Tigerprint Competition

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Tigerprint, a renowned stationary company who supply Marks & Spencer have launched a 'Are you gifted?!' competition with a different theme each day for a month, the idea being that you make a design a day. The brilliant part being that you can do as many or as little as you like.

Thought I'd enter and take my chances! I'll be honest and admit I did all of mine all in one day!

Here are some of my favourite designs, I did about 16 in total.

Theme was 'Symmetry', my original idea being that I took an image that was symmetrical and cropped it so it isn't...?!

The idea behind the colour palette was from Russian poster art.

This theme was 'Bloom' so I tried to do something that I could actually imagine on a greetings card!

This theme was 'Funny Face', bit weird, but I like it!

This theme was 'Best of British', so I chose to use the best of British architecture as my inspiration.

And this theme was childhood adventures, so I chose to use photos from an adventure me and my brother had a few years ago!

And last but not least this one's theme is 'Nature' and I decided to use my more trademark ink drawing skills.

I'll let you know if I hear anything from it!

Drawings

So.......

Here's I few of my most recent drawings I though I'd share with you.

I particularly like the 'cell' based drawings. I'll continue to use that book as inspiration!

Also my parents have recently come back from Morocco with a lot of pattern/colour/texture pictures for me, which I want to use as inspiration for my next project. Can't wait!

Yes, more cushions!

So.......

My Mum recently gave me a very interesting book about cellular structures in the body that she kindly found for me.

It is full of colourful images of highly enlarged microscope views, and I found it fascinating. Immediately I wanted to start drawing from it. The intricate structures are weird and wonderful, and strange to thing they all exist in all of our bodies.

So I've made a cushion collection based on my drawings from this book. Here are the results:

Don't forget, if anything takes your fancy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/PollyTaylorDesigns

So.......

I wanted to create a collection that was not so bright to balance out my other ones. I was aiming to create a kind of beachy, rainy, devon-y feel!

I used the same dyes as normal but on cotton canvas which takes the colour very differently to the twill I used in my 'Garden' collection.

Here are the results:

Quite pleased I managed to take these before the rain came in...again! I used a mossy bench in my garden as backdrop to connect them to their inspiration.

I think my photography skills need a little work though!

I am pleased with the way you can see the original fabric colour through the gaps in the stripes. My sister commented that the OCD-ness in her wanted to colour them in!

I'm trying to find a way to create screen prints based on a book my mum gave me...so hopefully that will be coming up soon in a post.

It's still raining!

So.......

It's still raining. The only good thing about this is that Devon looks beautiful in the rain. This has inspired me to create a collection of cushions specifically inspired by my garden in the rain.

Here are the outcomes:

I am really happy with the colour combinations in this collection. I think they reflect Totnes (where I live) quite well!

Although it has made me productive I hope it stops raining soon!!

Cushions! Cushions! Cushions!

So......

It has been raining A LOT. Especially on Devon. So to combat this I have been distracting myself from the fact we are not having a summer by making cushions. All are available for sale at: http://www.etsy.com/shop/PollyTaylorDesigns

Please have a look and see what you think!

Inspired by my recent trip to London for the show I have created an abstract collection based on architectural London landmarks (my favourite ones anyway!).

Here are the results:

So they are in the following order.... the Tower Bridge, City Hall (perhaps not so well known, but nevertheless a beautiful one, and in my opinion, worth celebrating!), St Pauls, The Gerkin (or 30 St mary Axe), and then an abstract representation of my memory of the London skyline over Waterloo Bridge.

I am pleased with the result, I like the way they are not perfect, a little clumsy perhaps, it adds to their charm.

I chose to photograph them against the steps in my garden. I think this works well as it contrast with the fabric, and reminds the viewer that the subject matter of the cushions is hard and architectural like the steps themselves.