Print, Print, Print!

As part of the 'booking a charity' art foundation project I decided to spend the afternoon doing some silk screen printing. The image I printed is a simple drawing I had drawn earlier in the project. As these prints are two colour ( black and a range of other colours) I had to created two silk screens to print from. I really love the effect of these pieces, however a couple of the black prints went a bit blotchy, due to the heavy canvas fabric I was using and the screen being slightly damp!

Better late than never!..

Completely forgot to upload a picture of this years Christmas socks... gorgeous patterns, colours, and ever so cosy!

(Socks from Dorothy Perkins!)

Will be keeping a little bit of christmas alive all year round in these!

New Years resolution #1 ...

So I've decided that my first New Years resolution is to finally get some of my patterns digitally printed onto fabric!

I've found a company that print custom fabric for a very reasonable price ( from $16.20 per yard) which is around  £10.50 a yard! Plus they hold weekly fabric competitions, and once a member of the website you have the option of letting them sell your fabric design for you, with you getting around 10% of the price of sale..... not bad to get you started !


http://www.spoonflower.com/welcome

Website link above!

Cushion cover!

New Year, New projects!

After a busy Christmas and New years I thought I'd ease myself back in textiles and patterns.

I made this simple cushion in fabric I fell in love with. I love the retro and bold feel the print has, and I've even included a chunky gold button as a fastener!

Bits and pieces!

 After a stressful week of portfolio work all Ive got left to do is stick everything down...which should only take about five days! but before I get my double-sided sticky tape out I thought I'd upload a few pieces I found whilst routing through hundreds of  Alevel and foundation sketchbooks!

Circles!

  
I created these patterns as a quick addition to a project I'm working on as part of my Art foundation course!

A pattern from Alevels!

This is a pattern I created as part of my Alevel textiles coursework. This pattern works beautifully as gift wrap!

Patterns, Patterns, Patterns!

Beach huts!

 

I really loved the pink and green pattern i created (shown in the previous post!) so i decided to create this simple beach hut repeat using it!

Autumn Leaves

   

These simple leaf patterns were inspired by the cover page from Country living magazine October 2011 ( the page is shown behind the pattern.) The main reason this page stood out to me was because of the striking effect of the dark pink of the leaves contrasting beautifully with the rusty mustard yellow of the metal, I therefore used shades of these colours within my piece!

More Pegs!

This is another of my peg repeats, this time in a green and purple colour scheme. Ive uploaded two versions of this repeat as I think it works well on a small and large scale!

A bit more A-level Coursework!

These are my final pieces for my gardening themed textile a-level project. I used a range of techniques to apply my fork and trowel repeat pattern on to fabric, and sewed into the majority of them to give texture and add colour!

A bit of A-level Coursework!

Although I made these pieces almost a year ago I'm still in love with the pattern and colours I created! The cushion has the pattern appliqued on, which gives it great texture and the table runner is screen printed for practicality!

Lucky Owls!

I recently went to an exhibition in the Geffrye Museum called 'At Home In Japan - Beyond The Minimal House.' This was a really interesting exhibition as it was jam packed with everything Japanese from kimonos to toothpaste packaging and everything in between! From this exhibition I learnt that owls and cats are believed to be lucky and to prevent malevolent spirits entering the home and causing misfortune... I have therefore created this simple repeat pattern using a couple of sketches of owls that I drew at the exhibition!

Bottled up love! #2

Completely forgot to upload this edit of my perfume bottle repeat! I love the bold and bright citrus greeny yellow background!

.... And after posting this I found another perfume edit that I love the feel of! .... its clear to see that this is my first day as a blogger!

Bottled up love!

I created this repeat from watercolour and biro drawings that I created as part of my  college project  'Intensive Drawing'.

Tea for two!

 I really loved the effect of the geometric style patterned background that I created  on PhotoShop for my peg repeat, so I decided to create this cute and simple teacup and saucer illustration to repeat on it!

Peg me up!

A couple of my patterns using clothes pegs as inspiration!