New Surface Pattern Designs and Products!
It’s been a while since I’ve drawn for fun. Since I work as an illustrator full time, I am usually only drawing for commissions — which is the dream of course. It’s the dream, but it does mean that I don’t often have the time or interest in drawing just for indulgence. Most people have their go-to subject for “fun drawing” - doodling cats, eyes, flowers, squiggle animals etc. When I was little I always drew shoes. I probably had a drawing eyes and faces phase too.
Nowadays I love creating patterns. There is something so satisfying about a successful repeat design. The Edit Colour > Recolour Artwork panel in Adobe Illustrator is one of my favourite things to play with. You can just shuffle through colour schemes in different placements until it feels right.
Websites like Redbubble and Society6 make it so EASY to upload designs and see how they might look in real life. Spoonflower gives designers the option of printing their own fabric or selling it to the unique fabric loving community worldwide. It’s certainly not about making money, it’s about seeing something you had a hand in the creation of existing in the world. Maybe even someone out there will love it!
Here are some recent favourites uploaded to Redbubble —
Click through each image to see it available on over 40 products:
And for those of you who love to SEW:
You can click through below to see repeat fabrics of mine available for purchase with Spoonflower:
Hang in there, everyone! Keep creating.
Fabrics & Fashion - Print Design for Keshet
As many of you know, I was the Art Director at Keshet Design for several years. In addition to working on many of the print designs in house, I also designed a few from scratch. The Keshet target audience loves BRIGHT colourful clothing and is not afraid to mix and match. Since it is a proudly Tasmanian company, we choose the dragonfly that I drew in Cradle Mountain to be the main feature for this cotton print. It was available in SO many fabulous outfits!
Images via Keshet’s Instagram | Photos by Amy Brown
Last Winter Season I designed another print which was inspired by Frida Kahlo!
Photo by Matt Palmer
Photo by Matt Palmer
Crafternoon
Sewing a paint brush roll up and an eco roll up during a lovely crafternoon.
It's the very beginning Spring in Tasmania and with a jam packed season ahead of me I decided to take a night off and craft with friends. It gave me the chance to bust out the sewing machine and make something! For this I used the fabrics that I designed and printed using Spoonflower.
You can find this fabric here- https://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/4502943-sweeping-botanicals-by-bermudezbahama
My friends sewed useful things like patches and other mending, but I desperately wanted to make one roll up for my paintbrushes and another eco roll up for my purse to carry my fork and straw. Here is how it turned out. I apologize for the wrinkles and ROUGH sewing. I don't claim to be good at sewing by any means.
There I am in the spoon trying to take a photo of this with my phone.
Perfect for my purse!
I am pretty pleased with both!
The next chance I get I will make little edged napkins to match! I am feeling very crafty right now! SO many craft ideas... so little time.