Delighted to be able to share a wonderful project I worked on with the talented crew at Unified Brands. I was tasked with creating new illustrations for the brand ‘Silk’ for their Baby Wet Wipes and Toiletries range. A combination of simple shaped characters and loads of textures made this a really fun project to work on! I hope they live happily out on supermarket shelves to be enjoyed by many families. Let me know if you see them out in the wild!
Natureland Baby Food Packaging
So excited to share this lovely project I have been working on this past year. These are a few of the illustrations I created for the new range of Natureland baby food which is now gradually appearing on supermarket shelves. It was so fun working with the lovely Hannah Design Studio and challenging myself to come up with a range of compositions for the different ingredients. I treated them like little groups of children hanging out and having fun! Here are just a few of the different SKUs. I also got to create new artwork for their website pages and play with the characters even more. Check out their site to see more: www.naturelandbaby.co.nz
January Pattern Design Challenge
One of my goals this year is to keep up with the monthly design challenges set by my Flourish membership with Bonnie Christine. Here are two versions of my January pattern based on the word ‘Persist’.
Learning in the Lock Down
Early this year I enrolled in an online course by Bonnie Christine called' ‘Immersion’. It focused heavily on all things ‘Surface Design’ related and It has been a God send to keep my mind busy during this current Covid-19 lock down. I just completed the last lesson of the 8 week course and I’m happy to say I LOVED it! Surface Design has always been an avenue of illustration that I dreamed of one day getting into and now after taking this course I’m smitten with the idea of creating collections which can tell stories and create whole environments for people to interact with. There was so much to learn in this course - I know I’ll probably need the rest of the year to process it all, to practice the art of making patterns and develop my understanding of licensing - but it all sounds very exciting. Bonnie is a great teacher and mentor so If would like to look at the courses/memberships she runs check out her site here.
Below are some examples of a mini collection I made during the course. We were encouraged to start with a story from which to launch our ideas from. Mine was based on walking down the back of our farm - which is still pretty drought ridden on a hot afternoon and observing the sights and sounds.
Dancing Swallows
Weeds Under Foot
Withered Seeds
Moth Waltz
Cricket Staccato
Dancing Swallows - Haze