Macmillan Childrens Book Prize

I have decided to produce an ABC book as an entry for the prize. This will help me concentrate more on the illustrations and less on producing the text, it also gives me focus for the main 26 pages required for the entry. What theme I do not know yet. I would like to lino cut the letter shapes and use the screen printed swatches I will make to produce simple page designs in keeping with my style.

Towel Design

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To help inspire for my towel print design I have decided to look at plankton. The reason for this is that it is not an obvious choice for surf design, but still involves the sea. I like the shape of these creatures and I feel I could create an interesting pattern design with this inspiration.

Experimental Screen Printing

For the next stage of  my development  I would like to experiment with screen print to produce abstract prints that I can scan in and used as swatches in illustrator, this would help me to further my knowledge of screen printing in a more experimental way whilst expanding my library of swatches.Which I can then use in further projects.

Penguin Childrens Book Prize

   

I created this design on illustrator using my tissue paper swatches, I wanted  to give the design a simple retro feel, which I feel I have achieved, I still feel however that I have still got more work to do to bring it all together. 

Egg People

These characters inspired by The House of Fairy Tales are created in illustrator using fabric and paper swatches that I have created. These characters could be used for a project in the future, what I don't know yet.

Lino print owls

                                          Owls on wood

 

 

Owl on ripped tissue paper

                                     Owls on coloured paper 


Experimenting with linocut and various surfaces, these designs can work well as one off limited edition prints or card designs.

Owls

  
A 'personality of owls' using illustrator as my design process, I still can not decide which background I prefer. I need to make a couple of small changes and then they are ready to be printed into posters. 

Christmoose cards

To create my Christmoose Cards I used a moose design that I created earlier on in the year. I then put the moose in different situations and poses.
I used illustrator and tissue paper swatches I created as my main design process. To finish off this project I need to send these designs off to appropriate publishers.

Screen printed childrens book

Using the quote 'After dark all cats are leopards' I decided to create a childrens book using screen printing as my main process. To create these images I decided to use simple shapes and a two colour screen printing process. I feel the contrast of dark and light works well as a double spread. I would like like to submit some of these designs into the Bolgna Book Fair but to do this I need to re-work the text.