Latest Fabric Swatches

Here are my new 15 fabric swatches from Spoonflower.

Quite a few people liked the tea-towel design that I did, so I thought I would do a fabric without the calendar. The colours have come out a bit different, the birds don't stand out as much, it could be the fabric [I ordered Kona cotton this time].

I did another design using just the birds - all in a jumble.

And one with leaves and background without birds.

This one was for the resolutions contest. The words were created by hand with pens. I used stencils and stamps for some of them.

There was a mitten contest, although I didn't enter with this one.

This one was designed for a cheater quilt contest

And some of the fabrics are available as separate yardage in a bigger scale

The honesty plant was inspiration for this fabric

And this one was inspired by the colours on an autumn tree

Bee eater birds were the inspiration behind the next two

I was working on a floral idea for a border print for this one, although this one is part of a full repeating pattern and not a border pattern

All fabrics available at Spoonflower

The bird and leaf designs can be found here

The cheater quilt fabrics

Autumn Trees can be found in the tree collection

Floral designs are here

Bee Eater fabrics

New Year resolutions is in the miscellaneous collection

Altered Collage

Remember the Mona collage from last Wednesday? I wasn't going to do anything further with it but

Carin from Queeniepatch wondered where it was going and it got me thinking, why not? I uploaded it to my tablet and created a few more layers for it, digital ones this time. Is it better or worse?

Exotic Fairy

The Illustration Friday challenge is exotic.

Created on an android tablet. I used some embroidery work for her clothes and skeleton leaves for wings.

Flower Collage

Another collage from my sketchbook.

Aquamarkers, Posca pens, torn up text, flower drawn with liner pen.

Mona Collage

I did this with the sketchbook challenge in mind which is 'sketching with collage.'

Actually I didn't sketch any of the parts so I don't know that it will qualify for that particular challenge. I did paint the background though with aquamarkers and posca pens. I'd been having a clear out of old art magazines and I thought I would use some of the images.

Textured Landscape Art Quilt

A small A4 art quilt.

I first textured the fabric with Golden course molding paste and cut snippets from a page in a book which were glued along the hill line. It was painted with inktense blocks, apart from the sky. I used bamboo wadding to sandwich between the top and backing fabric. Stitching was applied around the main elements, then further stitching on the nearest meadow and the sky. I was a bit worried about the sewing machine stitching through the texture so more stitching was applied by hand on the hills. The binding was also textured and painted.

Yellow and Orange Flowers

Created on a tablet - Samsung Galaxy Note

Dancer

A 'tablet' drawing arranged on a fabric embroidered background.

Bird Collage

I showed the first stages of the collage yesterday and I finished it with a fabric bird, stitched and a bead for an eye.

Various WIP

WIP - an acrylic painted abstract, collaged

WIP - a collage. I painted the middle of the paper with gesso, then stuck on some paper from a book cut in the shape of leaves. I then painted it green. This was a mistake as I should have painted it before sticking as it puckered. But it doesn't look bad now that it is stitched.

WIP - page in a sketchbook. Drawn lines with real skeleton leaves stuck to it. I can't make my mind up whether to leave this as is or add more to it.

Scary Creature and Scribble Bird

I drew the scary creature above in December when reindeer's were on my mind. I'm glad they don't look like this.

And a scribbly bird on a real sky.

Orange Fish

Digital [android tablet] art

More Art Buttons

I've been making more art buttons, probably for a new book I'm making.

For the blue buttons above I used clear buttons and art work.

I used some big buttons for these two, unfortunately I didn't read the words on the bit of book page before I used it, it'll have to be on a sad page.

These were some of the patterns I used for a fabric design. Clear buttons and inkjet print.

More clear buttons and art work.

Do you want to make some? See the tutorial on how to make them.

Alone in the Woods

Berry Nice

Can you tell I still love using the mirror image tool in sketchbook pro?

Which Reef?

There is a design contest coming up on Spoonflower for a fabric design on the Great Barrier Reef. I've done two possibilities but which one shall I enter, the more realistic one or the doodley one, although they are both quite busy.

What do you think? Click on image to enlarge.

Two kinds of Primulas?

The real flowers in the photo are primula vialli, my flower drawings were just made up, doodling on the tablet again.

Little Landscape Quilts

My A4 art quilts are finished and have been sent off for the Little Landscapes Journal Quilts challenge. They will be judged then go on a tour at the Spring Quilt Festival.

I used inketense blocks to paint the background, the hare was an inkjet print [t-shirt type] and I've hand embroidered extensively. The other quilt is similar except it is a view through a camera lens. The camera and hand was also an inkjet print and the background as the previous quilt.

This is a digital version I was experimenting with originally. 

Three pictures make a Fourth

A funny face

A plant

A patterned background

A patterned background, a plant and funny face