Earlier in the year I helped my brother in designing a quick logo for the University of Bristol’s ‘The Cell’ CMM society of which my brother is secretary. It’s nice to see it on a shirt.

In the town in which I live, the Malvern Hills conservators are holding a competition asking residents to design a poster to promote responsible dog ownership, this is my entry. I wanted to keep the tone light and playful as well as getting a message across to the viewer. What better way to achieve this than a hi-fiving dog!??

I’ve updated my black and white Bird of Paradise pattern I created before Christmas with some colour, this makes me feel very summery, I’d love to put it on a dress.

Hmmmmm…. I’m currently trying to capture the essence of ‘Responsible dog ownership on the Malvern Hils’ for a local competition.

So I’ve perfected my balloon pattern with a little help from Photoshop, the repeat can be seen in my portfolio.

Another project which I’ve been working on the last few days is a fabric pattern design for Clothkits and their current Goodwood vintage competition. I’ve had a bit of a thing about buttons for a long time, so I’ve put together design featuring my current favourites from the button jar. I think the title of Make do and Mend fits in with this rather nicely.

Oh the woes of a pattern that won’t repeat. I thought I’d put V.1 online though as I want to start showing more of my handrawn stuff on the website also, I’ve wanted to do some work with hot air balloons for a while but kept faffing about how to do it. I’ve learnt a few things, I drew my image on A4 paper, cut it in half both ways and stuck it back together again, then filled in the middle of the design. The theory is the repeats are then sorted out for you (if you’re accurate). I know now to do any cross hatching, BEFORE the image in split in half (duh) and also trying to accurately scan an image which must be A4 on an A4 maximum scanner is likely to be difficult, so maybe a smaller piece of paper would be better in the long run. I like the design so it’s on to V.2 today.

I’ve been doing a short screen printing evening class over the past few weeks at Hereford college of Arts (where I completed my foundation year). It finished last week but I wanted to put some of the most interesting experiments to come out of the 5 week course online. It was really good to take some of my granny square cut outs to the next level and hopefully if I sign up for the next course starting in September I can develop this idea further. It would be lovely to develop a range of decorative items made out of the fabric I’ve printed by hand, so watch this space!

A quick birthday card I’ve whipped up for my little brother’s 20th birthday on Friday.