Swapsies

'Journey' by Nicky Linzey

A (very long) while ago Nicky sent me a print of some of her work for no other reason than I'd said that it was beautiful. I'd been meaning to send something nice her way for ages as a thank you and just before Christmas I sent her the pouch below. I still look at the swallow print everyday and I still love it, thanks Nicky!

Handprinted pencil case and gift tags (photo by Nicky)

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and see you in 2017! I'm looking forward to lots of new projects and good stuff for the shop; how about you, what are you looking forward to in the new year?

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Celandine

Celandine

A member of the buttercup family, apparently these sunny flowers are named from the Greek for Swallow (chelidon), blooming as the swallows return for the summer. If you feel like making something sunny, this design is up in my spoonflower shop and available in 9 different kinds of cloth!

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Barn Swallows

Birds of a Feather..

This repeat design of Barn Swallows was adapted digitally from the original Illustration Friday watercolour for the feather contest at Spoonflower. These birds and this colour remind me of the time of year when the night sky doesn't get darker than indigo until after midnight - one of the few pros of northern life!

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Ditsy

At Spoonflower this week everyone's designing ditsy prints. I was definitely getting into the spirit of it and being really ditsy.. and indecisive but that's normal :) I did a lot of drawing and painting, toing and froing, and found ditsy prints are quite hard to keep fresh and will happily evolve into your gran's old wallpaper if you don't keep your eye on them.


See?

I decided to simplify the colours and here's what I came up with:

Summer Meadow

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Have a look at the other designs and vote for some good ones here!

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Into the Blue

Into the blue.

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These birds are soaring into the Spoonflower blue! This colour is so reminiscent of the 50's and 60's, I used a pattern of white dots to shade the clouds that many pop artists used in that era. This contest was palette limited to black and white, spoonflower blue and one other colour.

See the other entries and choose your favourites here!

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Illustration Friday: Surrender

Summer Returns

The swallows will have to surrender to their instinct to fly north for the summer. I'm looking forward to that, it's freezing here! You can have a look at all the other Surrender illustrations here!

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