Hold on.

Hold in there! is all the thoughts that are running through my head, when it comes to my blog, I won't be blogging until I have sorted certain new elements of my blog out. I can't say too much, i am the worst at not sharing stuff normally and I am just champing at the bit to share all my thoughts with you, but for now I will be keeping things under wraps, just so it all comes together properly.

Thank you all for your support recently and kind words about my doing new things on here, I know its my blog and my space but to take a new step ( not to drastic) can always be scary and uncertain. 

I have had a few enquiries about blog advertising I don't want to at the moment take on any new ads,  until I am 100% happy with my site, once everything is in place then I will be more then happy to get people space on here, I think it would be for the best. I have some lovely things coming up so hold in there lovelies. I will still be sharing my daily snaps over on Instagram _ellamasters_ I hope you can join me over there.
If there are any kinds of posts that you would like to see more of I would love to hear your thoughts. 

Adventures are best....

So I am off on a little adventure this weekend with my boy and I wont be blogging, we have a lot planned and of course I will share all with you when I am back in London. At the moment, the blog is in a state of flux with new ideas, layouts and new content. But you're caring words about backing me all the way with the new ideas etc were really needed, I want to keep a lot of it to myself, its just better that way. oh and please don't worry it won't be a drastic change, I won't be declaring myself a beauty blogger or anything any time soon... I have had a lot of supportive tweets from people sharing their thoughts and why I shouldn't stop blogging, with advice on what they think I should do. I am just going to take my time to decide I have read all of your tweets thank you for the love....I will enjoy my time away..

*Text on photo made via a beautiful mess app, totally in love well done girls!

illustrations from way back when

This here little watercolour painting is my first venture into illustration you can see I was starting to venture into tattooed people. I painted this back in 2009 for an open house exhibition when I was at university at Falmouth University college down in cornwall. 

I came across my old portfolio due to the fact I am documenting my progression in illustration and my art. I always love looking back at old work and seeing how far I have come I will be making little prints of my old collections. My illustration website is coming along nicely, its the first time ever that all my creations will be in one place. So excited about sharing it all with you. 

I have had a few people asking about how i got into illustrations and what inspires me so I thought I would ramble on about illustration and me.

As a child I would make little magazines and illustrate them, I would probably call it drawing even now, I don't consider myself an illustrator more of an artist, someone who strings a living of using my brain and hands to make pretty things.

I became more interested in illustration when my Art Tutor Mary Mabbutt at falmouth uni who tutored me from second year, really took a shine to my work and inspired me and showed me her love for illustration and more narrative based work. I will always cite Mary as someone who instilled in me a new found passion for creating art and pushing yourself to create, observe and enjoy what you create. Another creative from falmouth that always kept me inspired when I ventured into her studio was Melissa Kime, her drawings are amazing.

I have learn't a lot about how to always stay inspired as a creative and an artist so here is what i think...

- I think as artists we should set ourselves no limits, don't stick to a particular style, experiment, never stop learning, searching and working. 

- Surround yourself with people and things that will keep you sane, inspired and thirsty. 

-If you don't think you can do something....I bet you can and you are likely to be afraid of failure, there is nothing wrong with this as long as you don't let it stop you in your pursuit of happiness. 

- People will always be negative if you are talented or show a passion for something, don't listen to them, they are wrong it will make you stronger. 

- Don't be afraid to fight for what you create, when i was at school my teacher told me I couldn't draw portraits, so i did nothing for the rest of my school projects but draw portraits i proved she was wrong and I learn't a lot about myself.

- Never be afraid to make mistakes, some of my best pieces of work come from messing about in my sketchbook, let your imagination know no boundaries, keep on your toes. 

- never give up, seriously if everyone did that we wouldn't have beautiful pieces by the likes of van gogh. ( my favourite) 

- I get a lot of people say to me I will never draw as good as you, well i bet there are things that you do that i won't ever be good at. Focus on your strengths and not other peoples.  

- Create work that brings something positive and good to the world, that means more when it is in the world, then when it is not. 

- More then anything love what you do, it really shows. Find something you can pour your heart into.

My inspiration comes from the fact I love the everyday, moments are precious to me, cue snapping everything for this blog and instagram. Simple things can be beautiful don't forget that.

