Pattern Play: A Simple Block Printed Pattern

この記事を日本語で読む It was nice to be able to squeeze this pattern play on a busy day. Starting with a doodle, I just carved a block of rubber into this simple shape and repeated stamping…

Design Process: Fan Tree Woodland Collection

この記事を日本語で読む It's been a while since I created a new surface pattern design. I had no confidence in designing in collections, so I always made excuses and procrastinated desig…

Rubber Stamps and Floral Design

I've designed two floral patterns using the rubber stamping technique. It was just another experiment, but I made some little envelopes with those designs, and it was fun. Co…

Block Printing Illustration

I made a block printing sample. The image is taken from an old picture I took. The size of the wood block was too small (postcard size) so I couldn't carve the details...!

Cats Drawing

I tried to draw a lots of cats with only my memories. It's an experimental drawing, trying different styles, medium and surfaces, etc. It was fun but frustrating at the same …

Block Printing and New Pattern Design

I've been designing new patterns for my shop on Spoonflower and I'm trying a new approach to create patterns - it's making rubber stamps. It's a very analogue …

Sample Weave: Plain Weave Checks

Here's my sample weaving project with rigid heddle loom. I tried to do things systematically and first thing I did was selecting yarns and made several yarn wrappings to find…

Colourway experiment and yarn wrap

I've been looking for nice colourways and thought, I could spend a whole day doing this. And I also tried knitting using one of those colour combinations but it ended up a di…

Like Woven With Colour Paper

I made the below colour mixture using those five colours. I put the sheet on the wall and stood at a distance. Then I found it interesting because all colours mixed in a nice way …

Experiment for Surface Pattern Design

この記事を日本語で読む I've experimented with new pattern designs. My desk is pretty messy as always, but this means I'm enjoying the creative process and entirely focused ;) I lik…