Valentine Balloon

Have a lovely Valentine day with everyone you love!

Illustration Friday - Popularity

An old illustration for a poster for a kids club. It seemed to fit the this weeks theme for Illustration Friday.

They Draw and Cook

A while ago I drew a little something for Illustration Friday (the word was Prepare). I based the idea on an old family recipe for marmalade. I was in the middle of making some myself; well breakfast in our house isn't complete without some homemade marmalade on toast and a cup of tea!

Sarah Melling left a lovely comment suggesting I should submit the illustration to They Draw and Cook. I have been meaning to do something for this brilliant illustration and recipe blog for a while, it was a good reminder (Thank you Sarah), so I did a bit of a re-jig and you can now find it here.

Illustration Friday - Suspense

Alfred's Transformer Fabric Design

Alfred, my youngest son is four years old, he was off school with a cold so he decided he wanted to design a fabric.  Based on his 'Transformer' robot, he drew a transformer car and the transformer robot. What amazed me is how he then takes on board the scanned image, the computer and with very little tutelage, using photoshop, comes up with this. You can see his other designs here.

The Faded Charm of Art Deco

As an exercise, I was trying to emulate the geometric patterning of Art Deco with this design, trying to capture a feeling of the faded glamour of the 1930's.
Then I realised this weeks Spoonflower contest theme is Art Deco, with the stipulation that only four colours are used, so I have adapted the design.

I am not sure whether I prefer this or the original design now.

Edit - A photo of the fabric swatch of the original design.

Leaves

Don't quite know what you'll make of this design.  I wanted to use some loose pen sketches and a fabric with a nod to mid century textiles happened.
I can't decide whether to keep it at a large scale making it more useful for home fabrics or to reduce the scale and it becoming a fabric you might like for something like a crisp summer skirt. What do you think?