Fifi Yellow portfolio by Fiona Baanah-Jones

Fifi Yellow Portfolio

Fifi Yellow

Exploring Creativity beyond the lines

Fifi Yellow is the work of artist and illustrator Fiona Baanah-Jones. Fiona creates inspiring, purposeful illustrations which focus on creativity. She believes that creativity is a gift that should be appreciated and promoted in a positive way.

Fifi Yellow’s illustrations have an abstract style with the use of patterns, lines, colours, and shapes. It explores the aspect of being open and expressive through creativity. They are inspired by photographs. The structure in patterns and rhyme creates ambiguity in the unknown using pen and paper.

Fifi Yellow’s niche is visual art. It started when Fiona discovered a love for visual art and drawing after several years away from creating. Fiona has valuable knowledge of visual art as a university graduate. With a good understanding of creative practices and artistic techniques, Fiona has focused on various areas of illustration to reinforce her passion for art and drawing. It focuses on exploring creativity beyond the lines- as a valuable aspect of life.

Fifi Yellow’s goal is to promote creativity through imagination and endless possibilities. It aims to engage new audiences with high-quality, engaging illustrations via social media. Creativity should be accessible to all, visually appealing and memorable

Visual artist and illustrator from Thornton Heath, UK

Contents SPICEY HOT PEPPERS 4 SCRATCH MARKS 10 PHOENIX 12 LOVE 17 SNOWFLAKE 21 UGLY DUCKLING 24 SURREY STREET 30 FLOWERS AND PLANTS 41 INKTOBER 2023 46 THANK YOU 52 CONNECTION 58 OTHER SELECTED WORK 60

SPICEY HOT PEPPERS

Illustrations

Original illustration from Inktober 2023Spicey (2023)

I have created a series of drawings to show chilli peppers in different colours. I created 7 new illustrations to accompany the original illustration from Inktober 2023.

Warm Orange (top right)

Cool Blue (bottom left)

Light blue and gold (above)

Ever Green (top left)

Warm Yellow (top right)

Purple (above)

Lime green and mauve (bottom right)

Spicey Hot Peppers (2024) Spicey Hot Peppers (2024)

Patterns

I have created a series of illustrations with the Spicey Hot Peppers and Flames (Inktober 2023). I have used various colours. This complements the full Spicey Hot Peppers illustrations.

Original (top left)

Warm Orange (top right)

Light blue and gold (bottom right)

Spicey Hot Peppers Patterns (2024)

Spicey Hot Peppers Patterns

Cool Blue

Ever Green

Warm Yellow

(From top left, below and bottom) Next page Purple (above) Lime green and mauve (below)

SCRATCH MARKS

I have created a series of illustrations using the Scratchy illustration (Inktober 2023). I have added a layer with deep scratches on top of the markmaking to create a shadow.

Yellow (top left)

Black (top right)

Blue (middle left)

Red (middle right)

Purple (bottom left)

Original- Scratchy (from Inktober 2023) Scratch Marks (2023)- White (above) Orange (bottom left) Green (bottom right) Scratch Marks (2023)-

PHOENIX

I used the phoenix drawing from the Rising Sun illustration (Inktober 2023) to create a series of patterns. I used the colours red, black and white.

Above- Phoenix

Below- The orignal illustration- The Rising Sun and the Phoenix (Inktober 2023)

Next page- Phoenix (2023)

Left page- Phoenix red and black (2023) Right page- Phoenix black and white (2023)

LOVE

I created a series of Love illustrations. This was done for Valentine’s Day. It is about the different types of love. I used varied colour schemes for each illustration.

Above- Phoenix black and white (2023) Love illustration 1 (2023)

Above- Love illustration 2 Below- Love illustration 3 Above- Love illustration 4 Below- Love illustration 5

SNOWFLAKE

I have created a series of illustrations and backgrounds. I have used various mark-making from the Frost illustration (Inktober 2023) to add texture.

Illustrations

Top right- Frost (from Inktober 2023)

Above- Snowflake illustration 1

Above- Love illustration 6

Patterns

Above- Snowflake illustration 2; Below- Snowflake illustration 3 Top right- Snowflake pattern 1 (blue and white) Middle left- Snowflake pattern black and pink Middle right- Snowflake pattern purple Bottom left- Snowflake pattern red

UGLY DUCKLING

I have created a series of patterns with my ugly duckling. I used Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop to create the individual ducklings, adding various colours and pattern layouts. I flipped the patterns from opposite sides.

