Had a lot of fun painting these chillies and peppers. This is the exact style I'm going for and the thickness of the paint is what I wanted to achieve. It's easy to work like this in green so I need more practice working in this way with colour. 

My favourite bit.

I've scanned a few of my paintings in and manipulated them on Photoshop. I don't consider these finished designs, they are simply just to see how the shapes and look of the flowers could potentially work in future designs.

I have decided to try painting some bunches of flowers in acrylic. It's proving to be very slow and tricky work. I can't wait to finish it so I can scan it into the computer and play around with it more. Here's my first bunch in progress: 

Today I went to the Harris Gallery in my home town, Preston. I didn't go to see anything specific but there were a lot of nice ceramics with different styles of painted flowers on them. These are some of my favourite pieces. 

Going somewhere?

I've been having a good practice with acrylic, after avoiding it for the past few years. I feel like I'm getting the hang of it now and looking at these 3 paintings together I feel like I might be getting closer to pinning down a style for this collection! I just need to speed up, I need tons more if I want to get some really good fabric samples. 

My first design sheet! Sweet Peas, Pansies & a flower I'm not too sure of the name of, all painted in Gouache. I tried to concentrate on building areas of flat colour and line.

Stretching my legs.

Some quick photos of pages from my sketch book. I have been stretching my legs at the moment, getting used to working with media I haven't used for a while. With in these pages I have used pencil crayon, gouache paint, watercolour & acrylic. I really need to practice my acrylic painting over the coming weeks as I feel it conveys the theme of my work the best.

I intend to try a bit of collage too because I find it very expressive and textured.