Freebie Friday - Colourful + Abstract Textile Textures

Hello and happy Friday!
Apparently it's Pi day today. I don't have any Pi or pie textures (yet) but here are some colourful,  patterned, and abstract texture resources. =)

Feel free to use these resources for personal or professional projects but please:

Do not claim the original resource images as your own,
Do not redistribute commercially. Basically, don't save and sell the resources as your own, but by all means do share the link to this page with others. :)
Do not use these textures as a base to create your own stock art/resources.

And, please feel free to share anything you've made with these resources with me. I'd love to have a look! =)

Some previous Freebie Friday posts:

Branches, Berries and Blossoms
Blue Pattern Textile Textures
Black and White Textiles (part 3)
Black and White Textiles (part 2)
Black and White Textiles (part 1)
Coffee Stained Paper
Fanciful Florals
Vintage Inspired
Green
Red
Denim

Have a fantastic weekend!

Sneak Peeks at White and Black Vignettes

Hi again!

As promised in the previous post, I'm continuing to share glimpses of work I've been doing from September till now. (Still working!)
Today, I have close ups of black and white chapter heading type images. These were actually done before the paintings I previewed last week. Before diving into full-colour illustrations I decided to pick a few subtle moments from the story and portray them in little vignettes. This gave me a chance to explore design elements I was considering for the bigger pieces.

More sneak peeks again next Tuesday!
Previous blogpost - Sneak Peeks at Snowy Scenes

Something new I'm working on. Tracing some of my own patterns on to this lady's outfit. I'm old-school :)

Have a lovely week!

Walnut Tree

About a year ago for one of my illustrations I created an image that was inspired by the song - "Somewhere Only We Know" by Keane. Immediately after finishing the piece I knew that I wanted to do a series with a similar dreamy theme inspired by music.
So, yesterday I finally returned to this idea and completed this little piece. I thought it might be fun to do a few miniature works before doing a few big ones.

This piece is inspired by Keane's song - "Walnut Tree"

Orientation is reversible. It can be flipped this way.

and this way too:)

I drew/painted the image on 6 x 6 inch Strathmore Bristol smooth paper, but the image itself is about 4.75" wide and 2" tall.
Used my trusty 0.05 micron pen + my new 0x4 brush (and bigger brushes too) with ink. The smaller the brush is, the more excited I get!

Here's a cellphone snapshot for scale reference:

a penny for scale