Birds, stage-by-stage

Here is the stage-by-stage process of my new bird print – from original line drawing to a selection of prints, finished and laid out to dry!

Original line drawing in Indian ink.

Re-drawn branch, feathers comb and tail detail.

Selection of finished prints on various wallpaper backgrounds, laid out to dry.

Push Me Pull You

New prints are now available on my Etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AtelierBricolage

New prints ahoy!

I may have been quiet but I have not been idle. Tomorrow, I will be finishing off some Push Me Pull You prints and bringing home some reprints of my new Pageboy prints! 

Push Me Pull You.

The technicalities of printing on a wallpaper which was designed to be wiped clean means that it has to be printed in a particular way and drying time is very long.

Pageboy.

With the deadline for Christmas Open Houses looming, I have more prints up my sleeve (well not literally up my sleeve, nor in an actual pipeline, but you know what I mean) so expect more to come during October and November.

The Age of Aquarius.

New print in progress

I've long hand a "thing" about big hair and have often produced pictures on this theme – sometimes hair morphs into towering shapes, maybe a Carmen Miranda fruit baskets or even a Christmas tree!

I have now started working on an idea for "Birds' Nest Hair". I have plans to bring together a Beardsley influence, Grecian vases and Olaf Hajek– I just have to work out how to squeeze wallpaper into there...