Winter Cool - Art Everyday Month

I keep trying to sit down and focus on designing a few Christmas cards but I think I'm in denial - try as I might I keep getting drawn to cool colours and flowers and butterflies and pretty organic things. Christmas is already everywhere in the shops and on the internet and I'm feeling a bit overloaded! So I'm going for soft neutrals; greys teals and pinks. Cleansing the palette a little before the main course of colour!

Oh and just found this site via the lovely Christine. Art Everyday Month will hopefully give me a daily boost of creativity which is just what I need right now!

On a Roll

Full Circle

I used to love drawing patterns as a kid over and over again on graph paper my dad used to bring home from work. After a week working solid on websites I needed a rest so sat with my sketch book and a bundle of books and magazines and just doodled. I need a range of fabric designs for my journals and with the We Make fair only 6 weeks away the pressure is on! Simple line drawings scanned into Illustrator and coloured. I am 10 years old again and in heaven!

Chameleon

I've lost count of the amount of times I have change my online identity over the last few years. I've always had an idea in the back of my mind how I want to be seen as an artist but never quite figured out how to do it. I have too many conflicting ideas and my style changes with the wind. But in the last 12 months I have recognised this change as a progression rather than indecision and for once I feel like all my work, as different as it may be, as more unified than ever - like all the pieces have finally slotted in to place.

So of course this required one last change for my websites. I say last, knowing full well it won't be but I will change them in the future because I am ready to move forward, not because I can't decide which style path to go down.

It's taken me a while (15 years in fact) but I have got there :D and now all the fun stuff can begin....