Rebecca Cluett and Kirsty Ward for Amelia's Magazine

Next up in Amelia's Magazine went two of my fashion illustrations; one for an interview with designer Kirsty Ward previewing her London Fashion Week S/S 2012 collection - I stopped by Kirsty Ward's space during London Fashion Week last September to see close up the collection in question and not only is she lovely but also her jewellery is delicious - and then another illustration for an interview with fashion designer Rebecca Cluett. I really enjoyed doing the illustration for Rebecca Cluett from a cheeky old pamphlet I found at a vintage stall - hilarious how what is considered sexy changes....

© 2011 Kirsty Ward S/S 2012 by Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly The Eggs

© 2011 Rebecca Cluett tops by Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly The Eggs

Illustration for First People's Festival, Montreal 2011, in Amelia's Magazine

This is another completely hand drawn illustration I did for a review in Amelia's Magazine of the First People's Festival, part of Montreal Festimania. The images of these amazing dancers with their complex, colourful costumes and accessories were very inspiring. I really wanted to convey the dance movement in this - I am not sure I did. You can read Amelia's review of the Festival here.

© 2011 'Mohawk Dancer' by Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly The Eggs

Francois and The Atlas Mountains for Amelia's Magazine

I have been extremely bad at blogging in the last few months... So here I am adding some illustrations I did whithin this period and pledge in 2012 to become a better blogger... Last September I did an illustration of Francois and The Atlas Mountains, who supported King Creosote and Jon Hopkins during a gig in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, for a review of the evening in Amelia's Magazine - I was actually at the ticket desk doing my part time job that evening and it was a lovely surpirse to see Amelia! I do not often do pencil drawings, though I love it, and here I think the contrast between the pencil and the collage is creating a nice effect. You can read Amelia's review of the gig here.

© 2011 'Francois and The Atlas Mountains' by Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly The Eggs

The Underground Movement

This is a really cool project I saw and have wanted to share for sometime now! It was devised and executed by Victor Milton van Doorn and Alina Dheere Babaletsos (website on www.alinababa.com coming soon!), who have a performance background. This is what Alina said about the experiment: "We had many ideas for the tube but we 'sticked' to the stickers idea as we had time restrictions and we were kind of short of people the days when Vic was in London. Anyway, we thought of things to say and then used the same typeface as the official ones you see on the tube, and then we printed them . We then made a plan to stick them on the PicadillyLline, we were just the two of us, so we wanted to focus on one line".
I really like work that plays with words and displacing things into unexpected contexts - or slightly and humorously altering what is familiar and ignored - , so I think this is a really clever, fun experiment and I hope it will be taken further!

All images @ Victor Milton van Doorn and Alina Dheere Babaletsos

'Half Japanese' and 'The Lovely Eggs' illustrated review

I am posting this sooooo late, but here is some illustrations for an illustrated review I did for Amelia's Magazine of a gig where the band 'Half Japanese' were playing supported by 'Let's Wrestle' and 'The Lovely Eggs'. Amelia Gregory from Amelia's Magazine thought it was quite fitting for an illustrator with 'Slowly the Eggs' as their aka name to do the review which was in very good humour I thought...I also think the idea of illustrated reviews of gigs is a very interesting one! You can read the review here.




'The Lovely Eggs' @2011 Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly The Eggs

'The Lovely Eggs' @2011 Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly The Eggs

'Cherry P-eye' @2011 Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly The Eggs

'Fire in her Eyes' @2011 Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly The Eggs

'Red Dress' @2011 Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly The Eggs

At The New Gallery Jumble Tomorrow!

COME ALONG TO THE NEW GALLERY JUMBLE!

Vintage Weekend Mad Hatting

So there was the Vintage Weekend at the Southbank Centre last weekend and I was there too with a stall selling both Plastic Seconds and Slowly the Eggs cards - which am happy to say were very popular! By now it must be obvious I loooooooooooooove hats and headpieces and there was a LOT of that during the weekend, but unfortunately because of my selling duties I could not go around snapping them all.....:-( Here is a photo of a girl with a great 2 headed ducklings headpiece and two photos of Miss Ballooniverse's creations! - I was so happy to meet her accidentally on the last day, she is a unique balloon artist and she seems amazing! Not much eye candy, but better than nothing!

The girl with the best headpiece ever!

Miss Ballooniverse with one of her creations!

Me with a Miss Ballooniverse headpiece she gifted to me