Tuesday 30 March 2010

New Watercolour Butterfly Designs for Next Girlswear


Here are two handpainted watercolour designs I have done for Next Girlswear available here. Its tricky to produce artworks which have a true watercolour quality that can be commerically outputted with standard screen inks. I've developed a way of creating this kind of design which gives it a true painterly quality while only requiring standard output process with a limited number of screens.

Monday 22 March 2010

Next Boys Embroidered Triceratops T-shirt now in store

Above, the original design created in Photoshop


I'm happy with the way this one has turned out almost exactly how I designed it. Available at Next

Tuesday 16 March 2010

Designing Winter Pyjamas


A childrens pyjama set I designed today for winter 2010-11. I'm pleased with how this particular plaid turned out.

Monday 15 March 2010

Revamping My Kitchen

We've been planning and saving to fit a new kitchen for almost a year and when the time came, we had a massive rethink and decided to have a revamp on the cheap instead. Integral to the plan was ripping down an unsightly, cramped wall unit and putting these Ikea shelves up instead. I already had most of the storage items now on display, bit I treated myself to the cornish stripe pasta jar and the red lantern.

With the other simple changes we've made it feels like a new kitchen, and the best bit is the money is stil in the bank :) more pics on flickr