Surface Pattern Design by Kate Lennon
This is my tried and true way of sketching beautiful simple Autumn/Fall leaves. I use this method for creating motifs for surface pattern design but you can use them for anything! It’s a fun, stress-free way of drawing for any level, including beginners. Get outside and collect your leaves! We had a lovely trip to …
It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post…these have been busy times and are ongoing stressful times for everyone. I send my well-wishes to everyone reading this. I have decided to change the way I write my blog posts. I still want to share other pattern designers, illustrators and artists’s work but have …
Hello, my fellow pattern-lovers! Here we are, already in September and although we have had a couple of bright sunny days in the south-west of the UK over the last week, it is definitely feeling like autumn. It’s the shortest but probably the sweetest of the seasons and is my theme for this week. Pattern …
Hi everyone! It’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote a post because of the busy summer holidays. We went away for a week to Cornwall, which was really lovely and an enforced rest from work, in all forms. I painted everyday and took plenty of photographs. I’m now feeling refreshed and full …
Happy Sunday, pattern lovers! Summer has returned to the UK which has meant I’ve not been as productive as I would have liked. The latest Spoonflower challenge was ‘moths’ and I really wanted to enter but didn’t get my entry finished in time. I have read that it is important to ensure that you regularly …
Coming to you a little later than usual this week. Life is so full at the moment but the aim of this blog is to record and share my thoughts and favourite designs, tutorials and tips weekly. So, here we are with week 4, and the theme is dogs. Pattern Clockwise from left: Selma Cardoso …
Hi there! Starting with my entry into the Spoonflower design challenge. The keyword for this design challenge was simply ‘pirates’. This is the first time I have entered any kind of competition and I thoroughly enjoyed working to a design brief. Spoonflower do these every week and you can see the whole month’s themes in …
Happy Monday, pattern lovers! I have had a busy week with the school holidays starting and trying to maintain a good pace of pattern design work. I have managed to fit in some fun though, and we had a lovely day trip, with picnic, to the Brockhampton National Trust estate. Pattern This weekend we went …
Happy Monday, pattern lovers! This is the first in what will be a weekly newsletter full of inspiration. It will contain my favourite patterns from around the Surface Pattern Design (SPD) world, any tips, informative YouTube or online tutorials I have found for SPD, and what I’m working on. It’s 50 years since Apollo 11 …