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.
patterns
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…
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.
black birds and piracanthus
They are being careless today, dropping berries because there are so many to be had. I love the way they vanish from their beaks, now-you-see-it now-you-don’t little flashes of orange. The black birds are the greediest and cheekiest. Wolf them down they do.
cherubs
http://www.umbrellaprints.com.au/
http://olivemanna.com/55-stationery
http://printpattern.blogspot.com/2007/11/designer-rachel-cave.html) that perhaps the patterns need to be a bit simpler… not so much detail. So this is the latest, cherubs against a starry sky. I was inspired by a church visited in Lithuania.
I just tried another colour combination, wasn’t convinced by the last one, although I think it would look much nicer printed than it does on screen.
church… can’t remember the name. will try and find out.
more patterns
The cherry blossom over water pattern is being printed onto wrapping paper tomorrow – very exciting! I’ve added some coy carp to give it a focus and something cute. I have three other patterns now that I think are also ready for print if these ones go well. The canary pattern is quite appropriate to Norwich, being our football team. The others are quite a random collection of images, which you don’t really see until closer inspection…
