New Christmas Cards & a Festive Website Offer!

'Ello 'ello 'ello!

So that time of year has zipped on round again! My new Christmas cards have arrived which I'm rather excited about, six British Wildlife designs based on past pencil drawings and printed on lovely glossy A6 cards. The lovely Rob at Knight Graphics has once again done a sterling job with the printing!

6 Wildlife Designs:
Badger, Otter, Hare, Fox, Barn Owl and Hedgehog

The reverse of each card features an enlarged, greyscaled version of the main design on the front. Supplied with red envelopes, these cards come in mixed packs of 6, 12 and 18 with 1, 2 and 3 of each design in a pack respectively. Each pack is cellophane wrapped and gift-tied.

My A5 Barn Owl and Sled Dog designs from last year are also still available to buy from my website in either a mixed pack of 6 or 6 of the same design.

SPECIAL FESTIVE OFFER!

Spend more than £12 on my website***, whether that be Meg's Mugs, Meg's Mirrors, cards, originals or prints and receive a free pack of pin badges!  These little treats come in two sets, Woodland or Aquatic Animals - perfect little stocking fillers!

***(Offer exclusive of postage costs)

Hurry though, this treat is only for those organised folk who can get their orders in before December! Offer finishes midnight November 30th :)

Have a browse on my online shop :) http://megghyll.co.uk/shop.html

Happy shopping!

Meg x

An Atlantic Puffin Study...so far

I'm just about to get back on with my latest wildlife portrait, "An Atlantic Puffin Study". I was lucky enough to spend two months working as a volunteer on Skomer Island (Wales) in 2011. I got to spend plenty of time getting to learn the quirky ways of the hugely charismatic Puffin. Fantastic little birds that spend most of their lives at sea and come to our islands only to breed and raise their Pufflings I didn't want to waste such an amazing opportunity to photograph these birds that are so unafraid of humans they will happily pose for the many tourists that flock to the island in the breeding season.


Here are a few pics of the drawing's progress so far...

We have an eye! The focal point of the drawing, I always like to have eyes done first :)

A filled in bill, normally very bright & colourful so intriguing to see how see how it would turn out in monochrome

Almost done!

Next up, a feeding pose with a beak full of tasty sandeels!

Addition of a preening pose, like the bird is wiping a tear from it's eye!

A peeking from burrow snapshot & last but not least, where the drawing is currently at, halfway through a takeoff pose!

More progress pics to follow soon when I crack on with the next stages of my Puffin Study, I hope you like it so far :)