Happy new year! I hope you all had a wonderful break. I celebrated new year by getting covid so that was a bummer! At least I was okay...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I made this cute little snowman man Christmas card using some of my images from my first Christmas...

Today I am sharing with you some of the Halloween themed patterns I created. These join the witches cat and the puzzled grim reaper...

I love getting something in the post from family and friends. There is just something about it. Letters and cards are special. This...

I know a kid who loves spiders. This kids mother is the opposite. In fact, they terrify her. Unfortunately for her this kid loves to joke...

Grim reapers don't always have to be scary. I wanted to create something funny with this illustration. This time the grim reaper got...

Introduction to animal character design went well. I had a bunch of really great people turn up. In the first class a mother and daughter...

A Halloween cat was a must for my Halloween collection. This was done in Rebelle 5 Pro and I had a blast! The brushes are just soooo...

How did Halloween start? There a a few theories but the most popular suggests if started as an Celtic festival of Samhain. It was...

Happy Diwali everyone! I hope you got to spend your time with loved ones and got to eat lots of yummy food. For those of you that don’t...

This versatile pattern is part of my winter collection. It would be great as gift wrap as pictured here but would work on pretty much...

In mid July this year I went to Castle Hill. It snowed! We were delighted at first as it was so pretty. I took quite a few photos. Then...

My niece turned seven today. She had her birthday party over the weekend. It was at a place where you can jump into a pit of foam cubes....

My father had his birthday in August this year. He has finally (sort of) retired from his Optometry business. He has had his business...

Animal Character Design for Beginners Artists Sunday 6th of November 2022 1pm-3.30pm Te Ara Atea, Rolleston The fundamentals of art...

Well its safe to say the weka won this one! He's going to have a very merry Christmas indeed! This weka character went through several...

I loved my job for awhile, even through the bad bosses, I still loved my job. I eventually found wonderful people to work for too....

Art Classes Art Classes are coming to Te Ara Atea this November! I will have two sessions of 1.5 hours long. The first class will be for...

Conservation week is coming up from the 5th to the 11th September. In honor of this I will share one of my patterns from my native bird...

A large old book with golden edges on the pages was source of my inspiration for this illustration. The book was printed in 1888. The...