Today’s combination is poppies and iPhoneography. This photo collage was made last weekend, when I visited Oldenburg’s local museum and took a picture of a doll bed. I combined it with a my neighbour’s poppy field (my neighbour has a super-green thumb, I see her working around her garden nearly all the time in spring… Read More
It is poppies blooming season right now and I want to celebrate this beauty with a week dedicated to this flower. All my posts, paintings, patterns and photographs will be poppy-related. Starting off with a collage of the poppies all around me – basically in my own garden and in my neighbour’s frontyard. (you know,… Read More
This week on a rainy May afternoon I was knitting away on my leftover blanket (a project that’s been already going on years!), when I realized how much I liked the random colour combination of green, purple and light pink. And the colours reminded me of something I have seen recently, what was it? Then… Read More
I am recently taking a wonderful course with the amazing painter Alena Hennessy and photographer Susan Tuttle called Radiant HeART . I am a big fan of both and already took their Co-Lab painting & iPhoneography course last year (without having an iPhone, but working in Photoshop instead). Having updated my devices recently, I am… Read More
Here are a few glimpses of our new exhibition: Hanging, deciding, hanging. The artists and some of their work. What about a new haircut and looking at some colourful paintings? Hair & Art.
Catching up with my pattern challenge … here is a quick sketch mocked up on an iPhone. “japanese stripes” (also available in my society6 shop)
I am a bit behind with my pattern challenge these days. For the last two weeks most of my creative energy went into relaunching my website and painting some big paintings for my upcoming show. Also Module 3 of the Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design is very business-based with loads of information about… Read More
My pattern “summer nights” was shortlisted (again) for the recent Tigerprint giftwrap Make Your Mark competition – from over 960 entries 71 designs were chosen, here is the shortlist. If this pattern looks familiar to you, you’re right, it was already part of my Pattern 16/52 giftwrap collection. But with the Tigerprint news this pattern… Read More
I have resisted the siren song of the iPhone for a long time … in fact, I didn’t even hear it. This week I answered the call. Find me instagramming @cathringressieker.
This week’s pattern was created to a brief in week 2 of the ABSPD course Module 3 (The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design). The assignment was to design a tea towel using traditional media and only black, white and two other colours of choice. I really wanted to recycle the textures I made… Read More