claire goldthorp

Atta Girl Poster – 24th March 2012

clairegoldthorp — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:15:04 +0000

Now that Atta Girl has become a collective I’m not solely responsible for the poster brief! I really like being set a challenge by someone else, so this one was set by Lauren “Two girls dancing”, a nice loose brief but I was worried about getting the detail in large enough as every single Atta Girl poster has only had one girl on it so far. It’s rather fitting to have more than one character on the poster now!

We also decided to have the Los Campesinos! lyrics on it (It’s you, it’s me, and there’s dancing!) as they have declared the night their official after party, hooray! The night will still be all Atta Girl tunes old and new but there might be a few more indiepop hits dotted about than normal. It’s been five months since we last got to DJ so there’s a lot of tracks of many genres to get played!

Anyway here’s to a new more colourful and populated Atta Girl poster phase:

I got pretty carried away with inking the hair. I love it when I have a good hair day (ink wise)… Here’s a close up of the “hairscape” (new terminology required!):

Dear Lara + a Steamy Stag

clairegoldthorp — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:20:26 +0000

My commission for David Lan and his new band Dear Lara.

The brief:

“A stag on a cliff top or coming out of the woods. Then if I could have mountains in the distance and use smoke coming out the stags nostrils to spell out the band name in wispy smokey writing?”

And lo a stag came out of the woods and steam rose from its nostrils to spell “Dear Lara”, just long enough for me to sketch it.

There were a couple of versions made of this sketch but this was my personal favourite.

Shrag and Tunabunny’s End of Tour Poster

clairegoldthorp — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:36:32 +0000

Another commission! And this time for a much loved, nay, favourite band of mine – SHRAG! We put them on at Atta Girl over a year ago, utterly fantastic. I first saw them at Indietracks on the outdoor stage. Amelia Fletcher was in the audience so I gave her an Atta Girl zine, seeing as the night was named after one of her songs.

Anyway, the poster, I kept redrawing the girl on the right and each time it became a little bit more like Helen from Shrag, it wasn’t intentional and it doesn’t quite look like her, but I did steal her fringe! I messed about with the colouring of this for ages too… That bow tie was pastel pink for ages, just looked too sickly, there’s something grittier about a dark red bow tie (but still firmly on the border of indiepopness). Very happy with the composition of this one, it was the first sketch idea I did and it just felt right.

If you want to attend the gig this is the event: Shrag 3rd March

Shrag:

A Christmas Commission

clairegoldthorp — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:43:58 +0000

Hoorah Tiny Tide asked me to do their Christmas album cover this year. It represents the three tracks on their album. That of:

1. Vintage Angel (Song of Christmas Past)
2. Christmas Lima Bean (Song of Alternative Christmas Present)
3. Noel on The Moon (Song of Christmas Future)

I arranged the composition to resemble a christmas tree with the Lima Bean shining out as the Christmas tree star!

Happy alternative song of Christmas Present!

Some Inspiration

clairegoldthorp — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:39:03 +0000

So I’m designing a vertical farm / hotel/ skill learning centre for 2050… And I’ve been scurrying through youtube videos as I googled “growing cress on a cotton bud” (I thought it might be interesting).

And I came across these two videos.

I liked the drama of GARDEN CRESS hehe

C J Lim

clairegoldthorp — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:46:01 +0000

Well I’ve been thoroughly absorbed in studying my MArch and trying to earn enough pennies to survive. So fun and illustration have been lacking recently! Well, not fun as such. I went to this awesome mind opening lecture held at uni the other evening.

C J Lim presented work from his three lives. That of the real world, masterplans and architecutral commissions in his practice Studio 8. His speculative dream like work also within practice but a totally freeing way of expressing, and that of his love of food all wrapped up in the above!

His work “London in two and half dimensions” was wildly speculative absolutely lacking in practical function. But that was what I loved about it, it was the narrative and the method of expressing this. The two and half dimensions is best described by visualising a 2d architectural drawing, then popping up elements and messing with scale and focussing on the pure elements that make up the narrative.

I wanna make stuff like this! But without all the hours of cutting out the tiny tiny elements with blades and tweezers.

Sky Transport

Dream Isle

CJ Lim

Atta Girl – “Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun”

clairegoldthorp — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:57:49 +0000

The next Atta Girl clubnight is on halloween Saturday 29th October.

So for this poster I went for a Day of The Dead theme as we were playing around with making song titles spookier! Replacing Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper with Ghouls just felt like the perfect description for a halloween Atta Girl!

Bedside Shelves – Project

clairegoldthorp — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:14:13 +0000

For the last ten years or so I’ve been moving house with two of these heavy shelf units. Chucked out by my Grandma they’ve proved themselves to be very handy pieces of furniture… Albeit covered in flakey varnish from the 70s and lots of mug stains and water damage to the back of one (the screws holding the back panel on were sehr rusty).

So after MUCH sanding and cleaning and removal of back panel and three coats of “Moonlight White” satin quick dry paint…

I left the top edge bare as I didn’t want to completely erase the unit’s identity!

I also made a vinyl matt to fit on the top layer to stop my mug circle habit:

Furniture fixed!

Plato’s Summer Stars

clairegoldthorp — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:39:28 +0000

The lovely Mark Zonda from Italian band Tiny Tide contacted me recently to commission an album cover for his recent free album (ahead of his main album release). I really enjoyed drawing this! It was quite a tricky image to try and put to pen.

He wanted Puro Instinct, smoking bananas like they were cigars under a starry sky! I did my best:

Tiny Tide’s free summer album can be downloaded here.

If you’re after a new album cover and have some kind of hallucinatory image in mind (or a feet firmly on the ground image) feel free to contact me (clairegoldthorp [at]gmail [dot]com) for an exceedingly reasonable quote x

Project – Sewing table

clairegoldthorp — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:01:05 +0000

I’ve had this old sewing machine table that I’ve been using as a computer desk for ages (it’s been a squeeze!). Well no more! I shall be turning it back into a sewing machine table and getting a lovely new desk (with a light box insert)!

So I’ve been contemplating sanding it down and painting it when I stumbled upon this website:

Totally going to cover it in oil cloth! Like stretching a canvas over the top, it’ll stop my sewing machine scratching the surface and will also be much easier to clean. Genius.

Plus John Lewis do oil cloth for half the price that Cath Kidston does it.

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