Chantal Mayhew

Brighton Toy and Model Museum

2012-01-21T21:37:00.001Z

Today we went to Brighton's Toy and Model Museum found beneath the railway station. Had a lovely time lots of amazing miniatures! Especially the zoo and circus displays, and of course really enjoyed watching the trains running around and around!

1 Minute Creature!

2012-01-21T21:21:00.002Z

I was just time wasting on Twitter when I stumbled on Creaturemag's 1 Minute Creatures and thought I would give it ago myself. Meet Doug, my creation!

Discover

2012-01-21T00:03:00.002Z

My entry for the Drink in Brighton Competition. The brief was to make an image with the theme of "Discover."

Below some experiments.

The Bloody Chamber

2012-01-20T23:39:00.000Z

These illustrations were originally made in response to The House of Illustration and The Folio Society Competition to illustrate The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter. These four images have been made in response to the title story - The Bloody Chamber.

Grow Your Own

2012-01-20T15:38:00.000Z

Thought I would join in the Grow Your Own Club in the Sauce household. Decided to attempt to grow some basil and some sweet peppers. Quite liked the green and navy packaging for the propagator.

Robot Invasion!

2012-01-12T16:50:00.001Z

Today we went on a little trip to Hove Museum and Art Gallery, I really loved it!

They are currently showing Robot Invasion! which runs until the 21st February 2012. A collection of robots and work from artist Chris McEwan. So if you like robots and ray guns check it out!

The permanent collections on display upstairs were very interesting too, especially the Wizard's Attic, full of toys and beautiful displays. (Unfortunately a bit too dark to photograph, but here is a few images anyway. One of the animals going two by two into the Ark and a teeny weeny door in the wall containing some even more teeny weenier cows)

Their displays on film makers and the development of projection equipment was very good too. I enjoyed playing with the zeotropes and looking at the amazing collection of weird and wonderful slides.

Ho Ho Ho, a week to go...

2011-12-18T21:31:00.001Z

Spit

2011-12-16T20:43:00.001Z

Anorak Happy Lunch

2011-12-16T00:57:00.000Z

Here is my entry for Anorak Magazine's competition Happy Lunch.

I made several alternatives and experiments.

The entries can be seen here on Anorak's Flickr.

A little something I am working on...

2011-12-10T13:37:00.000Z

The Photocopy Club

2011-12-08T18:31:00.000Z

Went along to The Photocopy Club exhibition last night at Create. Super images galore.

Here is a little video they made of the launch.

A Photo Book Show

2011-12-04T23:18:00.008Z

A few of my favourite books from A Photo Book Show at Workflow Studios.

Same but Different by Megan Turner-Jones

The Liminal Points Project by Nick Rochowski

Notes On Blankness by Lawrence Daley

Fragrance -Petit- by Aya Takada

Shadow Dial Study vi/v by Joan Alexander

Full Spectrum Dominance by Simon Norfolk

Trapped

2011-12-04T21:10:00.003Z

One Bloody Long Blog Post

2011-11-26T00:54:00.005Z

Last weekend was a busy one, here is the low down. On Friday the Sauce Collective & Co. went to have a little look-see at the preview of Brighton Photo Fringe.

My favourites were by Alexander Nicolas Gehring who is featured above.

Then on Saturday, Mr T and myself went for a drive along the coast. We stopped off at Saltdean, where we stumbled on a food and drink market at the Saltdean Lido. We tried the Lamb and the Vegetable Samosas - they were epically good!

The Lido has really interesting architecture and definitely should be restored to its former glory, not be left to decay or as the leaseholder proposed redeveloped into flats. It seems very wrong, not to preserve the past. I have found out that there was recently a petition to save it and currently its future is being debated. There was an article published by the Argus about the petition, "Petition demands action over Saltdean Lido." Hopefully it will once again be restored to look like this!

After the food fair, we travelled further along the coast to Seaford.

Then went to Birling Gap, where there were quite a few surfers.

Then on Sunday Kat, Mr T and myself went on a jolly to London to Handmade and Bound. We brought and spent way too much.

A few of my purchases were Tight Fit Zine, Matthew Hay's This is so Deep, Ellen Mclean's 24 Hours, Andrea Kearney's Gentleman Caller and Nick White's Stuff I Found on My Desk and Never Show Knees in Public.

Matthew Hay's This is so Deep

Andrea Kearney's Gentleman Caller

We also went to the Talyor Wessing Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery. These were the images that stood out for.

