Play: Florals, watercolours and layers

This week...

My obsession with layers continues... I'm spending lots of time playing with watercolours - I love the accidents and imperfections. 

I'm using a variety of media: Derwent Inktense pencils, watercolours, gouache, felt tips, white gel pen, fountain pens and my Derwent Graphik Paint markers arrived yesterday so I've added these into the mix too now. 

I love painting circles and then drawing floral motifs over them. It's fun and relaxing. 

And here's some jumpers for the Christmas collection I'm working on.

I really love working like this on paper. The challenge is to create this look in Illustrator! 

More on Friday,

Frankie x

Plans: Christmas, paint, pens and lots of birds

Hello Monday...

Here's what I'm looking forward to creating this week...

Christmas in February
I was doodling around towards the end of last week and ended up creating these vintage style Christmas baubles with gouache, Stabilo felt tips and my white gel pen. My minor obsession with scanning and tracing resulted in me creating this repeat in Illustrator that I'm really pleased to say has retained some of the original hand drawn qualities and now I hope to create a collection based around this pattern by the end of the week.

From this...

to this.

Birds... Everywhere!

I have so many bird motifs to work with! They've been hanging around for a couple of weeks now so I need to do something with them. 

Playing around in Photoshop with my painted birds...

I love this little tweeter and this palette.

   

This fella started out life in my sketchbook...

And this bird is part of a design I'm creating for my Pattern Camp collection...

So I'm hoping to have some of these completed by the end of this week.

In other news I'm patiently waiting for two very exciting products to arrive. I've order myself a pack of Derwent Graphik Line Painter Pens and some J Herbin ink in white. 

So here's to a productive week! 

Frankie x