How Do You Fix a Sandwich?

RobotGirl is out of her element in the kitchen! 

Took me a while but I finally finished painting my Robot Girl in Illustrator and Photoshop! It was hard, but I learned a lot. Once I was done, I couldn't believe my eyeballs. Huh, the things you can do with a computer. I guess I better stop fartin' around now, though. I'm supposed to be doing my homework. I'm taking a course called The Sellable Sketch by Michelle Fifis. She's awesome. 

Bye for now.

Going A Little Stripey

I was playing around with stripes and came up with this design that I really liked. Except the colours didn't go with my original design but I really liked them. So I thought I'd try and lighten the motif. Love that aqua! When I was little, my mum bought me a Rocky and Bullwinkle colouring book along with a giant pack of crayons. I coloured every single picture a beautiful shade of aqua. 

This is definitely not the finished arrangement. I was just trying to put something together fast to check the colours out. With a little more fiddling it could work for a baby print. Summer hat, little dress. T-shirt onsie.

And here's a stripe with stronger colours. I think this would be cute as a reversible beach bag with a white, cotton rope cord woven through large silver grommets. Could maybe lose some of the red. It's been really fun experimenting and learning how to use my Adobe Illustrator program although designing is much harder than I thought it was going to be. 

Summer Fun!

I'm taking The Ultimate Guide to Repeats Workshop, taught by Michelle Fifis of Pattern Observer.  She's a marvelous instructor and I love the class! Anyway, here's what I've learned. This type of pattern is called a tossed layout. It's supposed to look random but it was hard, hard, hard, because my little inflatable seahorse was... I'll say randomly challenged. But if you know me you'll know that's not what I said. It began with four days all to myself. The first day I worked for 16 hours. Pah! Then had to start all over again the next day and the next day after that. So glad my family wasn't here to witness this. I would have never heard the end of it. OCD comes to mind. The finished repeat is 11 x 11 inches square and here it is in four colour ways. I'll be spending the next week working on some coordinating fabrics to go with it. I think I got this.  

See you soon!

A Big Splash of Colour!

A Repeat to Remember

So, I managed to learn how to create my first design repeat and here it is. Not for sale, only a jumping off point for the real pattern. But Lordy, lemme tell ya,  that was the hardest thing I ever did!  Trouble is, now that it's over I don't even know how I did it or how I'll do it again. I haven't been sleeping at all, just dreaming designs and working twelve hours a day on the computer trying to figure it all out. I don't know how the heck people do this for a living but I want in.   

These are my uploaded Spoonflower colour ways. I know it's not the greatest looking pattern but it could be with a little work. I already have some ideas for a collection. Even though this is just my rough illustration, I like the style of it. I think the idea could work nicely with coordinating fabrics.  

I kind of like the red. With lighter contrasting fabrics it would look good in kitchens, aprons and oven mitts or as outdoor furniture, pillows and stuff. 

Oh, I also learned how to make the new Bunny background on my blog!

Something Dreamy This Way Comes!

I'm on a new path this year and concentrating on fabric design. Something I've always wanted to do and I'm finally taking the plunge with classes to learn how. So I'll be focusing a lot on drawing this summer. And since I love florals I shouldn't have too much trouble finding my creative centre. 

 I'll be sitting in the shade drinking inspiration from my garden, so flooded with lovely shapes, colours and

fat little succulents for my eye to devour.

There's exciting chartreuse beside

steely cobalt blues next to

trilling hot pinks. What a feast!

And who can resist a sunrise of colour packed in a daffodil.

Then there's my favourite, a cloudless sea of forget-me-nots to paint the sky.

 Of course Clare also gets a new path this year so she can concentrate on running through the garden. Something she's always wanted to do. 

Silly ol' Clarebear.

Something New!

One of the things I've always wanted to do is fabric design. So now I've finally started a class to learn how with Adobe Illustrator. Here's my first crack at working with colour, not so great but it's a start.  

There's a lot to learn and I'm hoping soon I'll be able to use my illustrations as jumping off points for some children's fabrics, 

or stationary, 

or journal covers.

 Bunny girls on kiddy jean jackets? Cute!