Oliver by Kelvin Murray

Wen by Jasper Clarke

Flower Garden by Roberto Tondopo

(However cant find a decent image of it online at all!)

Christina Killa, Chief Prison Officer by Alinka Echeverria

Erika E. Born in 1910 by Karsten Thormaehlen

Saltdean

2011-11-17T13:41:00.002Z

One very sunny day

2011-11-13T20:35:00.000Z

FIRE!!!

2011-11-06T20:27:00.003Z

White Night

2011-10-31T20:14:00.000Z

So I went to the SeaLife centre, stumbled on Dollytopia, drew on the floor in a gallery and talked to the forest on the phone (although he didn't have much to say).

Snoozing Herman

Sea Turtles Are Huge

Ally Capellino Bag Competition "2012, how do you see it?"

2011-10-04T18:53:00.001+01:00

I entered Ally Capellino's Competition "2012, how do you see it?" and today I found out I was one of three winners. Very happy! My design will be seen next year on Ally Capellino's shop bags.

Check out the other winners and entries here on Tumblr and here on Facebook.

Watercolour People

2011-07-13T16:57:00.002+01:00

Calculator Risograph

2011-07-04T02:34:00.001+01:00

My drawing which was printed using riso for the PDYE Brief - Value.

"Before Life"

2011-07-04T02:23:00.002+01:00

Some drawing experiments for the Poketo x Boooooooom Wallet Contest based on the theme "Before Life."

THINK / MAKE meets PDYE

2011-06-23T15:51:00.000+01:00

Come on down and have a look see!

More Degree Show Images

2011-06-21T18:28:00.003+01:00

UPDATED: Added a few images from the gallery.

Some more images from the Graphics section of my degree show.

Monica Jackson

Katie Lewis

Sam Marshall

Gareth Aldridge

Laura Wolfram

Sian Butcher

Helen Royds

Images from the Fine Art section - afraid I didn't keep note of names but here are a few pieces I really liked.

This bear is one of my favorite things in the whole show.

A few of images from the gallery.

Arna Runars

Lara Honeyball

Bartek Marchlewski

Sauce Collective Degree Show

2011-06-21T18:06:00.003+01:00

UPDATED! - Added a couple of images of Kat's work.

Here is a selection of images of our degree show work. I will put a few more up tomorrow because I am missing one vital ingredient some photos of Kat's work.

Kat's Space

Grant's Space

Victoria' Space

Neil's Space

Josh's Space

My Space

MISSING DEGREE SHOW WORK!

2011-06-17T08:34:00.000+01:00

It is a long shot but one of my Degree Show Books disappeared at the private view last night so if anyone seen it or knows anything please let me know. Thanks!

PDYE Drafts

2011-06-15T00:48:00.000+01:00

Alternative Invite

2011-06-04T09:26:00.002+01:00

Grant Killoran decided to make his own version of the Degree Show Invite. Check it out!

Grant's Alternative Invite

Empty Space

2011-06-02T00:54:00.000+01:00

My degree show space now needs filling.

Car Booty

2011-05-29T17:28:00.001+01:00

Been to the car boot today brought a few things such as a large flower press which I am going to use to hopefully press my concertina book. Also I brought a 3d view master which I want to by some more reels.

Found all these hidden in a tin, some national registration cards, funeral cards and some photos.

Tristan's pile of goodies.

Printed Postcards

2011-05-26T14:40:00.000+01:00

On Tuesday I got the postcards back from the printers. Now I am attempting to make a concertina hand bound book, having a lot of trouble with figuring out the best way of constructing it. Here is some photos of my little mini mock up.

A Good Companion

2011-05-11T17:15:00.001+01:00

"Yesterday sunshine, could not see at all"

2011-03-02T00:09:00.003Z

Peonies Postcard

2011-03-01T23:51:00.001Z

Monoprinting test

2011-02-18T00:31:00.001Z

5 things I like and 5 things I don't

2011-02-16T11:46:00.002Z

Animation made for university. The brief was to make a 50 second film, in 5 second sections showing 5 things I like and 5 things I don't using a range of techniques.

Molecules and Follicles

2011-01-12T23:55:00.002Z

Finally finished my soundbite animation for Digital Practices and Theory. I decided to make a title sequence for a fictional television show about the fascinating world that is just below the surface of our skin.

Productive Pigeon

2010-12-09T01:30:00.001Z

I Hate Screaming Children

2010-11-21T15:36:00.002Z

Envelopes

2010-10-29T22:48:00.003+01:00

I have been drawing lots of envelopes for an animation brief. The objective is to complete ten 5 seconds animations, 5 clips about things I like and 5 things I dislike. The envelopes represent my like of opening post or receiving a parcel I have ordered from the internet.

