Plans: MATS Part B & moving out of my comfort zone...

A new month full of plans and ways to get out of my comfort zone...

I'm going away tomorrow until the end of the month but I'll be packing lots of materials and books and setting up a little workspace for myself. It's supposed to be a holiday but I've so much to do. I will be making time to relax though for sure.

 Lilla Rogers' course Make Art That Sells starts today and I am signed up for Part B. I found MATS A very challenging so I am feeling a little nervous! The main challenge for me is not to lose confidence when I see everyone else's amazing work. I feel better prepared for that though this time round.

A piece I did for MATS A

This month I also plan to spend some time exploring characters and lettering as well as further developing my abstract floral watercolours... 

Hope you have a fab week!
Love
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