Ellena Sandford

Pencil Portraits

I have been working on a few pencil portraits lately, here are a few famous faces from my sketchbook.

Home Sweet Home!

Here is a sneak peek at my new studio...

This Will Kill That Exhibition Summer 2009

Central plinth: 'Beans, Beans...' children's book

Far left: 'Beans, Beans...' children's book

Centre-right: Disappearing animals project, four white dresses

Centre back wall: Disappearing animals project, wooden framed artwork made from plastic and glue.

Photo's Andrew Kendall for more photographs from the exhibition visit http://www.andrewkendall.com/lightbox/this_will_kill_that/

Published in Grazia

I was commissioned by Grazia Magazine to draw a Susan Boyle paper doll, here is the finished article:

Yellow Pages Man Animaiton

Yellow Pages Man Animation

Stop-motion music video using over a thousand cut-outs, for more info visit the blog http://www.justforkicksproject.blogspot.com/

Greenvoice.com competition

Great News! I won the Greenvoice student competition. Have a look at the other designs here: http://www.greenvoice.com/poster_competition

My design was based on the Soviet Union street posters currently on display at the Tate Modern. The idea was to use this famous propaganda poster in a positive way to promote the green web site to students.

Band Flyer

I designed the flyers for a new Ska / Pop band called Just For Kicks. A screen printed version of the whole flyer can be seen in the Printing section of My Gallery. Let me know what you think. Visit their myspace...

http://www.myspace.com/justforkicksofficial

Bring On The Bling!

Continuing with the theme of Play and making a board game for paper dolls I decided to make a boy version that adults would have fun with too. I created Bring On The Bling, where the aim is to roll the dice and land on a "Bring on the Bling" square to collect as much bling as possible to win. I decided the theme would be a light-hearted take on Hip-Hop culture with references to break-dancing, graffiti and fashion.

2D Board Game (hand painted acrylic and spray paint)

Characters with Magnetic Bling (made from tin and magnetic strips)

3D Board Game

New York! New York!

I flew from London to New York and visited most of the tourist attractions and tested my photography skills. For more photo's see the Photography section in my gallery.

Paper dolls and new clothes

Make your own paper dolls! Save these images to your desktop, print them and cut out the little ladies and their clothes. Use the tabs to keep their clothes on and change them for every occasion. These paper dolls are sold with the handmade Fashion Frenzy board game, for more clothes and info please contact me.

Play Exhibition

This involved collaborating with other students at Camberwell College of Arts to create an exhibition on the theme of PLAY. I created a board game with paper dolls aimed at girls aged 6-8 years-old. The object of the game is to roll the dice and land on the "wardrobe square" to pick out an item of clothing. The first person to dress their paper doll wins and gets to go party at the disco. The exhibition was a great success and I'd like to thank everyone for coming!