Meet the family

2010-10-21T22:33:00.001+01:00

So I have been brightening up the place today. Decorating the light switches, with special thanks to my accomplice Megan and courtesy of Barry.

Poppy

Poppy and Ernie

Benjamin

Rosie

Bea

Ernie

Edward

Football No.2

2010-10-19T22:04:00.002+01:00

A selection of photographs from Sunday's football match between Oakley Yth FC and Cherbourg Yth FC. Oakley (Yellow team) won 6-5.

More Fabric Creatures!

2010-10-19T17:10:00.004+01:00

I have created some more fabric creatures made from split peas. These two designs were one offs. To see my previous creatures click here.

Dolly Wolly Woo's

2010-10-19T14:40:00.000+01:00

Printing

2010-09-03T15:28:00.002+01:00

Been attempting to linoprint my own business cards. Just got to cut them all out now and print the reverse.

Split Pea

2010-08-15T20:48:00.000+01:00

I have been attempting to make some fabric creatures, here are some of final finished beasts!

Cog painted finally!

2010-08-08T16:40:00.001+01:00

Hillier garden day trip

2010-07-10T22:18:00.001+01:00

Been meaning to post these photos for a while, we went to the Hillier Gardens to see the Art in the Garden Exhibition. The sculptures range hugely in size and materials, all shown in a beautiful setting.

Repeat Patterns

2010-06-01T16:21:00.000+01:00

Zines

2010-05-31T13:13:00.001+01:00

For the London Zine Symposium I created 2 different zines one about Mr Mcgee and one about Black Annis. They will also be on sale at Checkout in Bristol on 12 June, with other cool stuff created by the Sauce collective.

Cutout Book

2010-05-31T12:32:00.002+01:00

The paper cutouts that I made in response to the myth of Black Annis have been painted in acrylic and then sewn into this handmade book.

The Myth of Black Annis

2010-05-29T21:24:00.005+01:00

For my self initiated project I was looking into the Myth of Black Annis.

A tale about a blue skinned hag, who haunted the Dane Hills in Leicestershire. Black Annis would lurk in the branches of an old oak tree, poised ready to ambush lambs or children who played out after dark. Failing this she would head for the town, to snatch sleeping children straight from their beds. She would skin the children alive and eat their flesh. The skins would then be used as decorations for her cave or sewn together to create clothes.

I created a series of papercuts.

London Zine Symposium

2010-05-29T21:08:00.001+01:00

Been neglecting my blog a bit lately been busy with hand in for uni and making zines for the London Zine Symposium, which the Sauce Collective attended today. Had a good time but absolutely cream crackered now! Will be posting what I have been up to shortly!

Meet Mr Mcgee!!!

2010-05-17T17:47:00.000+01:00

So here's what I did over easter...

2010-04-20T20:35:00.000+01:00

Bookshop Doodles

2010-03-09T17:48:00.001Z

Printed!

2010-03-07T23:25:00.000Z

Two of my photographs from the Oakley Football match were printed in the Basingstoke Gazette last Thursday. Yay!

The Bookshop

2010-03-05T01:12:00.000Z

Postboxes good but not useful

2010-03-03T16:04:00.001Z

So I have discovered the postbox idea isn't going to work for this brief. But I would like to use it as a theme for a project sometime in the future. My new plan is to use the Winchester Antique Bookshop. Still here are some photos of postboxes for your enjoyment!

Genius Loci and the start of my obsession with Postboxes

2010-03-03T15:46:00.002Z

To start the new brief I went for a wander round good old Winchester town in search of "my space," a place with an interesting atmosphere. Possible locations were a run down garage, a telephone box, park benches, the river, the discovery centre and postboxes. The discovery centre and postboxes stood out for me as ideas, however after a trip to the centre I was left uninspired so I moved on to the postbox as a space.

Football

2010-02-22T19:26:00.002Z

On sunday I had my first attempt at football photography. Here's a selection of some of my favorites. Btw Oakley (yellow team) won!

UPDATE! - now added some more photos to flickr. Have a butchers!

The Body Shop - Developed

2010-02-07T16:28:00.002Z

After the initial collages I decided to produce a series of posters. These would be collaged from paper cut from magazines and composed on Photoshop. These are a selection of some of the developed illustrations.

