When I step outside our house onto the terrace these June days and look up, I have a view kind of like this: I’ll be leaving for Brighton/England tomorrow for the MATS Global Art Gathering. I have been taking the Make Art that sells online courses with the Lilla Rogers School over the last months… Read More
For this week’s pattern I played with a pattern palette and a fashion trend for spring/summer 2016 called Soft Pop. I wanted to get a feel for the colours and designed a scarf pattern for the recent Printed Village competition. Pastels and geometrics are a big part of this trend. Powdery pinks – why not?… Read More
It is my birthday today. And though it was on a regular working Monday, I just liked it that way. Waking up to table of presents, a cake and flowers, taking a cold shower, teaching yoga classes in the morning and in the evening, a little bit of painting, drawing and designing, my lovely family,… Read More
I close my Week of Poppies with a pattern. I experimented with inks on yupo paper this week – strange thing that paper, synthetic and water resistent, that lets the ink stay very saturated on top. I was about to throw my first attempt away: But then I rather scanned it and took it into… 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
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
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.
oh, how I love magnolias!
My yoga students continue to surprise and amaze me. Not only through their practice. Especially in my prenatal and mama- and baby yoga classes, where I see my students grow and change during quite a wonderful and intense time, I sometimes get lovely cards and presents. Like this week: A sewing book for yoga clothes… Read More