I’ve been making this little animation for a while now, and am so excited to share it with you. My new fabric collection (launching later in April) is called Flower Dreams , and I thought a promotional animation was an excellent excuse to draw cute kids and kitties.
Watch this space over the next little while for LOTS more news about Flower Dreams, and in the meantime, I hope you have some of your own.
Stop-motion animation is painstaking, back-breaking work. I did know this when I embarked on making a little promotional animation for my Flower Dreams launch (coming up 18 April), but I can be very blind to the facts when convenient. So, in marvellously gung ho style, I made a start. And, of course, once I’d started, I had to continue (I’m sure there’s a motivational poster in there somewhere). And that’s why I am in my studio on Easter Monday with a single task on my list: Finish The Animation!
Here are some drawings I did this morning:
Back to work.
… taking photos and making fonts. Does it show?
Happy Easter, everyone. Enjoy the hols, and enjoy the hot cross buns, and bunnies too.
Did you know that Skinny laMinx now makes lampshades to order? I bet you didn’t because I’ve been horribly slack about getting the news out. Nonetheless, this is the news and the news is good.
There are three standard sizes, or 250x250mm, 300x250mm, and 350x310mm, all of which can be made up in any Skinny laMinx fabric within a week of ordering, and can even be delivered to you directly in a box! Bespoke sizes can also be made up, but may take a little longer to deliver.
Please get in touch if you’d like to order.
I made this Eye Chart cutout illustration for an event held by the Book Lounge on Friday night.
The occasion was Picador’s 40th birthday bash, and the Book Lounge asked a number of local artists to donate black and white works to be auctioned for charity. I missed the event, but heard over the weekend that the auction managed to raise R12 500! All the money will be used to buy books for the Parkhurst Primary library. Hooray for books!
I’m hard at work planning my first ever proper fabric launch of my first ever proper fabric collection, which I’ve called Flower Dreams. While I’m dying to share all the designs and pics I’ve been taking, I’ve been doing my best to keep things relatively under wraps until the launch on April 18, but I’ve a few sneak peeks to share of the shoot I did with photographer Lar Leslie at the Space For Life showroom yesterday.
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It’s Making Friday, but I’ve got a nasty chesty bug and am not up to much today. Also, I had a great Making Wednesday this week, so I think I’m allowed today off. Just this once! But before I bugger off home to feel sorry for myself (and probably tweet about it), I did want to tell you a bit more about one of the things I made in last week’s bumper edition of Making Friday.
This is a round floor cushion, also known as a Zafu, and the idea is that is props up your bum while you sit in meditation. A zafu is generally stuffed with kapok, but what I love about my zafu is that it is stuffed with fabric offcuts, and this has made a substantial dent in the endless accumulation of fabric offcuts I seem to generate.
There’s a zip smartly concealed in one of the pleats, which means that if you have been doing some heavy meditation, causing the zafu stuffing to become compressed, it’s super easy to add more stuffing.
Let me know if you’d like to order a zafu. They’re fun to make (and good for my karma, I’m sure), but as they’re pretty heavy, I think they’re probably only viable for Cape Town customers.
I spent my Human Rights Day holiday yesterday making bunting, which seemed a fairly celebratory thing to do, really.
The first four pieces I made are for sale in my Etsy shop, and keep an eye out in my Cape Town shop for more.
The space above my shop/studio has been vacated, and the landlord has kindly been letting me use it for taking photos of all my new fabrics. The light is just amazing!
It may be heading towards Autumn here in Cape Town, but things came out distinctly Springy in my pics of the new Solid Orla cushions, now available in Strawberry and Plum too. (SA shoppers, visit my online store at shop.skinnylaminx.com)
Woah, that was one super-productive Making Friday, stretching all the way from Thursday afternoon til Sunday! Alongside the yoga workshops and hoovering (which are what weekends ought to be about) I managed to squeeze in two animations, the sewing of a zafu, and I made a cutout illustration for a charity auction at the Book Lounge. Pics below (animations to follow, once tidied up a bit)
