Cartoon Workshops, May & June 2013
By popular demand we will once again be conducting a four-week programme of workshops with junior and senior school pupils at The Haven, Blantyre. The Haven offers support and respite to families with experience of terminal illness. As before these workshops are not open to the public. Keep an eye on the blog for further ...
Happy Birthday to us…
The Scottish Cartoon Art Studio is delighted to celebrate 14 years in business this week. Here’s some of the recent feedback we’ve had from customers… On our gift caricatures for birthdays and retirements: “Just a note to thank you for the caricature you drew for our friend’s 50th. He thought it was amazing, fell about ...
Cartoon Case Study: conference badges
Our caricatures can be used in a variety of ways. Fleet Alliance are running a conference in Glasgow today and all delegates will receive a caricature name badge. Photos were forwarded to us and we in turn made the artwork available for download in plenty of time for the badges to be fabricated by the ...
World Cup Legends 2014
Chris is hard at work putting together the 2014 edition of his book of football caricatures, World Cup Legends, featuring famous faces from the greatest sporting tournament on earth. Please read more and consider supporting this project via indiegogo, where you can also see more preview pages. Sample page with caricatures by Chris Sommerville & design work ...
Caricatures at Pollokshields Fun Day
We will be providing FREE caricatures at a fun day with West of Scotland Housing Association at the Adventist Church Hall on Turriff Street, Wednesday 3rd of April, 11.15-13.15. Come along early and avoid the queue, as the last drawing will be made at quarter past one sharp!
Cartoon case study: factual comic
In April this year new reforms will affect the amount of housing benefit received by hundreds of thousands of people living in social housing across the UK. In particular the so-called ”bedroom tax” is a potential source of discord between housing associations and their tenants as it is effectively an enforced increase in rent for ...
Cartoon case study: caricatures at a conference
The West of Scotland Housing Association booked us to provide caricatures of staff at their recent conference, held at the newly-opened Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome. We’re the first caricaturists to work in the new venue and found the facilities very impressive indeed. Hopefully not our last visit! The main speaker on the day was Andy ...
“Tickling Jock”, Chic Murray caricature
Following our debut exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2006 four pieces from the Fizzers® collection where acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland. After the refurbishment of the SNPG one of the pieces – Brian’s caricature of Wet Wet Wet front man Marti Pellow – was used in one of the new ...
Cartoon Workshops, January & February 2013
We will be working with pupils at Moorpark Primary, Kilbirnie, on the Making an Exhibition of Yourself project in January and February, concluding our current run of events with North Ayrshire Council’s Children’s Literacies & Arts service. We look forward to more workshops in 2013. Keep an eye on the blog for further details. ...
Merry Christmas 2012
Merry Christmas to our customers and friends from all at the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio! Hard to believe a year has passed since the relaunch of the website. We’ve worked hard to add to it on a regular basis but inevitably when deadlines have mounted around us we had to concentrate on more urgent matters. ...