micklyn

A floral pattern with a vintage feel, created from individual elements hand drawn with pencil.

A pattern created by combining hand drawn pencil elements into a repeat. This is the first of three colorways.

A floral pattern with a vintage feel, created from individual elements hand drawn with pencil.

A delicate, detailed, pale doodle on a painted blue background.

A pretty, pale, minty pattern of Moroccan tiles, warmed up by a touch of gold paint and wood.

A pretty, pale, minty pattern of Moroccan tiles, warmed up by a touch of gold paint and wood.

A delicate, detailed, pale doodle on a painted golden background.

A delicate, detailed, pale doodle on a painted blue background.

A pattern created by combining hand drawn pencil elements into a repeat. This is the second of three colorways.

Baby tangle. I drew the original illustration by hand with pencil and then colored and finished it digitally.

A delicate, detailed, pale doodle on a painted golden background.

A pattern created by combining hand drawn pencil elements into a repeat. This is the third out of three colorways.

This took me a whole day, using a 0.1mm black ink pen, and made my fingers bruised and my hand ache, but I really enjoyed it anyway. : )

Back to wandering in my garden looking for inspiration. I have some fig trees...

Drawn with a ballpoint pen, colored in Photoshop. Back to doodling for a while.

Back to wandering in my garden looking for inspiration. I have some fig trees...

More of what grows in my garden. Butterflies are symbolic of resurrection, hope, joy, and new beginnings, but often these things only come through dark times and hard experiences. Today was, for me, one of those days, but working on this pattern lifted my spirit. This is for my husband.

A soft and pretty floral with an old-fashioned feel.

A soft and pretty floral with an old-fashioned feel.

A pretty, pale, soft and rosy pattern of Moroccan tiles, with a touch of gold paint and warm wood.

This pattern took me ages, long enough to make me wonder what I was thinking even starting on such an ambitious (for me) project. But my garden is full of proteas, and they are so lovely, I find their shapes and colors endlessly inspiring, so it had to be done. I couldn't ignore them anymore. : )

A pretty, pale, soft and rosy pattern of Moroccan tiles, with a touch of gold paint and warm wood.

An experiment in watercolor paint - in the mood for a little tropical color today. :)

An experiment in watercolor paint - in the mood for a little tropical color today. :)

A second colorway of my pattern of nature inspired chalk doodles.

A second colorway of my pattern of nature inspired chalk doodles.

Pattern and color, my favorite things.

Pattern and color, my favorite things.

Pattern and color, my favorite things.

A pattern of nature-inspired chalk doodles.

A pattern of nature-inspired chalk doodles.

Pattern and color, my favorite things.

A monochrome version of my Sunflowers Forever pattern.

In the mood for bright and pretty. : )

A monochrome version of my Sunflowers Forever pattern.

In the mood for bright and pretty. : )