Birds in Hats.

Mallard in a Fisherman's Hat

2012-03-06T18:56:00.002Z

Bald Eagle in an FBI Cap

2012-03-02T10:06:00.000Z

Another commission for a special American friend! Lots of markets in and around London towards the end of March - details to come - and some new stockists :)

Cardinal in the Ohio State College Football Helmet

2012-02-20T11:58:00.000Z

For a friend in America, who is clearly a fan. (The cardinal is the official state bird of Ohio)

Rock Pigeon in St. Edward's Crown

2012-02-07T10:20:00.000Z

Just in time for the jubilee... (I'll be in Greenwich Market tomorrow if you want to come and say hi!)

Valentines Day cards and February Sale!

2012-02-02T16:34:00.004Z

Valentines Day is approaching and there are two new romantic Birds in Hats cards over in the Etsy shop! Next day delivery to make sure they get there in time AND 10% off everything in the store with the code HAPPYFEB10 as a special treat :) Lots of new birds on their way and I'll be knocking about Greenwich Market next Wednesday and the New Vintage market in Brixton next Saturday selling my wares, details to follow.
I was also interviewed by the lovely Aussie blog Spincushions a while back, which you can find here.

Rock Pigeon in a Bearskin

2012-01-29T12:29:00.001Z

Synthetic, obviously.

Blue Tit in a Valentines Day Top Hat

2012-01-26T09:44:00.000Z

Break the ice with a valentines day bird in a hat...

Peach-Faced Lovebirds in Matching Bobble Hats

2012-01-23T17:54:00.000Z

Getting ready for Valentines day with a couple of snug lovebirds.

Rock Pigeon in a British Police Helmet

2012-01-19T12:24:00.000Z

The second pigeon of a series of four London themed birds - Hopefully ending up on postcards in the near future. Tote bags and some special Valentines day cards are underway and there are three new designs up on the Etsy shop - Valentines day discount/treat coming soon :)

Bald Eagle in a Crystal Palace Beanie

2011-12-30T00:05:00.001Z

A Christmas commission for my manager's boyfriend - a Crystal Palace fan (their mascot being an eagle...)

Magpie in a Brown Leather Trilby

2011-12-15T19:19:00.002Z

I was asked to give a magpie a 'pikey' hat by a drunken regular and here we are. Inspiration taken from Brad Pitt's brown leather trilby in Snatch...

And thanks to everyone who came down for the Christmas market in Brixton last Saturday, it was great fun and I'll be doing plenty more in 2012 :) I'll also be expanding my stocklists majorly, so email me if you're interested and birds in hats now has it's home on facebook - here.

Christmas!!

2011-12-06T17:26:00.009Z

Four new A6 christmas cards have gone up on my Etsy shop!
If you're ordering online they'll be posted the same or next day first class and so should be with you before Christmas for now...

...However I will be at the second New Vintage market in Brixton this Saturday, on Coldharbour Lane at
The Living Bar. Last months market was brill and there'll be many new designs on sale there!

Some of which you can see here - my 2011 Christmas designs! They'll be printed on 350gsm card, A5 and with some extra glitter.
Hopefully on sale on my Etsy shop after the market if there's time - email me if you'd like to pre order any (£3.50 per card, all 4 for £12)

Happy Christmas!

Red Footed Partridge (in a tree) in Christmas Knitwear

Two Turtle Doves in Gold Christmas Cracker Hats

Three Winter Wrens in the Three King's Hats

Four Long Tailed Tits in Santa Hats

'Norwegian Blue Parrot' (Hyacinth Macaw) in a Top Hat

2011-12-02T16:31:00.005Z

Finally an update! My flat has been without internet for a long time so I'm using my work's wifi for the foreseeable future. The market in Brixton last month went brilliantly, it was lovely meeting everyone and I'm going to be back at the living bar next Saturday, on the 10th of December on Coldharbour Lane, 2 mins from Brixton underground for the Christmas market. There will be mulled wine...

