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...

Art Licensing - Animals & Sprinkles Art Licensing - Animals & Sprinkles by Carla Daly Creating animal art for kids is a big passion of mine. As you will see at my online shop selling gifts for babies - Gifts4Baby.ie . I have made a business out of animals! My big move recently is to start licensing art to the United States Of America, though I am not limiting myself there! The United States is obviously the biggest market. Giraffe, Lion, Zebra, Crocodile are a few of the animal images I have created. Trying not to set them in a traditional jungle background, I decided to add glasses and sprinkles to the images.  Licensing is a very interesting area to work in. I am trying to get my images more neutral. Maybe that's not the correct work but more mass appeal.  Kids images seem to have less colour in them and neutral colours are the fashion. My art is all about colour so not sure how this will work out!

Los Angeles Wall Art By Carla Daly I have recently completed two illustrations for Stupell industries. My brief was to create an image that reflects the LA lifestyle. It was a very specific brief as the client Home Goods, USA have a clear idea of what their customers want. These two images will be available in the Los Angeles, Home Goods stores.  Los Angeles Wall Art By Carla Daly I am really keen to license my art and have been working hard on creating new images. The United States is my focus as it is a massive outlet for my work. I have licensed five image to Home Goods and another 12 to Marmont Hill for their online shop. My two Los Angeles wall art prints have been to most interesting to complete. A slight step away from all my animal wall art, it got me think slightly differently about my artwork. I really enjoyed creating them and would love more work like this to come my way.  Los Angeles Wall Art Framed By Carla Daly You can see more of ...

Home Goods - Map Art Home Goods USA has licensed three of my map art. I had already illustrated California and New York and sell them as illustrated map wall prints online at Gifts4Baby.ie . They want a simpler version of these maps, in a more subdued colour range. After many weeks of work the art was completed and samples made. Stupell  industries created the samples. After another few weeks of waiting, I got the news, three maps images were selected. California to sell in Home Goods Californian shops. Texas and New York to sell in the Home Goods outlets in these states. The images were created on white and have been backed with a blue background and then framed in white. I really love them!  Above is a closer look at California, below is my original map of California, available from Gifts4Baby.ie. 

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...

Nursery Art Nursery Art illustrated by Irish artist Carla Daly New nursery art soon to available from Gifts4Baby.ie I have been work hard on new images, hopefully to be sold as art licensing as nursery art prints. The will also be available as personalised nursery art from my online shop Gifts4Baby.ie These images have really been created to art license in the States. My new agent Out Of The Blue art licensing agent is pushing me to create more art. I am really enjoying it and a push is what I needed. They hope to sell them into the nursery art print market in the United States. It took me quite a while to get into the swing of creating such simple line work, the more and more I got into it the more I am enjoying illustrating them. I have started with lion, elephant, zebra, giraffe and monkey and will add more jungle animals to this range. I also want to do farm animals and winter animals etc. All these jungle animals will be available in my Nursery Art categ...

Illustrated Kids World Map Illustrated Kids World Map - by children's artist Carla Daly. Exciting news this week as I am signing with a new art licensing agent in the United States. Out Of The Blue art licensing will be representing my work for the next few years.  I am very excited about it as art licensing is an area I am eager to get into.  I have spent the week scanning in all my artwork and sending it to them. I am also busy creating new images, like this Illustrated Kids World Map. I am using less colour, Less detail and more pastel colours, I know unusual for me! I want a different take on my artwork and want to open as many doors as possible for my work. You can browse more of my illustrated kids maps online at Gifts4Baby.ie , I have another very popular illustrated kids world map for sale, see image below. Two quite different maps but both great fun for kids. The above image includes as many countries of the world I could fit i...