screen printing therapy

It hasn't been such a happy time recently. Practical hands on work usually helps me get my mind off things so screen printing was much needed. Sometimes it's best to not think and just do. And fun things can come out of it! 

I will hopefully use some of these for illustrations my friend Filip's short stories (some of them are about sea monsters and plants, how perfect!), I can't wait to see it all come together. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy these little experiments. I was told I needed to widen my colour palette so I've been trying to push myself- green, blue and yellow always seem to find their way in there somewhere though..

my logo!

my screen printing buddy Fika spreading some palm tree love

doodling asparagus & blueberries

The other day my lovely friend Eva, who's living in Boston right now - way too far away from me - kindly asked me to design a pattern for her mouthwatering food blog Pilgrim Soup. So after some time I actually drew pretty things instead of millipedes and cockroaches. I really enjoyed it!

Asparagus made the cut. Yay!

 I'll go back to drawing my usual weird things for now, though it's good to try something different once in a while, also to see people's feedback. And it keeps things interesting!

Here are a few other ones I played around with, which do you prefer and what can you see it on- clothes? wallpaper? stationary?