News – Page 22 – Daisy Hirst

Imminent Pip

As threatened, I have made a tiny magazine for kids: I have called it Pip and demanded that many copies be delivered to my house. The plan then is to leave little heaps of it in libraries etc and hope that some actual children end up reading it. I have learnt many things, such as that collage is not a sensible medium for representing trees whose apples are 2mm in diameter.

I’ve wanted to make a little magazine for ages as they seem to be either too branded and by-numbers, or too expensive (Anorak, Okido, etc). I particularly wanted to do it now as something more bitty and throwaway after my three-month attempt to achieve consistency in drawing Sizo’s head.

If you have Pip and you are SURE you want the puzzle answers, here are the puzzle answers.

Postcards for Japan – exhibition

Some people from my MA course (including ME), and also some Famous Children’s Illustrators, are having an exhibition of original postcard-sized art in Cambridge the week after next (5th-11th ofSeptember). The postcards will be sold to raise money for Teachers for Japan, a charity set up by teachers after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami to help children in Miyagi prefecture stay in school, and to rebuild damaged schools.

So if you are in or near Cambridge and innerested, go see. If innerested but in or near impossibly elsewhere, go see some of the postcards on the exhibition site. It’s all anonymous but maybe you can recognise my two. This most excellent poster is by Jemima Sharpe who is in my class – how good are those mice?

Guinea pigs

I am drawing, honestly, only sometimes I am drawing with cake. These were for a lovely wedding with a ‘bring cake’ arrangement – an excellent scheme which produced a great variety and quantity of cake. How many times can I use the word ‘cake’ in this paragraph? Cake. Would you believe there is NO food colouring in the icing? Raspberry juice just is that pink. Cake.

Monster print

Here is some fabric screen printing my brother and me did the other Wednesday, we also did t-shirts for him but he has taken them away and worn them so here is just mine and a bag made of pillow case. It was veryfun so now I am getting the stuff to do paper screen printing. I am also thinking of inventing a tiny free magazine (I don’t mean hand-printing it), but if I only get to do it once is it still a magazine?

Sizo and the wardrobe

Velour is hard to sew yessir, and exactly-right-width stripes are hard to find. Incidentally, the charity shop on the square in Bromyard is an excellent place to buy babygros for 25p, though I have already taken the stripiest.