With a little help from Jo at the Stew Print Rooms, another project has come to fruition!
Simplified Leaves
has been transformed into wallpaper and now adorns my guest bedroom’s chimney breast.
illustration
Allotment pattern screen printed and made into a deck chair
Finally got around to getting my design off the computer and into the physical world…
Allotment Pattern
Those drawings I did a few weeks back from sketches on the allotment: just made them into a pattern…
I like the community spirit, the hub of creative activity and nurturing. I’d like to see it on a tea towel.
Parsley and Chives
Blue wash, for a china pattern 
- Parsley purple and layered
These illustrations started out as a series of drawings of herbs, this and the bay leaf have made it into pattern form (I used the bay in the canary pattern). I think this one would make a nice china pattern. I might work on the others at some point, there was one of thyme I rather liked.
Simplified Leaves
Having a job finding somewhere to screen print it, wish I’d got on with it whilst I was still a student! It might have to be digitally printed but it seems like a shame. I guess I could send it off somewhere, I went into the art school yesterday and they tried to put me off trying to use the facilities, pointed me in the direction of these printing firms…
Tangled Hearts
I had this idea a while back but have only just got around to creating the pattern. I was thinking about hearts and attachments… the people I loved and the people they loved who I might not even know, I had a picture in my head of a tangle of love connections. Initially I thought about the tubes turning into hooks and hooking onto other hearts sometimes, because the people you love don’t always love you back but then I thought this could be represented by the colours – the red turning to blue as an indication of the direction of love flowing like deoxegenated blood flowing into the heart and red oxegenated blood flowing out of it.
Allotment life
I’ve been hanging about on my local allotment, drawing, photographing bits and pieces. I’ve worked up a few of the sketches to these illustrator drawings, with a view to either making a story book or a short animation. I’d like to animate it, but I do need to get a good story together first… anyone got any ideas?
Patterns
One nice thing about not having any paid work right now… I get to finish off all the projects I started and didn’t finish. I would really like to get some of my patterns printed onto fabric or wallpaper and into shops.
The other thing I’ve been meaning to do for a while – get my films onto my tango website: http://www.metrotango.co.uk/gallery.html
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