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Posted by Suzanne@WhimSicALLusH on December 31, 2016

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A little peek of the corner of an illustration that’s been stuck in my head! It was time to set it free (with a deadline - I didn’t want to stop adding to it 😅💚🌿). These dreamy plant prints will be available to pre-order from my shop as part of this weekend’s @teagreenevents #TeaGreenMarketplace our ultimate one stop online shop for all your indie shopping needs. There will be artisans from all over Scotland taking part... so don’t miss out! . . #whimsicallush #illustration #digitalart #plants #plantlove #greenhouse #glasshouse #ferns #zzplant #paradiseplant #palms #houseplantlove #pattern #colour #colourpop #arttherapy #illustratorsofinstagram #dundee #scotland #scottishartist

NOT TO BE MISSED!! Join us on the 30th & 31st of May for the ultimate online indie shopping experience from artisans based in Scotland. 🌿 Sign up to the #TeaGreenMarketplace group on Facebook to keep up to date with all the latest new and to shop at our online Marketplace launch weekend!! 🌿 Delighted to be a part of this @teagreenevents market. See you next weekend! 💚🌿 . . Pop over to my Facebook page for the link if you’re struggling to find the group! . . #teagreenevents #whimsicallush #onlinemarket #artisansmarket #artmarket #makersmarket #marketplace #illustration #ceramics #pottery #jewellery #wood #skincare #homeware #stationary #print #textiles #glass #scotland #dundee #edinburgh #glasgow #aberdeen #scottishartisans #scottishartist

Time for a spot of roof tiling! 💚🌿 Plus I’m curious - I haven’t asked in a while what sort of things you most enjoy seeing on here. Anything you’d like to see more or less of? More/less work in progress? More/less things for sale on Etsy & RedBubble like prints, enamel pins n the likes)? Behind the scenes? Go on... I’d love to hear your thoughts. 💚🌿

Progress... Also accidentally co-ordinating with my painting! 😅🌿 . . #whimsicallush #illustration #hobbithousetable #commission #pattern #leaves #trees #bushes #colourpop #rainbow #timelapse #wip #linework #🌈 #🌿 #🌱 #🌳 #🌲 #illustratoroninstagram #illustratorsofinstagram #loveillustration #scotland

Fell into the rainbow again! 🌈😆 The wait for new fine pens was worth it - leaves and pattern making for hours! So much more fun than layers and layers of painting colour. The #hobbithousetable is finally starting to come together. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💕

She’s finished! The sweetest little inky sea monster is finished, framed and now living in her new home. 🖤 I loved creating her - and word has it that she went down a proper treat as a gift from a very thoughtful friend for a rather special birthday! 💙💦

Time for the fun part - lots of lovely black ink on paper! My little sea horse is starting to spring to life. I’m slowly coming around to enjoying drawing digitally more, especially for sketching out ideas and concepts, but nothing will ever quite replace that feeling of putting ink onto paper for me. It also feels a lot more of an adventure too as there is no undo button! Is it just me? What do you prefer? Digital vs analogue? 🖤

A quick digi sketch for a wee inky commission to give a rough idea of what the finished piece would look like. (Swipe for a portion of the timelapse if you like that messy sketchy process kinda thing too ☺️). . . Never drawn a seahorse before (apart from a fun punk rockin dude waaay back 😅). Really quite loving it so might actually finish this drawing and add more to it? What do you reckon? I’m thinking some seaweeds and maybe even a splash of colour? But then again black and white is so 😍.

Welcome to Zoe’s house, where the little bird is always singing high up on the rooftop, the humpback bridge echoes the songs of the burbling burn at the bottom of the garden and there is love and laughter inside. 🎶💚🌿

At the bottom of the garden, just beyond the wall, was an old humpback bridge with a little burn running under it. (I wonder if any trolls live under it too? 😆) . . #whimsicallush #sneakpeek #bridge #humpbackbridge #commission #wip #inkdrawing #inkart #ink #penandink #blackandwhite #pattern #texture #garden #walledgarden #whimsical #illustratorsoninstagram #illustratorsofinstagram #allaboutthedetails

One little bird has been singing from the rooftop! Did you hear her? . . #whimsicallush #illustration #wip #commission #bird #rooftop #chimney #pattern #texture #tiles #blackandwhite #detail #illustratorsoninstagram #penandink #blackworknow

