Colouring in Shells...

All this horrible weather is making me pine for the seaside again, only a few weeks ago I was sat (in the UK) outside this beautiful surf hut...

With a view like this....

Well, you need a cheeky cider in Cornwall, in weather like this!!!



So I started doodling some of my favourite seaside finds.... Shells!!
I love finding shells, and collecting shells, so I thought I'd doodle some shells.

I decided to create a colouring-in pattern (like the colouring-in-cakes I did for the Ideal Home Show), and this is the creation I came up with...

And, this is what it would look like in the kitchen (pass me the colouring crayons)...

Aaahhh - the seaside - possibly my favourite-ist place in the whole wide world!!

October Wallpaper...

Welcome to October (not quite sure where the year has gone!!)

I was asked a couple of weeks ago if I would be interested in doing the Design Juices October Wallpaper download.

Needless to say, I jumped at the chance!

To me October is all about Halloween (and my mums birthday - she's witch you know!!) Everything starts turning orange, and all the pumpkins and vast quantities of chocolate start to appear on the shelves. With that in mind I went VERY Halloween with my October Wallpaper...

If you want to download the wallpaper for yourself just click here it comes in various sizes to fit all types of screens, so take your pick :)

Happy October :)

Fairytales...

Ok, so enough of Christmas stuff.

I found a drawing that I did for someone else, that never got used - I quite like the quirky faces of the fairies, so I thought I'd depart from the Christmas theme - just for now - while we're still in September!!!

I'm thinking I might like this as a pillow or bedspread - well, I probably would have when I was about 7 or 8 :)

And yes, I know she's got a wonky face, but so have I :)

Xmas Berry...

September has been a bit of a manic month, so doodling has had to take a back seat, however, I have managed a bit of doodle nod towards Christmas (which I hate to say it, is coming around sooooooooo quickly!!)

This is the Xmas Berry doodle....

Just Circles...

In a previous blog I mentioned that I was going to be doing a "collection" called Just... I think I also mentioned that I like drawing circles, so I was rather pleased when another design challenge came up to design using circles only, and only 4 colours!!

Needless to say the Wacom pen was out and I was endlessly scribbling away!!

The challenge was to design 3 different patterns, that could all be used as the same collection, and this is my concoction....

I'm thinking tea towels might be quite nice...

The Challenge Cup Challenge...

Having been 'brought up' on Rugby (League and Union) since I was a nipper, I thought I would challenge myself to create a new pattern for this weekend's Challenge Cup Final.

My home town - Warrington - are in the final of the Challenge Cup. A feat which, when I was little, was near-on impossible!!

However, since the whole super league thing, and changing from The Wire, to Warrington Wolves, they seem to keep winning stuff, if it's not the League Leaders Shield, it's the Challenge Cup - so here's hoping they can win it again!

(Although, after last weeks performance against London Broncos I'm slightly worried!! But we wont go into that!!)

I wanted to create a pattern which reflect the proud and celebratory atmosphere that's in the town at the minute - even the town hall has a Warrington Wolves Flag flying...

Anyway, even if you haven't a clue what I'm on about, I hope you like the new pattern. It's totally out of my comfort zone (i.e. it's not the seaside or camper vans!!), plus the colours aren't my usual palette of subdued blues and greys - but that's because the colours of Warrington are Primrose and Blue :)

Just...

So, the Olympics has been and gone :(

The only cure for it, is to doodle some more!! So I've started a very basic collection called "Just..." It does what it says on the tin and over the next few weeks I'll be doodling many patterns. The first couple in the collection are Just...Hearts and Just...Starfish.

I know, more seaside symbols - who doesn't love the seaside though!!!

Just...Hearts

Just...Starfish