Karen MacAllister Blog : July 2013

31.7.13

24.7.13

21.7.13

Mr Rabbit

Messing about with a painting from my series of rabbit illustrations and repeating within an app.

20.7.13

Admiring a repeat pattern

I bought this little vest top today from H&M for my little boy. I love the farm and vegetables pattern. It is really unusual. I can't wait to see him wearing it.

Fonts

I love handwritten fonts and I have passed these signs so many times. Although messy and not spaced out, there is something quite endearing about them.

11.7.13

Lucky Chinese Cat

Digitally generated using an A3 felt tip sketch as a starting point.

"Here's looking at you"

A3 felt tip piece.

Background created via filter.

More felt tip work

A3 felt tip sketch on cartridge. Manipulated via app.

Felt tip fun

"Here comes the sun"

Self motivated work

Felt tip

A3 on cartridge paper

(Image manipulated via filter)

10.7.13

5.7.13

Indoors

Lovely, bright sunny day and I am indoors in the studio mixing colours for a series of illustrations.

3.7.13

Spent some time this afternoon mixing up some colours and making a little fabric sample. I like the top 3 in the sequence as the shapes and colours are almost Swedish in their design but I'm not so happy with the addition of the magenta or the larger flower, which looks rather simplistic and not in keeping with the design I had in mind. Next attempt will be better!