I've also added some items to the etsy shop, 4 new Christmas designs and a swan, goose and a mandarin duck! I'll be posting all orders the next day, first class since it's December, and will be uploading some special Christmas card designs from this year soon!

Lastly, this was a request from a regular of mine and a monty python fan, who will have to make do with this macaw since the Norwegian blue parrot exists only in John Cleese's imagination...

Market!

2011-11-10T08:53:00.004Z

Come and say hi this Saturday at the Living Bar in Brixton, 5 mins away from Brixton underground on Coldharbour Lane :)

Common Snipe in an Orange Bowler Hat

2011-11-08T09:38:00.005Z

This fella's for Hans Jakob Helms's birthday, who is part of my Danish 'family' back in Copenhagen! The Snipe plays an important part in his latest novel which I am going to help translate at some point and the hat is made by Danish heritage hat makers called 'Andersen and Berners', whom I found out about on the German blog SOTO here.

In other exciting news, I'm going to be in Brixton this Saturday (flyer with exact details coming soon) selling prints, cards, and christmas cards - which will be going up on my Etsy shop soon after the event - and cupcakes! Come down and see me if you can :)

Rockhopper Penguin in a Shower Cap

2011-11-03T09:30:00.001Z

This one's for my deputy manager John, because Rockhoppers need to keep their hair dry when they're going fishing...
Christmas cards imminent!

Black Swan in a Fur Hat

2011-10-26T16:39:00.005+01:00

All the way from Copenhagen, this hat belongs to my amazing Danish friend Kristine, who shares her bed, wine, flat, cigarettes (pre-give-up) and pretty much anything else with me whenever I get a chance to visit. Mange tak smukke!

And in other news, I'm kicking off producing prints, starting with the pigeon in a top hat over on my Etsy shop :) email/tweet/comment me any requests/questions! And I forgot to mention last post, the lovely blog 'Heiter bis glücklich' of Die Zeit, a weekly newspaper in Germany, featured me last month here. Yet more evidence that I should move to Berlin...

Embden Goose in a Propeller Beanie

2011-10-09T12:49:00.003+01:00

It has been faaar too long since my last update! This one is a request from Steve Leinbach and he is long over due. I've moved into a new flat in New Cross and am getting an element of stability back into my life so plenty of updates to come - including some exciting new christmasy birds. Woo.

I'm off to Copenhagen for a week to see one of my favourites and will be selling prints on my Etsy shop as soon as I return. With any luck the prints may become request-able in the near future! I'm also heading up a stall at The New Vintage's Market in Brixton on the 12th of November, go and check out their blog and watch this space for more info (I may even make cupcakes...)

Tree Sparrow in an Alpaca Hat

2011-08-20T13:11:00.006+01:00

Well, I've finally finished my degree, been to Berlin, got a full time job, started jury duty and as of yet, have failed to find a new flat in London... It's been a busy few months. Thanks to everyone that has ordered cards off my Etsy shop, Christmas cards are definitely coming this year and there will be some limited run prints on sale soon due to a few email requests :) Also, the lovely 'ImagineThat' blog interviewed me last week, go check out their blog, full of illustration and good advice.

Lots of new birds in hats lined up, though all will happen much faster once I find a new flat

This hat actually exists, bought at Leeds festival in 2007 (I think) by Jack Wall...

SHOP

2011-07-05T22:06:00.005+01:00

Finally, an Etsy shop! As you can see, I've chosen 6 designs to begin with, and they can all be found on Etsy at £2.50 a card. Click on the link above to have a look. Many more birds in hats and a blog revamp to come...

African Grey Parrot in a Brown Felt Cowboy Hat

2011-06-06T23:25:00.001+01:00

Sending some birds in hats off to the printers in the next week or so, so let me know if there are any you really want to see on cards :)

Mandarin Duck in a Black Bowler Hat

2011-06-01T14:22:00.000+01:00

Tree Swallow in a Sailor's Hat

2011-05-26T09:37:00.003+01:00

Nightingale in Princess Beatrice's Royal Wedding Hat by Philip Treacy

2011-05-23T22:55:00.005+01:00

Couldn't resist attempting the most infamous hat of the year (which has just sold for £81,000 for charity, amazing..)

