HAPPY KITTY BUNNY PONY

I remember at the start of this project, I was worried about target audience. I was talking to Kate about thinking that there wouldn't really be a target audience that were into the things that i was "into", but Kate said "well, people buy that Happy Kitty Bunny Pony book.... and i said "Oh yeah!" I do like it, it's full of the kinds of things I collect, it's a bit sickly though, yack yack yack, but it's got bit's of funny writing in it making fun of the stuff that's in it, so it's all a bit tongue in cheek! TEE HEE HEE

LIKE A MONKEY WITH A MINIATURE CYMBAL

This book is great. It's full of patterns and amazing illustrations. Anything to get you in the mood to sit down for a few hours & get all messy with some Berols'!

Olle Eksell

Olle Eksell is another new favourite! I'm a fan of Swedish Folk art & Swedish design in general. I think the best aspect of his work is the simplicity and subtle black & white detail combined with blocks of bold colour.

COLOUR KITTENS

This is a book i bought from Amazon purely because it recommended I did so...! Plus it was dirt cheap. I bought it at the same time I bought a book by Mary Blair I love her! I really like the style of the Alice & Martin Provensen, they select and apply colour really nicely. I also like the themes and layout of the pages. With all childrens books, the imagery tells a story on it's own and is visually engaging.

WALT PREOGORY

I tend to forget about how much I like the work of Walt Pregory. I forget because I see the top image every day as my phone background & the background on my laptop. These images were probably used in some of his animation from around the 1950's to 60's. The detail and colour in this image is something I will apply to my textiles and the simplicity of the shapes will also make some kind of appearence using offcuts from fabric to create tree's possibly???

I LIKE IT A LOT.

MAXINE SUTTON

I found this artist in a embroidery magazine in college. I really like the mixed material and composition. I think i'll probably have a bit more of a sense of a story with the piece that i will make. I'm not going to produce a patchwork quilt, just oging to apply the idea of patchwork and quilt seperately to create more of a comfort blanket with imagery inspired by my collections.

I LIKE YOUR STYLE BOB GUIDI

THE ART & FLAIR OF MARY BLAIR

Mary Blair (1911 - 1978) is probably best known for her Alice & Wonderland work for Walt Disney as she was honoured as a Disney Legend in 1991. My favourite of her work is from the 1950's, old childrens books like "I can fly" and the work I have selected below...

FLICKR

I've been selecting some of my favourite photos on FLICKR dot com. They're really relevent for the direction my project is going in and really interesting. It's such an easy way of getting thumbnails of inspiration together to have a look at colours, composition and subject matter. I've also used FLICKR to put my own photographs of COLLECTIONS .

BEING FRANK

Sewing is cool...Honest! Frankie Magazine says so! This magazine is an Australian version of a mag like Lula. It's got a lot of baking, sewing, knitting, making your own this n that, all the girly 'shit' that I shamelessly obsess over.











LOOK! It's even got a Cheerleading Nana! WHAT THE HELL?