Saturday 28 September 2013

Cream of mushroom soup


I do love my mushrooms

so was just having a bit of a play with some fine liners, and here you go:

available on spoonflower:

White:http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/2443327
Beige:http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/2443301

Friday 27 September 2013

Flamingos!

Another sketchdaily task - flamingos

which i then turned into a wee pattern

Available on spoonflower: http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/2484000

Wednesday 25 September 2013

Unusually bright patterns

some new patterns i’ve been working on today 


- started from a tile i found whilst making things for my other blog definepattern - here is the actual post



- i don’t know where the colour came from, just grabbed a bunch of pens, pencils, and my water colours and went to town on it.


and of course theyre available on spoonflower! 
Purple : http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/2435109
Orange: http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/2435157

Saturday 21 September 2013

Manx Sandcastles

Orignally a sketchdaily task, i kept it going a bit...
clockwise from top left
1) Falcon Hotel - Douglas
2) Castle Mona - Douglas

3) Tower of Refuge - Douglas

4) Peel Castle - Peel

Saturday 14 September 2013

Sketch Daily - Fox

SketchDaily 14/09 - Foxes. 

I wanted to learn how to do hair… so i looked up some tutes, and… well…. this happened.

Thursday 5 September 2013

Chinese 1, pattern 40.

My version of a classic, from a classic The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones.
Chinese 1, pattern 40.

available on spoonflower: http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/2374220

Manx Flora - Hydrangea #2

Manx Flora #4 - Blue Hydrangea,
been pressing some of the local flora to have a play with, 
It’s weird, i thought hydrangea were like a litmus paper plant, thats’s what we used to call them when we were kids… but here, you get every colour imaginable.
available on spoonflower in as little as 8x8" squares

Wednesday 4 September 2013

Chinese 1, pattern 10

My version of a classic, from a classic The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones.
Chinese 1, pattern 10.

Available on spoonflower http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/2372873