Pattern Rally and whistling kettles...Happy Sunday all

Hi everyone how are you?  I hope you are all enjoying your weekends?  I was feeling a bit better today so went to a local shopping center with my dad who was visiting..Got to do a lot of window shopping (there are some amazing clothes out there at the moment, great patterns everywhere)! Came home with a gorgeous duck egg blue whistling kettle *love it* and some art supplies :-) However all that excitement tired me out and I had to go to bed for 3 hours afterward!! I can't wait to feel better! Ugh!

I wanted to share with you that one of my new floral pattern designs is over at the illustration Rally blog right now in the current pattern rally that they have going on, the theme is 'Floral'. Go take a look at all the great designs that have been submitted so far.

Illustration Rally

Good evening folks :-)

Illustration Friday - Soaked

Good evening folks, how are you? I have been home sick all week with a kidney infection (boo)..So Its been a cycle of drawing/sleeping/being ill/drawing/sleeping... I'm REALLY looking forward to feeling better but the upside is that I got to make some fun patterns...There's always an upside :-)

This one was inspired by Illustration Fridays word of the week 'Soaked'; my idea is that if your going to get soaked these are the kinda things you want to be wearing..Unless your someplace very cold of course in which case I would suggest a winter wetsuit!

I wish you all a very happy weekend, cheerio for now :-)

November leaves

Autumn is well and truly here and winter is approaching fast, the trees have turned to gorgeous yellows,oranges and reds. I love the colours this time of year, each day at work I've been kicking myself as I keep forgetting my camera and I really would love to record the change of season. As I have mentioned before I work in a rural location and get to be outside quite a lot of the day, so I have been noticing the change in the environment more than I ever have done before. So today after work I went about in the dark (as you do) and collected leaves to bring home to record and play with..

I actually came home with SO many leaves, I just couldn't stop collecting them....this is a warning, many leaf photographs to follow..!

Then there was the fun of photographing the different shapes and colours together...

Nice aren't they?

So after playing around a bit scanning different leaf combination's together I decided to create a pattern, it took me quite a while but I'm really happy with it! This is the first time I've created a pattern by scanning items directly (instead of scanning photos or drawings). Here it is, I hope you like it, I do, it's been a a fun Tuesday evening activity!

Have a good evening all! :-)