Artist, illustrator & designer from Belfast NI - Rachel Devlin Illustration

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Last night something cool happened in Belfast City

Last night something cool happened in Belfast City Hall, something I was a tiny part of it and have been working on for the past month - the Heritage Angel Awards with ulster_ahs & andrewlloydwebberfoundation

I entered an Architectural heritage art challenge in October; enter an piece of art, photography, music or writing inspired by any of our Northern Irish buildings. I entered an illustration of stgeorgesbelfast our city’s beautiful Victorian market, a place I know so well and just love (swipe last pic!)
I was chosen as the Heritage Arts winner for illustration and received some mentoring in working in architectural sketching & illustration, with the aim to create a final piece for the awards last night.

I was given a series of exercises that are quite different from the way I usually work when it comes to drawing buildings, and filled quite a bit of my sketchbook with 1 min sketches, 5 min sketches, no lines just watercolour, pen & ink, all drawing en plein air. Out of the usual comfort zone of my studio!
You can swipe to see some of my rough sketches, I thought I’d share them warts & all! 🙊🙃

My favourite, and happily my mentor Marcus Patton’s favourite too, was a sketch of the Hillside Pub, Hillsborough, Co. Down which I then finished properly in my studio.
The Hillside is such a gorgeous Georgian building, dating from 1700’s. So much character!

I couldn’t make it to the awards last night but I got to watch it on the livestream and had such a lovely moment when I saw my finished illustration on the screen.

Thank you so much to ulster_ahs for including me in their Arts Challenge and mentoring, it was very special to be part of & I hope you all had an amazing time last night ✨

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Goodbye Autumn ❤️🍁🍂 Haven’t the colo

Goodbye Autumn ❤️🍁🍂

Haven’t the colours been amazing this year? I love this time of year and have always thought of autumn as a magical time. This was a commission I did last year to capture those autumnal colours & atmosphere of a much loved street in Belfast, I adored working with those autumnal colours ❤️🍂

Over the weekend, I noticed the trees near my house are suddenly looking very bare and winter is creeping in ❄️ I don’t think I’m ready to say goodbye to autumn just yet, but I’m sure that getting out all my snuggle winter woolies, getting cosy by the fire and mulling some wine will help me cope with the new season! 😉🔥🪵🍷🥰

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I love how nature always finds a way 🙌 Still bl

I love how nature always finds a way 🙌
Still blooming in November 💜

Have a lovely Sunday everyone ☺️☕️

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I’m a busy bee at the moment working away on a t

I’m a busy bee at the moment working away on a ton of Christmas commissions at the moment so I can’t share anything I’m working on right now. So here’s a throw back to earlier this year designing journals for makeartthatsells #matsbootcamp 2021.
Oh my, what a fun course that was! I always adore working with lillarogers wonderful blobby colours (if you know, you know 😉😁 🎨) Aw, I can’t wait now for the next bootcamp! 🤩

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