@creative_dundee have been brilliant (as always) at keeping everyone connected and thinking, helping signpost funding, shouting about projects and generally just being fab, especially over these weird times. . . I love being part of #AmpsDundee and very grateful for the lovely shout out in the @creative_dundee May Newsletter. Thanks guys! . . Here’s what they say about Amps: “The Amps Community is filled with amazing people and organisations doing creative work around Scotland and beyond, take a quick look into the excellent projects coming out of the community, and join us!” (Creative Dundee). . . Back in November a wee team of 4 Dundee illustrators pitched to the Amps community for a collaborative project called @stamp_dundee We couldn’t believe it when we were voted for. 😁 It was meant to be taking place this month as part of @dundeemonthofdesign but things happened, you know, so it’s been put on hold until we can all be in the same room together again to draw, collaborate, bring together our images of Dundee and get you guys to put your stamp on it too! @louisekirbydesign @darlingbyname and @pamelaprints are my stamp buddies - do pop over and check out our project. (Also I must do my wee instatakeover on there soon too #slacking 😅). . . Anyway... rambling now! Take care and stay safe! 😘💚🌿 . . #whimsicallush #illustration #creativedundee #dundee #creativity #creatives #communityspirit #creativecommunity #collaboration #stampdundee

#Repost @teagreenevents for @whimsicallush #TeaGreenTakeover 💚🌿 ・・・ Let’s talk pattern! I love playing with pattern in my work too. Whether it’s dancing birds on tote bags and zip bags, monstera leaves tumbling across the cover of a notebook, tree leaves and flower beds that bounce and repeat, funky knitted jumpers worn by the best dressed kabouters and penguins or a floral mandala... I’ve enjoyed playing about with them all. . . This year has seen my patterns appear on fabric, which has led to a brilliant collaboration with my studio neighbour @once_upon_a_wardrobe who beautifully sews my bags for me. Maybe you saw them at the Tea Green event at @vadundee in the winter? They went down a storm. We were delighted. I’d love to focus on more fabric designs later in the year, there are some ideas bubbling that are desperate to get out! . . @whimsicallush #teagreentakeover . . #whimsicallush #illustration #surfacepatterndesign #design #fabricdesign #stationary #dundee #journal #bujo #nightcircus

#Repost @teagreenevents from the @whimsicallush #TeaGreenTakeover ・・・ My illustrations are often wearable too... here is the latest @whimsicallush enamel pin collection. There is something really quite special about the process of turning an illustration into a solid piece that you can hold and wear. (They are also a whole heap of fun to design). . . #TeaGreenTakeover #whimsicallush #illustration #enamelpin #design #wearableart #dundee #scotland #pingame #circus #rainbow #cloud #toadstool #bothy #cute

#Repost @teagreenevents #TeaGreenTakeover ・・・ Hi! @whimsicallush back again for today’s #TeaGreenTakeover 💚🌿 . . My illustrations are very often nature and architecture inspired but this list is by no means exhaustive. I love the little details in life that often go unnoticed and giving them a place. I often draw from ‘real life’ but I do love to let my brain ramble free and draw from my imagination, sometimes without even sketching anything out. Then it feels like I’m off on an adventure - in ink! Ha ha! . . This first illustration is one of my newest and has been a fun one to work on in between commissioned pieces. For those of you who know Dundee you’ll be able to spot some well known buildings and landmarks. #SunnyDundee will continue to grow as I work on more buildings this year! I love having ongoing projects to work away on in the background. . . A lot of my work is black and white, I love that you really see all those details when it’s monochrome but I also love to play with bright bold colours too. Sunny Dundee is a good example of me mixing the two, whilst the monochrome ‘Secret Garden’ is firmly two tone! The last of the slides is a snippet of the ‘Rainbow City’ It was a challenge I set myself to really push my use of colour and I really enjoyed it. . . #whimsicallush #illustration #Dundee #Scotland #illustratorsoninstagram #buildings #architecture #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #plants #rainbow #colour

#Repost @teagreenevents #TeaGreenTakeover 💚🌿 ・・・ Welcome to the @whimsicallush studio (the tidy half! 😅). I’m based in Meadow Mill, Dundee alongside lots of other amazing creatives, including the @waspsdundee gang. This is one of my favourite places to hide out and can be found here at ridiculous hours if I’m engrossed in a piece of work. I feel incredibly lucky to have a space where I can both exhibit and create my work. I took this clip just before an open studios day. . . It wasn’t always this way, I’d dreamt of having my own studio for years as I worked from a cramped corner of my living room at home. I reckon this has made me appreciate my plant filled hideaway even more. I must admit I’m missing it an awful lot right now. . . Do you have a studio or do you work from home? . . #whimsicallush #teagreentakeover #whereiwork #studio #studiolife #hideaway #plantlove #illustration #illustration #illustratorsoninstagram #Dundee #Scotland

