Cotton Reels

This is a line drawing that I added colour to digitally. It was inspired by a tin of vintage cotton reels that belonged to my Nan - so many colours on beautiful old wooden spools. I would like to make it into a fabric one day!

Great British Seaside Illustrations

These two illustrations were part of my project on the British Seaside. They started out as line drawings and then were scanned on to the computer and put together digitally with added vector elements and textures. The seashells illustration is available as a print in my shop.

Toy Horse Illustration

My sister and I had one of these little horses each when we were girls. I called mine Pin because we were reading a book at school about a boy who had a china horse called Pin - nice logic when you are six! I did the illustration below a few years ago. I made the border to give a bit of a fairground art feel. The drawings were done with a Faber-Castell PITT artist pen with a brush nib and a fine liner and I scanned them and put it all together digitally. 

BOWS

A rather zany pattern of bows in bright colours.

BOOKS

VASE

This illustration again started life as a line drawing and in addition a separate pattern. I then put them onto the computer to assemble the image and add colour. Some of the blooms were made using some simple linocut circles.