Here's my contribution to They Draw and Cook's Fave Memory Handpicked Design Challenge. My Fave Memory from my childhood years in South Africa is sitting under the Almond trees in my Gran’s garden drinking tea, chatting about our day and eating home made jam tarts. My favourite part of this tradition was after we’d all drunk our tea Gran would read our tea leaves! I thought she was magic! #tea #tealeaves #packagingdesign #editorialillustration #lucindakidney #almondblossom #F

The Anonymous heART project is back! Go to @luckidney to see sneak peeks of the three original pieces of artwork I’ve submitted to the @heartresearchuk #anonartprojectAll pieces will be auctioned on eBay from 4th – 13th October to raise money to take on heart disease. Please click on the link to take you to @heartresearchukwebsite to get an alert for when the auction goes live. #HeartResearchUK #AnonymousheARTProject #Flowers #Florals #handpainted #gouache

I’ve entered Bloom & Wild Outside the Box competition. The brief is to design packaging for their floral letter boxes and the theme is Summer Brights.🤞🏻 My idea and moodboard is inspired by a family holiday to Santa Barbara last summer. Each year, the heart and soul of the Santa Barbara community celebrates the “Old Spanish Days Fiesta.” The spirit of community celebrates and brings to life the shared history and culture of the special community of Santa Barbara. I would li

In February I was given a brief to illustrate a floral 'logo', floral poster illustration and floral border illustration to promote Hampton Court Palace's annual event 'Florimania' which you can read about here. I'm looking forward to attending the event on Friday and will update this post with more info soon :) #Florimania #HamptonCourtPalace #floral #watercolour #floralillustration #lucindakidney #illustration #flowers #London

The last few months have been really busy! We moved house at the end of the summer school holidays and I've also been creating new work when not unpacking boxes!! I've really been enjoying combining my hand painted work with digital, using Procreate on my iPad Pro. I resisted drawing on a screen for so long because I thought it was a 'cop out' but I love it now because it eliminates so many extra time consuming steps in the creating process and I can take my iPad anywhere! I

I recently visited the Frida Kahlo exhibition at London's V&A museum. I was so inspired by her paintings, clothing, house and artefacts that I created a moodboard for a Gardener's Journal cover. #gardenjournalgardenplanner #floral #flowers #japaneseanemones #staghornfern #fridakahlo #lucindakidney #editorialillustration #botanicalillustration #greige

I have been researching my family history on and off for a number of years. Earlier this year I thought it would be lovely to illustrate my research as a tribute to my ancestors and also as a visual keepsake for our children. I hand painted Selmar's portrait and the flowers. The handwriting and signature is his actual handwriting which I discovered in his Botany Text Books and a Notebook on a recent visit to South Africa. The newspaper clipping was also found pasted inside

I've been keeping up daily with the 100 day project. At the moment I'm focusing on interior illustration. Here are some of my recent room scenes. #interiorillustration #editorialillustration #illustration #home #bust #table #plant #vase #flowers #telephone #poppies #news #stilllife

I've decided to participate in the 100 day project which started on April 3rd. When it began my family and I were in the South African bush going on game drives and wi-fi was limited so I haven't really been able to get stuck into it properly. I'd like to use this project to continue developing my hand drawing and digital skills. I love to draw by hand and then use Adobe Photoshop to polish my work for editorial print. Here are a few of my illustrations so far. If you like, y

I have been preparing files for my portfolio on The Association of Illustrator's website... here is a taster. Click here to view more of my work. #AssociationofIllustrators #Illustration #collage #fish #flowers #floral #daisies #coffee

Wishing you all a safe, happy and peaceful Easter! #Easter #estereggs #easterbunny #easterchicks #flowers #floral #henryVIIIHamptonCourtPalace #butterfly #ladybird #insect

Hi everyone! I can't believe it's only a week to go until Christmas Eve!!! I discovered yesterday that two of my Christmas designs are available to buy as wall art from the Sundance Graphics website. If you'd like to purchase them you can find them here https://www.sdgraphics.com/system/search_detail.php?id=11825L Since the summer I've been a designer with A Fresh Bunch http://afreshbunch.com/member/lucinda-kidney #Artlicensing #christmas #wallart #sundancegraphics #AFreshBun

Over the last two weeks I have been really busy with a new online e-course run by Lilla Rogers and Margo Tantau on how to create a Home Decor Collection. It is a long held dream of mine to see my designs on products in the stores and taking this course is just one tiny step in that direction. The course is intensive but so much fun and I feel a huge sense of pride at my achievements thus far. We were given a choice of three mood boards to choose from, all of which are gorgeou

I recently completed Jessica Swift's Pattern Camp (http://www.jessicaswift.com/pattern-camp) where I learnt how to create a pattern repeat using Adbobe Illustrator. I am so pleased and excited to share with you two patterns I created today... I've entered them in this month's Tigerprint competition (http://designcompetition.tigerprint.uk.com) so fingers crossed! #pattern #camp #jessica #swift #tigerprint #floral #flowers

Spring's imminent arrival inspired my MATS Bootcamp February main assignment. Above is an example of one of my many sketches and below is what I'm going to submit to the gallery. #spring #birds #flowers #floral #mats #bootcamp

Children are, by nature, curious and are keen to participate if something looks like it's going to be fun, engaging and exciting. They don't need fancy or expensive materials to be creative and have fun in the process. They are great at using their imaginations and their collaborations inspire each other. This evening's presentation was from a group of Roehampton University students. They described their experience in leading a class of 18 six year olds at a Battersea school

Over the last week or so I've been busy sketching cuckoo clocks. I've had a lot of fun utilising my drawing and computer skills again. All the elements in this illustration were hand drawn, scanned into the computer to be used as a template and redrawn in Adobe Illustrator. #cuckooclock #illustrator #illustration #bird #heartsleaves #flowers