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It is Pattern Love
Working through “The Art & Business of Surface Pattern” e-course (Module 2), I realise that it’s my own lack of confidence in my work that’s previously held me back from pursuing my dreams. working as a creative professional. As I work on new designs, almost daily now, my confidence grows. I’ve loved colour and pattern forever. I now see the value in the millions of doodles in all my sketchbooks. Revisiting them is sparking new ideas for pattern designs. My love for pattern is renewed. Revitalised. The quality (and quanitity) of information and creative exercises in the course goes along way to building my confidence up...
Read MoreCool Photoshop Pattern Brushes
Over at “Happy To Create”, where I sell some of my digital designs, they’ve come up with some fantastic new Photoshop brushes called “Dynamos”. You have got to see these things in action to believe them! Paint seamless patterns quickly and easily. I was so impressed that I decided to start making some too. My first set, Flowers, is available now. I loved creating these not least of all for how easy they are to use. Easily create your own digital scrapbooking papers, decorate cards, tags and much more. They work in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. The brushes come with full instructions including an easy to follow video...
Read MoreColour & Pattern
I love colour. I love pattern. As a digital designer, I get to play with pattern and colour daily. And so when I saw that Beth of “Do What You Love”, had teamed up with Rachael Taylor, one of the UK’s leading surface pattern designres, to create an amazing course, The Art & Business of Surface Pattern Design, I knew I had to sign up. Perfect timing. Gentle whispers and a feeling of wanting to do more with my work lately, made me realise that it was a great area to explore further. Surface pattern design. Moving forward. New dreams. New goals. I’ve just about completed Module 1 and I’m blown away by how it has opened my...
Read MoreArt of Digital Design
I absolutely know that I’m truly blessed to work from home in a job that I love. To work alongside my beloved hubby in our digital art & design business. To have a beautiful office/studio. To brainstorm together. To help each other. It is wonderful for sure. However, after being out of the loop for a couple of years and only really working a couple of hours a week, I needed to desperately get some inspiration, design confidence and motivation to get back to my career full time. I found it all in the Art of Digital Design classes over at JessicaSprague.com. Art of Digital Design classes hit the spot! For anyone thinking seriously about a career...
Read MoreRe-colouring Ribbons in Photoshop
Overview: tutorial showing you how to recolour ribbons (bows, embellishments) in Photoshop using layers and layer blend modes. Created using Photoshop CS5 and written it assuming you know the fundamental basics such as file opening, saving, layers etc. NOTES: One of the easiest ways to re-colour something in Photoshop is to use Image | Adjustments | Hue/Saturation. It can work really well but there are other ways that will add a bit more depth of colour and realism to whatever you’re re-colouring. For this tutorial I’m using my own designer resource of curled ribbons. You can use any desaturated embellishment. Always start with a high quality...
Read MoreI Love Patterns
Oh I love finding out new things. Always learning. Discovering. Today was no exception when I came across (via Renee Pearson’s blog – thanks for sharing, Renee), a new design tool, Repper – a pattern creation program for the PC and Mac. Created by the guys at Studio Ludens, it is really neat, easy to use and fun! Love having fun. It’s a stand alone program, not a Photoshop filter and costs just $39. So I put it through it’s paces and ended up with a gorgeous little set of digital scrapbook papers. I’m really thrilled with them. Here’s how I created them. I chose one of my own images to use. Actually, I...
Read MoreAbout Me
I'm a UK based digital & surface pattern designer. Living life to the full in the Garden of England.