Mountain Bluebird in a Straw Floppy Hat

2011-05-19T14:06:00.005+01:00

So, I have finished my degree AND resisted the urge to do a mortarboard...

This means - in between the obligatory graduate job bar shifts - posts will become much more regular in the future, an Etsy shop will be set up by the end of June (so email me if there are any you would like to see immortalised in postcard form) and there may even be an exhibition in London some time in the summer! Exciting stuff.

Inspiration for the floppy hat came from over here at ASOS, and bluebirds really are that blue, though you won't find any in Britain sadly.

Chick in a Baker Boy's Cap

2011-04-19T19:32:00.004+01:00

A request for my beautiful friend Hannah Campbell's b'day that took place on Sunday. Also, lovely Norwegian blog Hjertemerket (roughly translated as 'Marked With My Heart') has blogged me and you can now, I think, follow my blog with bloglovin!

All for now :)

Gentoo Penguin in a Bucket Hat

2011-04-10T13:23:00.004+01:00

This is a present for my good friend Rob Felix, for his birthday. Pretty chilled out fellow. Also got blogged at Wayward blog a while back, check them out.
Plenty more news to come, once I've got this degree out of the way...

Oh Comely! (& Chaffinch in a Party Hat)

2011-03-17T16:45:00.010Z

The lovely people at 'Oh Comely' magazine have interviewed me for their March/April issue. Not only does it have a whole two pages of birds in hats in there, it's a brilliant magazine full of amazing art, illustrations, fashion, interviews, ideas and some really gorgeous photography that you should go and buy.

And to celebrate issue 5, here is a special celebratory bird in hat.

Carrion Crow in a Blue Russian Ushanka

2011-03-02T21:51:00.004Z

The 'military' colour. I think.

Bearded Tit in a Bobble Hat

2011-02-19T16:25:00.001Z

White-necked Jacobin Hummingbird in a Top Hat Fascinator

2011-02-07T00:57:00.004Z

Always wanted one of these little hats (thanks to Manuel Sapage for the heads up on the species!)

Red-tailed Hawk in a NFL New England Patriots Helmet

2011-01-16T20:45:00.002Z

For my brother, who's a fan. (The hawk does apparently knock about in Boston)

Long Tailed Tit in a Bergère Hat

2011-01-07T16:14:00.003Z

A pretty demure bird to start 2011...

Winter Wren in a Santa Hat

2010-12-19T13:33:00.003Z

Happy Christmas! Due to unforseen internet problems in my flat I wasn't able to put together any christmas cards. Sorry to those who requested them, I will however be making prints, cards and postcards in early 2011 and will email anyone else who's interested (send me your email to get put on the mailing list) when that happens!

Have a lovely christmas and thankyou for the emails, comments and spending your time on my little blog!

Robin in a Christmas Top Hat

2010-12-01T16:32:00.002Z

Canary in a Mexican Wrestling Mask

2010-11-24T13:34:00.005Z

à la Rey Mysterio, my flatmate keeps putting WWE on...
(more christmas ones to follow though, and christmas card packs hopefully being made in time for december, yay)

Turkey in Reindeer Antlers (with fairy lights...)

2010-11-17T14:49:00.001Z

Grey Partridge in an Elf Hat

2010-11-12T11:43:00.001Z

...in a pear tree.

Snow Bunting in a Christmas Cracker Hat

2010-11-09T12:00:00.002Z

I am definitely not one of those people that moan about Christmas adverts in September. I love it.

Waved Albatross in a Native American War Bonnet

2010-10-12T14:32:00.008+01:00

Back! Spent a lot of the summer in parts of South East Asia and Russia, which left very little time for drawing birds in hats. But I'm only doing my final year now so I'm sure there's plenty on the way..
If you happen to be knocking about Brighton there's a lovely art shop called lmnop that's stocking a few of my designs on greetings cards and is generally full of nice things to buy. Postcards should be making their way to Somerset and London within a month or so and if anyone wants me to I may start selling them online for a reasonable price. Send me an email if any particularly take your fancy.

