Category Archives: music

13 May
Jazz and draw – musicians

Musicians are great to draw and paint and throughout my career I keep coming back to them at one point or another. I was recently asked by Philippe Debongnie, a Belgian illustrator, to contribute an image to his website www.jazzanddraw.com . Inspired by his love of jazz, it’s a collaborative but curated venture involving images

01 Sep
New Commission – Auto Body

  This is a commission for the US band Auto Body.  I work in acrylic on card which allows me to contrast flat colours (looking contemporary – eg; screen print revival and digital illustration) with more painterly marks (more traditional watercolour technique.)  It’ll be interesting to see where these take me…  Copyright – Helen Cann

19 Jul
Zoe

I’ve been working on finishing some more images connected to music.  I went to a folk night the other week and think it would be a great place to sketch.  This image is from life and I think I might do more leaving the drawing visible against the card…