Country Homes and Interiors Magazine- inspiration!

 The latest version of Country Homes and Interiors flew through my door last week and I've been loving these Spring pages. Beautiful shades of ocre and green. I've been using alot of warm, girlie colours in my work lately, but I'm such a fan of all colour- and these natural shades are also just up my street!........If I had my own house I'd absolutely use that green wallpaper above, really brings the outside, inside! Also love the fact that Spring is just about here..... I saw some little lambs on the train to leeds at the weekend! :)

Another girlswear design

  Another girlswear design for my girlswear brief. I want to draw more owls now, they can be so fun!

Think I'm seeing pink bows in the trees...... 

 

A gorgeous competition!

Just joined this competition- look at whats on offer- gorgeous : )

Follow this link to enter!

An older/teen girlswear design.... making my blog look very pink!!

A quick little moodboard to give a feel of whats out there- Girlswear

 

A very quick little mood board I made for my Millie Loves Rosie brief.. to give me a feel of whats already out there... loved doing this research, so many gorgeous bits of embroidery and detail. :-)

1st Girlswear idea for 'Millie Loves Rosie'

 

My first girlswear design for Millie loves Rosies brief... needs a few more tweeks before I send it off. I'm working between lots of designs, and job hunting so busy, busy! Love working on kidswear design and the brief I've been given is so exciting! :-)

See their website here my russian dolls pattern is in the portfollio section, yay!! And heres their blog its got some very inspirational work on it, including the work of 'Belle and Boo,' which is absolutely gorgeous!

Some painterly Mothers day and Fathers day cards

 

 

Mothers Day and Fathers Day cards I've been developing for Birkett Designs, the top two show the work in progress, and at the bottom are the final designs.

A repeat idea.

 A surface pattern idea I was playing around with last night. The stripes on the right hand side could form a pattern to complement the design on the left. Its still work in progress

A post about colour.....!

I love fresh, vibrant colour..... here are some of my swatches from when I've been testing out colours as I'm painting design ideas. I think theyre worth keeping to help me explore different colour combinations and to work from when doing designs on CAD.

Bob the 3rd!

This little puppy dog visited yesterday, cheered me up so much... all this job hunting is somewhat exhausting.
Thought i'd post this picture up, so it can make whoever sees it smile too! :)

A current mood board above my desk- love it! I'm a massive fan of Boden as you can see...

I need to stop staring at it though.... but who can blame me.... lovely bits and pieces!

Another cats idea for Birkett designs

Above is a design I developed, with a heavier CAD design focus.  Below is another design idea, also for ceramics. 

Below is the idea to go with my previous scotty dogs design.

I love russian dolls!

Really enjoying working on this new pattern. It is a project I am setting myself for my portfollio- I've seen russian dolls everywhere at the moment, they seem to be very much in fashion.

 

The Nutcracker ballet at Londons Collesium

 

I was fortunate enough to see the ballet at Christmas and was in awe with the performance, the colours and the costumes and seeing the magical story of the Nutcracker on stage was incredible. I now feel inspired to do something with ballerinas in a future project, perhaps for a girls birthday card!!

NEW scotty dogs

I had fun with these little scotty dogs!
At the top is the sketchbook page which was then developed.

NEW caravans

Here are some caravan designs I have been playing with whilst completing other projects. I have been given the advice that white backgrounds sell best for china designs, but here chose to experiment with a coloured background.