Category: Surface Pattern Design

Surface pattern design brightens up our lives. It adds art to our everyday surroundings and vibrant design to the objects and interiors we surround ourselves with.

Wednesday 13 January 2021

Illustration/Surface Pattern Design

Colour and Illustration

Colour – it’s a massive subject. Something that is incredibly beautiful and fundamental to art and illustration. Yet if you start getting into studying it formally, it can get very overwhelming. Complementary colours aren’t colours...

Friday 8 January 2021

Illustration/Surface Pattern Design/Teaching

It’s all new

New Year The start of a new year immediately makes you look at the past one. It’s not very pretty this year though is it? Personally it was ok for us. Australia hasn’t been hard...

Wednesday 7 October 2020

Illustration/Surface Pattern Design

Mock-up Love

I love creating mock-ups for patterns and prints. Here are some pointers on how to start creating mock-ups

Wednesday 3 June 2020

Children's Books/Illustration/Surface Pattern Design

Black illustration

A blog post celebrating black illustrators and designers

Monday 25 May 2020

Craft/Illustration/Surface Pattern Design

More sewing

Face masks with wire! So life is opening up again and it feels weird and worrying so this weekend I hid behind my sewing machine. That’s not strictly true, we did have drinks with a...

Saturday 16 May 2020

Illustration/Sketches/Surface Pattern Design

More and more animals in hats!

Day 40 and counting. 40 days ago I had the ridiculous notion to start The 100 Day Project. As I love creating characters I set myself the challenge to create 100 animals in hats. Why?...

Wednesday 13 May 2020

Art/Illustration/Surface Pattern Design

Getting Help…getting too much help

Karen Erasmus discusses guidance and advice for creative business.

Thursday 9 April 2020

Illustration/Surface Pattern Design

The 100 Days of Animals in Hats

It’s getting to us all Well of course, like everyone else on the planet, life is just not the same. We’re all working at home now. But it’s going just fine. There’s an endless list...

Wednesday 1 April 2020

Craft/Illustration/Surface Pattern Design

Getting by at home

Sew-Walk-Draw-Design-Repeat As for most people on planet earth at the moment life has changed dramatically around here during the past two weeks. But we’re lucky, we have space to walk the dogs and for each...

Friday 20 March 2020

Children's Books/Surface Pattern Design

Flying Elephants from the Past

Many years ago when my parents lived in Australia (and the world wasn’t completely fxxxed…sorry, I’m trying to stay positive!) my daughter drew this marvellous elephant. Mum loved it so much she had it stuck...