Jessica Wainwright

15 October 2012

As annoying as it is to find Christmas stuff in shops before Halloween, if you're looking for a unique, personal and lovely gift for someone for the festive period, please check out the sewing side of my creative abilities here.

springjingle@rocketmail.com // www.springjinglecrafts.blogspot.com

06 August 2012

Last weekend I took a trip to Bristol and whilst there, visited the museum with my sketch book to draw some taxidermy. It feels like I hardly every draw since leaving uni so it was lovely to just sit in the quiet and put pencil to paper. These are some of my favourites:

Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris ocellata) // Swinhoe's Pheasent (Lophura swinhoii) // American Darter (Anhinga anhinga)

Domestic Fowl (Gallus gallus) // Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus)

Indian Peacock (Pavo cristatus)

11 May 2012

I finished the wall mural!

It was actually finished about a month ago, but I'm not too confident about mixing indoor lighting with photography so it took me ages getting round to taking photos. Apologies to anyone who may have been sitting on the edge of their seats waiting to see the finished product, but here it is!

Right wall (please excuse my cheeky little nephew!)

Back wall

Left wall

Mr. Eel is definitely my favourite

Although I didn't see the school children's reactions, my nephew, Jack's, pointing and 'oooh'ing and fish impressions were good enough for me!

I've really enjoyed painting on such a big scale and, hopefully, I'll get the chance to do it again one day. As I completed more and more of the mural I became a lot more confident with size, spacing and the actual painting of each character. I'm much happier with the left wall and did a lot more free hand drawing rather than using the projector as I had done on the right wall and I can definitely see the progression and improvement from when I first started back in October.

Anyway, let me know what you think!

01 April 2012

It's been a long time since I posted any photos of the wall mural I've been doing for my old primary school. Progress has been really slow as I could only sneak a few hours here and there, then I was working and now I'm not so today, I've spent a good solid 5 hours painting.

I'm hoping it will be finished before the Easter Holidays are over. All that's left is to find something to fill one last void and to paint detail on the right hand wall and on the jellyfish.

Anyway, I will stop babbling, here are some photos:

06 January 2012

Where on earth did 2011 go!? I think I've contracted the New Year blues, where gift giving, booze and merriment have been swapped for staying in and being bored because all outside has to offer is bear wind and fine rain and cold legs.

I've had a grand Christmas and received some wonderful presents including The Making of Fantastic Mr Fox, My Future Listography and an amazing surprise from my favourite Welsh butty - a book made up of photos from our Turkish adventure last summer including a day by day story of what we got up to! I also received a projector, One Flew Over the Cuckoos' Nest, Up, Harry Potter, the necessary Crimbo pjamas and slipper socks and of course my Second Hand Secret Santa surprise, which turned out to be a Jane Shilton handbag in a beautiful shade of grey!

I wear grey all the time, I think it's much nicer than boring old black so this bag is a perfect addition to my wardrobe! Thank you very much Lisa from Mathilde Heart Manech, it hasn't been off my shoulder since Boxing Day!

Dan and I spent New Years down in Cornwall and I had my first countdown to the New Year outside of the North West of England! It was an awesome night spent in Plymouth which started off in View 2 with an awesome band and tasty cocktails.

We shouldn't have left there because the rest of the night looked pretty much like this:

and I've had Rhianna's, We Found Love in a Hopeless Place in my head ever since, which is terrible news as I cannot stand the woman, but at 12:01am on 1st January after you've been cut short shouting Auld Land Syne at the top of your voice you just don't care what you're dancing (or singing along) to!