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Sunday walk

On Sunday afternoon we walked around the city. We chose a new neighbourhood to discover, Sarrià. There were surprises along the way, including nice patterns and terrible monsters . We ended up at the museum of decorative arts Palau Reial de Pedralbes...

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Tags: cities, pattern, barcelona

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30 juillet 2009

The little boat sails again

As I mentioned before, Elaine and I are doing a skill swap: gilding for stained glass work. In the past weeks we were working on the gilding of her royal bed , which is a nearly finished project (can't wait to see the final results!) and I had my 2 day...

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Tags: pattern, workshop, craft, stained glass

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4 juillet 2009

Thinking origami #2: The Coot

More patterns developed from origami shapes. See what happened to the little boat here .

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Tags: illustrator, print, design, screenprinting, pattern, origami

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14 juin 2009

Screenprinting weekend #3: A work in progress

As I mentioned in this post , in the latest screenprinting workshop at Liz Nilsson 's I had very ambitious project in mind, and this was the printing of a square tablecloth (160x160 cm) with a border of my own design (see planned layout in the last picture...

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Tags: print, design, textile, screenprinting, pattern, fabric, origami

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12 juin 2009

Thinking origami #1: The Boat

Let me introduce a series of posts where I'll present some of the patterns I've been creating lately. They are all based on origami shapes and are intended as ideas for future screenprints. The boat is one of my favourites and I really enjoyed playing...

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Tags: illustrator, print, design, screenprinting, pattern, origami

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27 mai 2009

My fabric treasure

This morning, happiness in the shape of fabric. I received my latest order from Contemporary Cloth . Good price, super fast shipping. I'm looking forward to making things with it!

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Tags: textile, pattern, shopping, colour, cotton, craft, fabric, online shops, prints, supplies

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4 mai 2009

Birds

One of the most interesting activities I've been doing this year was the screenprinting course at Liz Nilsson 's studio here in Dublin. The course consisted of six lessons and during this time the basics of screenprinting on textiles were explained, as...

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Tags: print, design, birds, screenprinting, pattern

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