Egg-static!

So here it is - me with my finished Alpha egg of London. Actually is is somewhere here but you will have to find it!

A well travelled egg

Tom then took the egg to be lacquered to seal the vinyls and protect them for being scratched...

It's dirty work but someones got to do it!

Then it had to dry off and harden for a few days before I could pick it up and deliver it to Egg HQ!

Get Cracking!

The rest followed without much problem until we got near the bottom on the curviest part and then the hairdryer had to come out to warm the vinyls so they stuck to the curve!

and this little character is my favourite!

An eggcellent day!

Early one sunday morning armed with big mugs of tea and the leftover Christmas biscuits, Tom & I got to work...

We took photos of all angles of the egg and then removed the template images then the egg had to be cleaned ready for the vinyls.

(I must have been eating Bourbons at this point!)

All clean and ready to go!

And so we started at a for Albert!

Paintin', Cuttin' and a Pastin'

The surface of the egg had to be primed and painted so I called in Tom - a very skilled person who usually rebuilds and sprays things like this...

He is also my brother (which helps!) so very kindly offered to paint the egg.


Most of the work I do is on a flat surface, be it paper or onscreen, so when faced with a metre high fiberglass egg you have to think a bit differently. I spent ages printing out the characters and letters to include in the design and offering them up to see what worked best and where.

Then I sent all of the characters off to the lovely Dave and Amanda at SK Signs & Labels Ltd who created individual vinyl transfers and gave me a lesson or two on how to apply them to the egg.

The Alpha'egg' of London

I have always been a bit of a doodler, sticker and gluer. As a child there was always something to draw on and a box of crayons or pencils to hand. All of my family are creative in some form or another and if I haven’t got a camera or a pen and something to scribble on I feel lost.

I have already created two illustrated alphabets and was in the process of finishing a new alphabet design of London when I found out about the egg hunt and thought the design would work perfectly, as it would appeal to children and had images of London they would be familiar with.

And so I went to collect my egg...

Feeling very 'egg'cited!

On Shrove Tuesday, 21st February, I will be one of 200 artists and designers taking part in one of the biggest egg hunts London has ever seen! It has been organised by these lovely people and hopes to raise 1 million pounds each for The Elephant Family & Action for Children.
You have 40 days and 40 nights to discover 200 large fiberglass eggs decorated by artists which will be displayed in high profile locations around London. All the eggs will be auctioned for the charites at the end of the hunt and there is also the chance it will make it into the Guiness Book of World Records!

So get cracking kids and join the fun! ;) x