Anyway, this was a suggestion from my flatmate George and it is the war bonnet of the 'Plains Indians', indigenous peoples from the great plains of North America.

Mute Swan in a Hennin

2010-07-25T09:56:00.003+01:00

Last one for a while... I'm going to be travelling for a couple of months. Expect cards on sale in Brighton and possibly Somerset and London some time in September. Details to come!

Canada Goose in a Straw Boater Hat

2010-07-07T00:19:00.003+01:00

Atlantic Puffin in a Sou'wester

2010-06-06T22:15:00.003+01:00

Bittern in a Pork Pie Hat

2010-05-27T20:31:00.004+01:00

Originally should have been wearing a Visor, but that would have fallen off its head...

Male Ring-Necked Common Pheasant in a Flat Cap

2010-04-20T23:57:00.004+01:00

Little Owl in a New York Yankees Baseball Cap

2010-04-15T23:48:00.002+01:00

Like 50 cent wears. Excuse the cap, I lost patience with it.

Common Kingfisher in the Imperial Crown of Austria

2010-04-09T16:25:00.002+01:00

Just because Austria had a particularly nice crown.

Ostrich in a Scooter Helmet

2010-04-09T16:21:00.002+01:00

Mallard in a Cowboy Hat

2010-03-14T14:00:00.003Z

Idea by and drawn for my lovely friend Amy, go and look at all the beautiful things on her blog.

Merlin in a Wizards Hat

2010-03-02T14:21:00.002Z

Currently having to use shit awful paper that is making my life hell/drawings bad. That's my excuse anyway.
Good news = I get to draw a mallard in a cowboy hat next.

Red-crowned Amazon Parrot in a Straw Trilby

2010-02-02T20:44:00.002Z

(For my special friend Polly Kay)

Wren in a Renaissance-inspired Tudor Flat Cap

2010-01-15T02:26:00.003Z

Grouse in a Deerstalker

2010-01-04T23:00:00.003Z

A famous one.

Magpie in St. Edward's Crown

2009-12-23T00:03:00.002Z

The official coronation crown of the English Crown Jewels...

Seagull in a Burberry Baseball Cap

2009-12-22T23:39:00.002Z

Rude birdz.

Rock Pigeon in a Silk Top Hat.

2009-12-17T21:22:00.002Z

An extra dapper one.

Emperor Penguin in a Fez

2009-12-14T13:41:00.001Z

I've been away writing essays for my degree and earning just enough money to live, but I'm back on track now doing what really matters. This is a christmas present for my dear friend Jilly and the first in a big line up of birds in hats for the christmas holidays...

Robin in a Wooly Hat

2009-11-16T18:08:00.001Z

Getting a bit seasonal

Blue Tit in a Party Hat

2009-11-14T00:43:00.000Z

This one's a chubster. A more streamlined blue tit is on my to do list. As is making this blog look half-respectable, buying a new scanner that doesn't ruin everything you put in it, finishing/starting a few proper art projects, actually doing my degree and lots of other stuff...

Hobby in a Beret

2009-10-30T11:03:00.001Z

A bit of an angry Hobby... next week some nice friendly blue tits in party hats.

Flamingo in a Fascinator

2009-10-19T13:42:00.000+01:00

Not sure whether a 'fascinator' counts as a full blown hat but I'm pretty sure a flamingo would wear one.

Vulture in a Safari Hat.

2009-10-11T03:24:00.000+01:00

Barn Owl in a Baseball Cap.

2009-10-05T21:57:00.000+01:00

So my first bird in a hat... is a Barn Owl in a baseball cap.
This blog will mainly be birds in hats that i have drawn.
And very little about my life.

I am also going to sex this blog up as soon as I work out how...