The Body Shop - Initial Ideas

2010-02-06T17:46:00.001Z

Last semester I was working on the D&AD brief for the Body Shop, to design an unconventional brand campaign. The concept for my images was to take the body shop products into public and usual places, bringing a sense of fun and freedom. These are some of my initial collages.

Flash Lipsync

2010-02-05T23:24:00.000Z

Pobble Lipsync from Chantal Mayhew on Vimeo.

The Pobble and His Toes

2010-01-25T14:17:00.003Z

Here are some more illustrations from my character design project. We had to choose one of our three characters, make up a back story and then illustrate it. I decided to develop the Pobble with no toes from Edward Lear's poem the Quangle Wangle's Hat. Explaining how he came to be toeless!

The Pobble once had the most beautiful toes in all the land, three on each foot. Jealous, the Quangle Wangle wanted them for his ever growing collection of oddities which were tied to his hat. So one day the Quangle Wangle slipped some sleeping pills into the Pobble’s drink. He was out like a light and when the Pobble came too his beautiful toes were gone.

1 Minute

2010-01-25T13:36:00.004Z

Finally finished my 1 minute film for uni. Its a stopframe animation using my illustrations from my character design project. Have a look see!

Cutouts from Chantal Mayhew on Vimeo.

Kinetic Type

2009-12-13T16:38:00.004Z

Screenshots from my kinetic type animation. It was my first venture into After Effects.

Shaky O'Neil

2009-12-13T16:34:00.002Z

Inky Fingers

2009-12-09T15:17:00.007Z

Here are some initial doodles i created to help me generate ideas for my character design project. We were given a selecting of poems by Edward Lear and asked to develop 3 characters.

My original ink doodles evolved into these strange creatures.

The Pobble

The Crumpetty Tree

The Attery Squash

Snakes

2009-12-08T21:23:00.006Z

At the start of the year we were given a brief to create a stop-frame animation around the theme of cause and effect. Naturally I decided to do an animation about a needle chasing a snake. It seemed the most logical thing to do, of course.

Snake from Chantal Mayhew on Vimeo.

Doughnuts!

2009-11-26T22:21:00.005Z

The book I made is on the WSA website. Instead of being feature on the illustration pathway my work has been put on the photography page. What doughnuts! But still yay!

Felt

2009-11-24T18:06:00.003Z

Felt illustrations for 3 of Enid Blyton's Fairyland short stories.

Now then, Busy Body!

Silly-One and the Jewels

The Balloon Pipe

Leftovers

2009-11-24T00:30:00.005Z

This is the first project I did last year. The brief was to produce a zine about the uni campus. I love paper so I began collecting scraps and cutoffs from around the site as well as taking some photographs. I cut out objects from the photos that had interesting silhouettes. These were thn collaged together with the found papers. Hence the name "Leftovers."

Just Add Water

2009-11-15T17:39:00.017Z

My first handmade book titled Just Add Water, taking you through the journey of the water cycle from the sea to your tap.

A Little Book of Barcelona

2009-11-15T13:33:00.020Z

Sew sew sew!

2009-10-27T00:13:00.012Z

Well it's been a while since I posted anything, so here are some pieces I made for my summer project, which was based on the idea of predator and prey. I decided I wanted to create some work using fabric, paper, thread and wool. First made a series of 3 images, which created using a sewing machine.

I then went on to make this single piece, that represented a food chain in a circular pattern.

Afterwards i felt like i want to move away from using a sewing machine and did some hand sewn stuff instead so I produced these illustrations, which were much more expressive and slightly morbid in their content.

The Food Chain

2009-09-23T14:03:00.007+01:00

I have been working on my summer project for uni. The brief stated we were to chose one of 5 words, they were:

Process, Alienate, Persuasion, Dominate and Alternate

The brief was really open and there was no specific outcome or deliverable. After researching into all of the words, I decided to produce work on the word dominate. Specifically looking into food chains, predators and prey.

I begun by researching food webs on the internet, but soon decided I wanted to focus more on British backgarden wildlife and food chains found there.

I found the RSPB website really helpful with an a to z of wildlife found in a typical garden. Allowing me to start to build up a diagram of a food web from which to base my work.

For Grant

2009-09-23T13:54:00.003+01:00

Here is a beautiful doodle by Kat. I think its one of her best pieces!

Everything has to start somewhere

2009-08-03T20:32:00.004+01:00

Hello I'm Mayhee and I may actually, eventually get around to posting some interesting stuff in the not too distant future, sometime maybe, if your lucky! or maybe not.

I promise nothing