Musical Bears Tea Towel

Beary happy to have received my musical bears tea towel today. Your may recall some time ago I completed a series called 'Musical Bears'. It featured line work drawings of bears listening to music on various listening devices, from portable record players to a good old 1930's bakelite radio.

Thinking that these bears need to spend more time together, I've now put the 'Musical Bears' series on a tea towel which is available online and in store Sweets Workshop.

Greeting card Range

I've been working on a bright new card range for Sweets Workshop, which we will be launching at the next Finders Keepers Sydney Markets in May. Watercolours, paper scraps and pencils ready! 

Clockwise from top left: Making Beautiful Music, That's A Funny Looking Stalk, my favourite gocco print Polar Bear with Beats is now available as a greeting card and my classic print Dancing Shoes, is also available in the new card range.

Turning the Mill into Gocco Print Gold

So far out of the sketches I've completed I have decided on two that are graphic enough to create a gocco print from. One has the of the zoom sketch with 'Mungo Scott' lettering, brick work buildings and silos, the second includes the two silos with the rubble at the base. (Pictured above is the super special edition with metallic ink embellishment).

For the 'Mungo Scott' print kept it 2 colour, sky blue and black line work. I've printed some single colour  black on some craft paper and I have had a little fun with this and make a super limited edition version with metalic ink and hand water colour.

'The Mungo Scott' with hand water colour.

The screens used to create the 'Mungo Scott' Gocco Print

For the silo print I'm using 3 colours in 2 screen passes. In the first screen I've used light green and sky blue, positioning the ink on the screen where I want it to fall. You know me, I don't mind a bit of overlap, or an off register effect. The next screen in black only... The beauty and the beast of print gocco is that it is hard to register your colours. Some are bang on, some just off,  others way off. It seems the harder I tried, the worse it got. Haha.

 

'The Old Mill'

Screens and scrap paper from 'The Old Mill' Gocco Print

Branding Sprout & Bean Catering

The fabulous cooking duo Kate Allan and Meredith Walker-Harding have started their own vegetarian/vegan catering company called Sprout and Bean. The girls have been cooking up or rawing up dishes for high teas, birthday parties, weddings and events.

For their new venture Sprout and Bean needed a logo, this is where I come in. Kate and Meredith make everything by hand, their food styling  also reflects this with hand written chalk boards and menus, with a touch of vintage table settings, they recycle , reuse and repurpose items that they have collected to display their fabulous food creations.

For the logo, I wanted it to be created by hand. I wrote the business name by hand and incorporated a reference to sprout and bean, which appear to be growing on the writing like on a vine. I then painted a not so perfect heart shaped leaf with water colour to contain the logo. I this the logo is a representation of the ethos of the business. I had them printed on a recycled paper stock, I'm really happy with the results.