Art Play

I'm playing around with different mediums at the moment and I'm in love with chalk pastels and inks. This piece is one I've been working on as exploration for an exhibition I'm considering submitting for. I'll see where it leads to...

:)Kim

New Illustrations

Boy am I glad its Monday today. Not something you usually hear someone say but its true because last week (or maybe the last two weeks) was just super crazy busy. You know when all of a sudden you have all these things to do? But now its Monday and they're all done. Yay! Time to organise my Australia Day BBQ.

One of the 'things' I did last week were these 4 illustrations. I turned them into greeting cards that I had printed for the North Melbourne Market. They looked so cute (and professional hehe) and they got a really good response so I'm going to do a few more over the next few weeks.

Basically the idea behind them was to juxtapose black and white realistic drawings with colourful fantasy elements. So I drew the sketches and then added the colour elements on Illustrator. It was fun and a great way to learn how to use one of those super-annoying-takes-lots-of-hours-to-figure-them-out kinda programs like Illustrator and Photoshop. I can definitely say I like Illustrator a lot more than Photoshop. Hope you like them!





:) Kim

New Year, New Toys!

Wow how fast did December fly by! And here we are in the New Year - woohoo. I always love the energy of the new year, it's a great time to reassess, plan and scheme for the coming months. And trust me I have been scheming up lots of new things so I can't wait to roll them out.

In the meantime I was very spoilt this Christmas and Santa got me a new Canon digital SLR. Yay! I can't wait to dive in to some photography. I've been holidaying in Perth for the last 2 weeks and on my last night I took these photos to experiment with the camera and remind myself what the hell shutter speed and aperture do again.

The pictures are of Como jetty - one of my favourite spiritual places in Perth.

How beautiful are clouds. I always love looking at the different patterns and shapes and Perth really does get some amazing skies.

Here's to the New Year and looking skywards...

:)Kim

Shopping Totes Galore

Say no to ugly green and blue plastic branded "canvas" bags and hello to cute screenprinted cotton totes!

These were a lot of fun to make and I hope you get a laugh out of them. The shoulder strap is great for your back when carrying heavy shopping! Plus they're machine washable so if they get them dirty just chuck em in with your bits and bobs. Too easy! You can find them at my online store here.

:)Kim

New Products!

I saw at least 4 Christmas trees being put up today so it must be Christmas time! And just in time for some Christmas cheer are these new hand drawn Xmas cards. There's four different designs, they're drawn on 100% recycled card and they come nicely packaged with an envelope included. Plus you can also get these designs in gift tags that come in packs of four. You can buy them online here. Big thanks to Mark Gambino for doing the photos.



:)Kim

I just discovered SpoonFlower

I feel like a child just discovering Christmas. SpoonFlower is a company who will print any design you upload onto fabric! So essentially you can design and print your own fabric - how cool is that! Plus you can order as little as one metre. Even better. I cannot wait to have a play. In the meantime here are two fabrics that I liked (yes you can put your design up for sale!)

Design by Heidi Kenney

Design by Kukubee

:)Kim

I've been having fun of late using iphone apps to take photographs and I wanted to share these with you. The flowers are from Fitzroy Therapeutics where I stock my wheatbags. They always have such a beautiful collection of flowers throughout the clinic I can't help but take photos of them everytime I'm there! I'm a sucker for a good floral arrangement.

I've rekindled my love of photography lately. I used to love it when I had my film SLR camera but it developed a problem of only developing every 3rd or 4th picture. Frustrating! And no one was able to fix it so I just stopped taking photos. Now 2 years down the track I'm keen to get back into it - I especially love landscape photography and at the other end of the scale I love macro photos. So who knows hopefully Santa can help me out with a new digital camera. Hehe. Plus I could take some awesome product shots of course! Speaking of products I know I haven't posted much of my wok of late and that's because I've been busily developing new and fun things which I'm almost finished with so hopefully next week I can start sharing!

:)Kim