Evan Campisi, was SUGAR SWEET SUNSHINE, and to go hyper girly, pastel colours, candy etc. I was so excited about this, especially because I do happen to like daisy and hello kitty! I went ahead and researched the themes, and this is the thumbnail I came up with.

It had to be revised because of the gutter in the magazine, which I wasn't aware of, but it was no problem to shift the items away from the centre. This is the thumbnail that got approved.

Here is the final refined sketch. This was approved, and I went straight to colour.

The final illustration.

Colour pencil on Arches satine paper.

47 x 20.5 cm

Here it is in print!

Photo by artist Melissa Contreras of Axelhoney.

This illustration was such a joy to work on. It pushed me to try new colours and subject matter, and go outside my comfort zone. It definitely made me think more about using brighter colours, just because I loved their intensity on the paper. You can see that in the more recent gallery work I made for Petits Travaux. I have already had one other illustration gig that was inspired by this drawing, and it was just as much fun. I'll share that one with you in a month or so. I love this kind of work, and hope 2013 will send me a few more like it!

A little photo of it in real life. I know this has a filter, but I can't find my other photos of it. Anyway, it's a lot better than scans can capture, (but that's always been my opinion about everything I draw.) I think the original art always has something special which can't be captured digitally. 

This drawing is framed and available right now through Retrospect, as part of the Intricate Lines show. If you want to make it yours, click here for purchase info.

looking forward, looking back

Thank you for all of your lovely support, comments, likes, emails, thoughts, in 2012. I'd like to wish you all a wonderful 2013!

2012 has been truly amazing for me - lots of dream illustration gigs and exhibitions.
It exceeded all of my expectations, by huge margins, and I'm truly thankful for that!


Here is a recap of my work-related highlights:
(sorry if I forgot something.)

Worked with the wonderful teams at Energy BBDO and Hornet Inc, to bring to life an amazing campaign and animation for Oxfam America. I even got to draw Aziz Ansari as a goat!

I met up with the lovely people at Retrospect Galleries early in 2012, and they began representing my work. They showed my work at art fairs all around the globe including New York, Europe and Asia, and released limited edition prints.

The Prisma Artist Collective invited me to join the club, which I feel so honoured to be part of!

Group Exhibitions:
Petits Travaux
Prisma Collective's MILK.
Risographica! 2, Melbourne
Curvy exhibition at Frankie and Swiss, in Melbourne
True Self at Melbourne GPO
Hive-Zilla in Tokyo
Art Fairs in New York, Singapore, China, Melbourne, Europe, and I think even South America.


Interviewed in
 NYLON JP blog by Esther Kim.
Little Thing magazine
Paper Runway
Paper Darts


Published in
Curvy 8
Domestic Etch
NYLON

Featured Artist in the 11/12 Toni&Guy Yen Young Australian Art Award.

Drew live at a MIMCO VIP event.


And there are even a few projects that I have in the pipeline to show later on!


First Quarter 2013 Exhibitions

Prisma's 'The Animal In Me' at Subtext Gallery in California. 15th February - 17th of March, 2013.

Retrospect's 'Fine Lines, Intricate Spaces' in Byron Bay. Early February, 2013.




Again, thank you for your support. I can't wait to see what 2013 will bring, and I hope it will be a good one for all of us!
♥

Merrrry merry happy!

It's a little late (although, in Germany, it's the second day of Christmas, so maybe not), but I hope you all had or are having a wonderful time with people you love!

Here's a little drawing from 2006-7ish!

Some nicer scans of the Oxam campaign, with Energy BBDO, as posted by Jacky Winter.