Christmas cardinal

Last week's drawing challenge for the The Tuesday Collective drawing challenge on Instagram was a pleasing colour palette of red, pink, orange and green. After some backwards and forwards and some designs that didn't quite work, I decided to rework this cardinal design. I created it in a folk style and surrounded it with flowers and leaves.

The colour palette was fun to use once I got the hang of it and placing the images on the dark background gave it drama and allowed the other colours to sing.

 

Cute cardinal

 I love to dip into some of the drawing challenges on Instagram. It's really nice to design something for fun and last week's prompt word for the drawing challenge from @thetusedaycollective on Instagram was 'cardinal'. So I created this brightly coloured illustration of a cardinal surrounded by leaves and flowers. I really enjoyed creating this illustration, which I drew in Photoshop. I love the folk-inspired stylised feel of the design and love the colour combination of pinks, reds and greens on a deep purple background.

I designed this cardinal illustration to match the floral I designed for my Spoonflower shop a while ago. It also uses stylised flowers and leaves in the same colour palette.

You can find it on a fabulous floral duvet cover which would make a great statement to any bedroom. This comes on a variety of sizes from twin size to king size.

Alternatively, you could buy it on this lovely floral throw blanket which can be bought in a soft minky fabric or in a performance velvet fabric.

It's always nice to make a statement at the dining table and this print would work well as a floral tablecloth. It comes in a variety of sizes including round and square.

I love these floral cocktail napkins, the perfect accompaniment to a pre-dinner drink.

You can find my Spoonflower shop here