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Author: Kayleen
The Visual Economy – how important are illustrations in picture books?
Georgia, a student at the CATC Design School was working on an article on ‘The Visual Economy’ exploring importance of illustrations in children’s books verses the written story. In her article she wrote, (quote) “They say ‘a picture is worth a 1000 words’ is becoming more and more relevant in today’s society as the world…
Branching out and loving it!
Surface Design & Patterns I am more than thrilled to be sharing with you my newest extension to my illustrative work – surface design. Although I haven’t had a tremendous amount of time to devote to surface design as yet, I have been working on several designs for fabrics and surface products. This is just…
Trading Conflict for Peace: How to have peace in the home.
My plate has been full. It is the end of the year after all! In saying that, I have to remind myself I am no super-human and need to consider balance constantly. Yesterday I stopped to clear my desk, file finished agendas and re-priorities current commitments. The more regularly I do this the better. It…
Video: How to scan paintings
After a designer asked me about how to scan a watercolour. I see this question asked a lot. I thought I would make a video. I hope this makes scanning a little easier for someone. I also touch on the clone stamp tool as well.
This is how to draw something AWESOME – easy!
Have you noticed the flood of attractive patterned doodling popping up everywhere? It has been branded as tangles or zentangles. I guess in some places that is a better term than …well…doodle. Doodle here means…well…a boy’s thingy..you know. I bet most of you have at one time or another doodled on a scrap piece of…