Its's a jungle in here!

I am very busy at the moment between my online shop, selling Christening gifts and baby gifts - GIFTS4BABY.ie and creating new artwork for licensing. Which is harder between the two? I just don't know, what I do know that it is a lot of work to keep up both. Creating new art work for Art licensing is becoming a bigger part of my creative life, I am really enjoying it as I have been pushed into a creative flurry! I have to say, I probably needed it. My new agent sends art samples to show whats hot creatively at the moment. These images are great to have, always good to analyse what is selling and what is not. My latest new artwork for licensing are three animals I have never illustrated before - panda, fox and moose. O created them in Photoshop with a watercolour background. My moose artork is still unfinished and taken me a week to get to this stage. A very hard image to illustrate. Fox Artwork - Art For License Mr Fox artwork above was the quickest image to compl...

Arctic Animal Illustrations Arctic Animal Illustrations by Irish children's illustrator Carla Daly I have been an a creative bender recently. Animals, animals and more animals. I have two possible outlets for my new art to license, both based in the United States Of America. As well as creating new map images, I am also creating a range of animal drawings.  The brief on these is very simple images and to use pastel colours. This takes a lot out of me as my images are usually very detailed with strong colours. When I started on the animal series I found it quite hard work but as I got into creating them, I really, really enjoyed it. These arctic animal illustrations had to be the most difficult, I really had to pare back on the use of colour.  I am hoping to add these to my personalised baby gifts category at Gifts4Baby.ie.   I want to create 3 more in the series, completing 6 arctic animals. I hope I can find 6 white arctic animals t...

 My art display at The Licensing Expo, Las Vegas, 2012 My sister was visiting Las Vegas the same time as my agent, Alicia Dauber of Licensing Liaison, was showing my work at The Licensing Show.  My sister Dr Kelly pointing to my artwork!

I am delighted to announce I have a new licensing agent and my work will be shown at Surtex in May and the Licensing Show in June. Her name is Alicia Dauber and her agency is Licensing Liaison. So, if you are interested in licensing my work don't hesitate to contact her.