We have loads of succulents at home and on the studio roof garden, but I have never been very good at remembering their botanical names. However, the name of the Echevaria genus – named after the 18th century Mexican botanical artist Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy (thanks, Wikipedia) – has managed to stick. That’s because all of a sudden, …
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Colours of Echevaria
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Jaipur colour
Hope you enjoyed that colour explosion! All photos taken while I was in Jaipur with Ace Camps, teaching on the 2014 Jaipur Block Printing tour. See all my Jaipur posts here.
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Colour thinking
I’ve been holed up in my studio this week, with scissors and pinking shears in hand, as I hack into mounds of my printed offcuts, putting together colour groups as I think about next year’s fabric collection. It’s a wild life, this!
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Inspiration: Yellow jackets
I was in Sea Point yesterday, killing some time before yoga, and popped into the CAFDA bookshop, where I spotted this entire shelf of yellow-jacketed books. I can’t believe I hesitated for even a moment, before I bought the whole lot for the shop. Colour blocking here we come! I must say, I was intrigued by the sheer …
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Blackboard birds
I’ve just added a new colourway to my Cloud Birds print, and this one’s called ‘blackboard’. It’s just the colour of an oldfashioned school chalkboard. So, top to bottom of the pile below, the colours go:Blackboard, Verdigris , Blue Sky and Granny Smith. All four are now available for sale in my Etsy shop, either …
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