Morning! I’m doing today’s #teagreentakeover over on @teagreenevents and thought it might be a nice way to introduce myself to the new folks here too! 💚🌿 So, hi! 👋 I’m an illustrator based in sunny Dundee. This is me with one of my larger pieces from a pretty big project I finished in February - but more of that in a bit. Time to get the kettle on. Tea anyone? x . . #whimsicallush #teagreen #illustration #instatakeover #illustratorsoninstagram #deer #selfportrait #dundee

Nestled amongst the blossoms of the old plum tree was a tiny little house. The roof was made from pressed foxglove flowers and the bricks carved from dried snow berries. . . The little house was built for the kindest girl that anyone had ever met. Each roof tile carefully carved and put gently into place in the hope that their warm pink glow would bring her a little smile and warm her heart when times were tough and she needed it the most. 💕 . . #whimsicallush #sculpture #foxglove #modelmaking #tinyhouse #whimsical #plumblossom #plumtree #spring #illustration #3dmodel #clay

❤️ Red ❤️ 🎶 Red Sails... 🎶 I started on yellow for the @fadd.creatives rainbow challenge so thought it would be nice to finish my rainbow before their next challenge starts on Monday (Head over, join in!) So here are some of my fav red treats... . . ❤️ Enamel pins - I love making these lil pieces of wearable art to share with you. Here’s the bothy that was inspired by all the little bothies you find scattered throughout the Scottish Glens. Just up the road from Dundee we’ve even got our own @theginbothy! . . ❤️ The circus and night circus pins have proven to be a big hit too - especially with #NightCircus fans! #erinmorgenstern #book . . ❤️ Tiny enamel toadstools are always going to pop up in my pin collections... I tend to hide wee shrooms in most of my illustrations (have you noticed? 😅🍄). . . ❤️ The scarlet red cotton lining of the dancing birds zip bags contrasts and clashes so happily with the #Marrsgreen fabric. These bags are beautifully sewn for me by my studio neighbour @once_upon_a_wardrobe and fit so much in. I use mine for my pens and wee notebooks and I know others are in use for sewing, makeup and more... . . ❤️ My #kabouter sports a cosy red jumper in his 3D wooden world #diorama. I loved the tales of these Dutch gnomes that my Oma told me when I was a tot. I wrote a bit about him and my Oma on my website. . . ❤️ Lil Red and Wolf - the best of unlikely friends feature in wooden worlds too as well as hardback journals. Love playing with splashes of colour! #etsyshop . . ❤️ ‘Shroom with a View’ an oldie but still a fav with me and you guys too. @poppybubbles_scotland particularly loves it - check out the wonderful clay version she made me! 🥰😍🍄 . . ❤️ #WeeMaggie was shouting about #worldpenguinday yesterday & @maggiespenguinparade @wildinart. She and her friends helped raise so much for @maggiesdundee in 2018. . . ❤️ Check out the awesome #whimsicallushcollaboration with @dmstff - you can join in too. Check out website for info. . . ❤️ Last but not least - my lil scruffy studio pal @lupinlurcher on her red couch! 🥰🥰🥰🥰 . . Stay Safe 💚🌿😘 #gnome #penguin #bothy #toadstool #lupinlurcher #enamelpin #circus #Sunday #staysafe

🎶💜 Purple rain... ☔️ 💜🎶 Guess what colour it is today for the @fadd.creatives rainbow? Yup, it’s not orange! . . Turns out I don’t really use a heap of purple in my work but I do have a few wee creations all a glowin with today’s colour. . . . 💜 Another one of my new enamel pin collection - this time the sweetest of dinky wee houses, which sports a detailed purple roof and door! (You can find them in my Etsy shop) 💜 . . 💜 The purple dancing birds tote bags have been so popular that they’ve all sold out. Hopefully @once_upon_a_wardrobe and I will get making more soon. 💜 . . 💜 The last two pics are a bit fuzzy as my crazy wee sidekick @lupinlurcher was far more interested in chasing the bumble bees in the purple lavender than posing for a photo! Can’t blame her really! 😆💜 . . I’ve been enjoying this excuse to rummage through my work for colours for the @fadd.creatives #rainbow I hope you’ve enjoyed it too. I missed the red and orange days though so might go rummage for them to complete my rainbow too! Albeit a slightly wonky one... Ach I like wonky. Wonky is good for the soul right? 😆 . . Have a good Saturday! Hope you’re safe and sound. 😘 . . #whimsicallush #lupinlurcher #etsy #etsysellersofinstagram #funaday #pattern #enamelpin #cutepin #totebag #textiledesign #fabricdesign #dundee #scotland #lurcher #lavender #flower #purple #birds #stayhome #stayhomestaysafe

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