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Daily Painting Challenge 2 - basketweave Following the daily painting challenge with Lisa Congdon over at CreativeBug though I haven't quite managed to keep up daily. Still, it's wonderful picking the brush up again and splashing around with paint!

Allover fish pattern using some old and new ocean themed drawings.

Gouache, ink and gold acrylic paint :)

Which pair would you wear? . This fun doodle is in response to the latest weekly drawing prompt to draw a pattern, in red, with a pen. If you want to play along, sign-up on the site and a new quirky prompt will be delivered to your inbox every Monday.

Here are several steps in the process of making a particularly complex pattern and some color variations.

This image was created to be a limited print to go along with my new book, 10 Years of Daily Drawings.

Commuting doodle, done with fineliner and rosegold gel pen in Hahnemühle pocket size sketchbook.

Mashup of geometric patterns and some organic shapes.

Pen and ink doodle of a fantasy city in the sky.

(Black biro on a 139mm x 89mm postcard). Another dreamscape piece that uses automatic drawing techniques to produce random imagery. I was going to call this one "bloodlines" due to the shaded central areas which developed, but the lettering in the bottom-left corner began to take shape and so I highlighted them and used them as the title.

Watercolour painting of medieval costumes, and their pretty fabrics.

Following the daily painting challenge with Lisa Congdon over at CreativeBug though I haven't quite managed to keep up daily. Still, it's wonderful picking the brush up again and splashing around with paint!

But first coffee

Doodle and pina colada :)

These patterns are all made from drawings pulled from my 2017 sketchbook project. I studied fiber arts in grad school and learned how to do repeat patterns - the old fashioned way by cutting and taping paper together... I haven't done any in 25 years - until this month!

I also digitally made this into a seamless repeating pattern, so it can be put on fabric, wallpaper, home goods, clothing, etc.

Pattern mixing

3 months of doodling on an 11x17 sheet.

Whimsical flowers drawn in black and grey ink pens. Designed to be colored in or left as is!