Top left- Original ugly duckiling illustration (2023) Below- Ugly ducking pattern (white, grey, red, yellow, blue) Top left- Ugly duckling illustration canopy (gold, yellow, orange, green, brown) Below- Ugly duckling pattern canopy

Top left- Ugly duckling high contrast (neon yellow, purple, pink, violet, mauve) (2024) Below- Ugly duckling high contrast pattern Top leftUgly duckling disco lights (black, pink, purple, violet) (2024) Below- Ugly duckling disco lights pattern

Top left- Ugly duckling black white and grey (2024) Below-Ugly Duckling pattern black white and grey Top left-Ugly duckling gold sliver bronze (2024) Below-Ugly duckling pattern gold sliver bronze

SURREY STREET

Illustrations

I have created a series of digital posters of Surrey Street Market. They include the main aspects of the local community of Croydon and the significance of what it is like being in a street market.

Previous pageSurrey Street digital poster (2023) This pagetop right: A box of oranges Bottom right: Cash Carrying

Top right: Clothes Stalls Bottom right: Customers Top right: Fruit Stalls Bottom right: Joseph’s Veg

Patterns

I created a series of backgrounds with my Surrey Street logo. I used a range of colours to the background with the white logo.

Top right: Paper Bags Bottom right: Rice, Beans & Carribean Food Top- Surrey Street logo pattern Bottom- Surrey Street logo pattern black and white

Top- Surrey Street logo pattern grey

Bottom- Surrey Street logo pattern dark green

Top- Surrey Street logo pattern lime green

Bottom- Surrey Street logo pattern gold

Top- Surrey Street logo pattern orange Bottom- Surrey Street logo pattern red orange Top- Surrey Street logo pattern navy Bottom- Surrey Street logo pattern light blue

FLOWERS AND PLANTS

I created this artwork using Adobe Illustrator. I used the vectors to form the flowers and plants. I used various textures to create depth in the image. I altered the colours to create variations.

Top- Flowers and plants (original edit)

Bottom left- Flowers and plants high vis

Bottom right- Flowers and plants trippy disco lights

Suurey Street logo pattern pink

PATTERNS

I have used the flowers and plants to create a series of patterns. The shapes have a visual effect on the compositions, which adds a textured look.

Top left- Flowers and plants yellow submarine Top right- Flowers and plants mauve Bottom left- Flowers and plants midnight blue Bottom right- Flowers and plants salmon sushi Flowers and plants pattern 1 (poppies, succulant plants and daisies)

Flowers and plants pattern 2 (poppies and succulant plants) Flowers and plants pattern 3 (succulant plants and daises)

INKTOBER 2023

This was my first drawing challenge. I completed all 31 drawings using the official prompt list. I used a varied range of colours and textures. Inktober has allowed me to build and expand on my drawing skills.

Top left- Shallow

Top right- Dream: Moon and clouds

Middle left- Rush

Middle right- Golden spiral

Bottom- Fire

Top- Celestial Bottom-Trail of ink

Top left- Massive

Top right- Sparkle

Middle left- Beast

Middle right- Remove

Bottom- Dangerous

Top left- Chains

Top right- Plump

Middle left- Saddle

Middle right- Demon

Bottom- Angel

Top left- Dagger

Top right- Castle

Middle left- Wander

Middle right- Fortune Cookies

Bottom- Bounce

Top left- Toad

Top right- Drip

Middle left- Map of hand

Middle right- Dodgeball (dodge)

Bottom- Spider

THANK YOU

I have created a series of floral illustrations which demonstrate gratitude and appreciating the people you are nearest and dearest. These illustrations are greeting card designs.

Top- Thank You card 1; Thank You card 6 Bottom- Thank You card 8; Thank You card 11; Thank You card 14 Next 2 pages- Thank You card 7, Thank You card 15

TopThank You Card 2; Thank You Card 3.

MiddleThank You Card 5; Thank You Card 10.

BottomThank You Card 12; Thank You Card 13.

Next 2 pagesThank You Card 4; Thank You Card 9.

CONNECTION

It is about the link between abstract and visual aspects of images. The mandala is a symbol of being expressive through the use of images. It is about being open and expressive to explore the possibilities of my creativity.