So there are a few of my thoughts, I do think a few things can be used in most aspects of your life make the most of all you have thats the most important thing. 

from my desk

Recently most of my days have been spent at my desk in my little bedroom studio, I had spent the weekend creating 45 illustrations and 45 pieces of jewellery for a blogger meet up that will be soon. It was busy busy all completed and packaged up in one day. I wanted to share a few little pictures from glimpses of my everyday taken from my Instagram _ellamasters_ 

Most of my days are based around the amount of tea I can consume, I am trying to add a lot more colour into my day a bit of a boost to cheer me, I've have spent most of my time in the studio channelling a little bit of the pre-raphellite brother hood bohemian look... come on hair grow!

My days can so easily get away from me, but I have so many projects you do loose what time of the day it is....I have recently become obsessed with kate moss lipstick for rimmel, totally in love.

How do you spend most of your days? There will be a little blog post soon about the changing of this here little blog...

a little note to say..

How are you lovely lot? I have spent a lot of today drawing original illustrations to send for an event, I do love drawing random little cheeky people, cats, mountains and bearded dudes....lets hope people also love these random doodles. Today and this week has made me realise a lot about myself and where my life is headed...cue quarter life crisis. So here is the truth, I am currently stuck in a bit of a creative/life rut, not going to lie pretty much hating a lot of things at the moment, Believe me I hate nothing more then negativity...but I feel I am getting complacent with life. You know when the things you are doing are no longer fun, . So I am setting myself a few targets that will hopefully shake me up a bit. Drawing and being creative comes, rather easy to me and I don't think easy is always good, i have stopped being curious, so I have decided I am wanting to learn more, see new things and develop myself. I have started to question my abilities as a blogger, artist and creatives, I really don't like doing that and I am so stubborn I hate giving up on things I love, I contemplated no longer blogging and that isn't an option so I need to find something new...a new chapter.

I think there is no time like the present, sometimes we think we don't deserve better, or we don't think we can push ourselves to reach our full potential for fear of failure, well, I think I am well and truly stuck. So here is to reaching my full potential,  So here is a little pack to myself and my readers that prepare for a bit of a mix up on this here little reflection of my life. I feel like giving a lot more back to my readers...So here's to the new phase of ella...I hope you can join me on my new adventures. 

flowers anyone?

On Sunday me and mum went for a little adventure to East london, I thought I would share with you what I wore to wander around columbia road. It probably was the busiest I had ever seen it, it took us 10 minutes to walk through the flower stalls, it would normally take a few minutes. I wore my Celia Birtwell for Uniqlo tucked into my high waisted Newlook jeans, the red shoes are always turning heads, they were bought by my younger brother, I think they were Office, the scarf was from a little charity shop in falmouth for 25p I think. I love wearing patterns and colours when it comes to summer time. 

We decided on a few bunches of flowers and some pot plants, mainly to spruce up my studio and to cheer us both up. Don't flowers just make everything better? I love having a florist for a mother, she is the best at arranging flowers and we always have a massive vase of flowers in our house, I think currently we have five bunches in the living room.  I will be sharing more of my photos from our trip and the most beautiful little shop. 

Inside my sketchbook week 1

As an artist and an illustrator I have always kept a sketchbook, I think its the done thing for us creatives the perfect place to put all the things you have bouncing around your head down and on to something more tangible, so here is my latest pieces, I always work best in my sketchbook which has always frustrated me, I think it feels far more natural to me then a big piece of white paper. I am still trying to get over that blank page fear....we all get it from time to time. 

At the moment, I am very much inspired by colours and emotions, oh and patterns I love a good pattern, I have been using a lot of acrylic and pencil in my moleskin, its so versatile and the pages of the moleskin are off white so the paint looks so much nicer then on the stark white background. 

Once again I am working away on new bearded tattooed dudes, I can't help it I do love doodling them, the one above will be from my new Summer bearded dude collection....there will be an array of lovely bearded men, and the "Be Mine" sketch is for a piece I am working on for my boyfriend he is bound to of seen this before I send him it lets hope he likes it. 

Every page is an experiment and a challenge to create all the ideas that are taking up my tiny brain space, I am such a sucker for stationary and I never cherish the pages, I love the final pieces but I love to make a mess on the pages, its always best to never hold yourself back, colours, shapes and patterns are always best when they come from the heart. I do find I am yet to create a piece that i am 100% satisfied with as artists we are always chasing the next idea or building the same one never truly reaching it, its an ongoing process and thats what I love. 

Creative crushes at the moment - Maira Kalman - Julia Pott -  Listening to - Ludovico Einaudi