*Black conté pencil, Art Graf carbon black. From the Dior Pre-Fall 2024 collection in NY, April 17 2024 There was a time I would start planning my Saturday nights when I woke up on Sunday morning (*approximately morning*). It’s funny how life cycles go, I am returning more and more to the ways of my earlier years when I was a textbook introvert and much preferred staying in and making things – art, clothes, etc. Put a movie on in the background? Heaven. Add to that these days I spend every few weekends with my mum in the country and you have a pretty quiet life. And did I mention I ditched th ..read more

It started with me racking my brain to think of a winning gift for a friend, while also rifling through my neatly folded and categorised piles of t-shirts in my wardrobe. “Too plain””Too dark””Too boring””Something like my Nick Cave drawing would be perfect” *Cue lightbulb moment* “WHY DON’T I PAINT ONE!!” Of course someone saw it and said Please ask her to paint me one! and voila just for a few weeks until Xmas you can order one for yourself, right here. You can read the details and specs on my store link, they are hand-painted to order and as such they are all unique and just for you. You c ..read more

Not going to lie, it *might* have escaped my attention that the Fashion Illustration Bootcamp is bang on Mother’s Day, rather than a week after it like I thought.. So apologies to the people who aren’t able to make it because of that – massive DOH on my part. However, I’ve decided to make lemonade and offer a bring-your-mum or bring-your-offspring deal of half price for the bring-along. What better way to spend a Mother’s Day? I’ve had many mother/child attendees before and it’s a lovely thing to see, and to know they can then go home and draw together! Bookings and full info about the Bootca ..read more

I started running my own small fashion illustration classes here in Melbourne in 2010, launching them at the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival that year. Until the pandemic etc I had run them continuously since then. These days face-to-face classes are thin on the ground as my regular venue no longer exists, and I am working on the mega of all mega fully online fashion illustration course. Phew! So this Fashion Illustration Bootcamp workshop, which is a one-day comprehensive introduction to fashion illustration class, is one not to miss as it will be a while before it happens again. I am run ..read more

Yes! Finally an in-person fashion illustration class again! The issue of an ongoing venue for in-person fashion illustration classes is still an issue, but I have found a brilliant temporary answer, so just in time before the “Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse” exhibition closes at the NGV International on April 16th, I am able to run the workshop I have been planning in my head for about 6 months! (Full information here) This full-day (or half day if you skip the gallery) workshop will take inspiration from McQueen’s legendary “Widows of Culloden” collection from Autumn Winter 2006 ..read more

Ah Alessandro, it took me a while to adjust my eye from the glam sexiness of Tom Ford, but once I got there I was THERE. Recent news of Alessandro’s departure from Gucci made me sad, but selfishly, for myself, because he is one of the few designers I can guarantee when I take a first look at a new collection, I know there will be endless things I want to draw. That is rare.  In celebration of his time at Gucci, I’ve released a small selection of four sketches as fine art prints, in A4 and A3 sizes – perfect for Xmas! And, if you buy two from the set there is a 15% discount, and if you bu ..read more

I’m still riding the brandy train since my voice is yet to recover from a week of laryngitis – explain that if you will, grrr. So in the spirit of making lemonade, I bring to Fri-yay drinks another brandy (or preferably, cognac) cocktail. Meet the Sidecar! Did you know one of the legends about the birth of the Sidecar has it set at Harry’s New York Bar in Paris in the 1910s, mixed up by a patron who arrived in a motorcycle sidecar? True that. Well maybe anyway, I like it enough. How to do it: This one’s going to take you: 5 mins It’s going to make you: 1 drink You’ll need to ha ..read more

This week’s Fri-yay cocktail comes to you courtesy of laryngitis, so the Sidecar was bumped to next week and enter the Hot Toddy – a cocktail I love drinking as much for its name as its taste – so saucy! Not just saucy but my favourite type of saucy – simple & saucy. Cos I like my cocktails simple, like my men. This one’s going to take you: 5 mins-ish It’s going to make you: 1 drink You’ll need to have: 3 tbsp brandy (or whisky or bourbon if you prefer) 1tbsp honey 1 cinnamon stick (optional) 1 slice and 1 generous squeeze of lemon (appx 2tsp) ½ cup hot water Yo ..read more

Being Friday and all, it’s cocktail o’ clock at Chez Patsyfox. So, I thought I’d start a brand-new, instant-classic tradition and share some of my favourite cocktails with you. Illustrated pour vous, naturally. Fashion be damned, one of my favourite things to do is to illustrate cocktails – draw ’em, then drink ’em. Santé! This one’s going to take you: 5 mins It’s going to make you: 1 drink You’ll need to have: 1(ish)measure Gin 150ml Cranberry Juice 10ml Lemon Juice Ice Cubes Fresh Cranberries Mint Leaves You’ll need to do: Fill your glass of choice with ice cubes Add gin a ..read more

If you’re down with the structural work that underpins fashion illustration (or not!) then you may like the Exploring Media / Intermediate Fashion Illustration live online course, because it picks up where that left off. While taking bodies and faces to new angles and positions, it explores media techniques of indian ink and watercolour paints to create artistic images, and then uses them to create specific effects of textiles such as fur, shine, and patterns. In four sessions! Yes! Skills can then be taken in a purely emotive art direction, or utilised for visualising fashion collections. Th ..read more