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Moira Carter
Apr 12, 20211 min read
Seashells – a perennial favourite
I've been thinking about the sea quite a bit just recently, I'm missing it, and this led me to thoughts of seashells. I've had a few...
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Moira Carter
Aug 6, 20201 min read
Pattern perfect!
It's August, it's time for Summer School with Make It In design. I've taken this twice before, it's always challenging and great fun and...
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Moira Carter
May 6, 20193 min read
Serendipity - the happy accident!
Horace Walpole proposed this 'new' word in 1754 – after reading The three princes of Serendip, a fairy tale in which the heroes were...
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Moira Carter
Jan 25, 20191 min read
Something new!
It's a New Year and January looks like this - a new collection - and some of these and a couple of variations have already been submitted...
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Moira Carter
Oct 26, 20181 min read
I've never grown up!
Some of you may have noticed I've been revamping the website and have been through several transitions. The first move was to update my...
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Moira Carter
Oct 14, 20181 min read
Home again, home again...
Gosh, it's the second week of October and I bet you're all wondering where I've been since my last post ...well I've been...
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Moira Carter
Aug 4, 20181 min read
Inspiring Artist of the day - Jon Eric Riis
Now and again I buy a magazine, not any magazine but something inspiring like Selvedge, Embroidery, Ceramics Review or Crafts. In the...
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Moira Carter
May 17, 20182 min read
Process : From the top! Part 2
Now sometimes things do not go to plan, I start on one track and end up on another ...with something quite different. So I left you in...
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Moira Carter
May 17, 20182 min read
Process : From the top! Part 1
Or how I created my latest fabric design for Spoonflower. I read the contest brief – Using at least two of the colors from the palette...
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Moira Carter
Apr 23, 20183 min read
Process - STOP sowing, START sewing
Indulging in more Bootcamp loveliness with Lilla Rogers over at Make Art That Sells, and this month's mini assignment had us...
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Moira Carter
Mar 27, 20182 min read
A Heroine - Madeline McDowell Breckinridge
Bootcamping again with Make Art That Sells, and this months assignment was Suffragettes. I was given Madeline (Madge) McDowell...
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Moira Carter
Jan 28, 20181 min read
Elephant on Holiday!
The brief was to create an animal for a small child's T shirt. My first idea was a giraffe saying Hi! and the second was an elephant in a...
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Moira Carter
Jan 18, 20181 min read
The Sketchbook Project 2018
Part of a Global Interactive Art Library which contains over 36,000 sketchbooks, from more than 100 countries, within the walls of the...
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Moira Carter
Jan 15, 20181 min read
How to illustrate a children's book : Part 3
Week four: The next decision was which part of the book I should illustrate, and I did these rough sketches of a scene where Eleanor...
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Moira Carter
Jan 9, 20181 min read
How to illustrate a children's book : Part 2
Weeks two and three I drew Eleanor some more and got to know her and how she would look when she laughed, smiled, cried or when she was...
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Moira Carter
Jan 2, 20181 min read
How to illustrate a children's book : Part 1
It seems ages since I told you all I was taking an online course with Make Art That Sells in Children's book Illustration, it was in...
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Moira Carter
Dec 12, 20171 min read
Merry Christmas!
I was talking to my Aunt the other day and she reminded me that she has kept every Christmas card I have made and sent to her ...and that...
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Moira Carter
Sep 14, 20171 min read
I made it!
As you all know I've been indulging in some CPD – Continuing Professional Development – with a wee twist, five fun and information packed...
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Moira Carter
Jan 31, 20173 min read
Make Art That Sells
Unashamed plug for Lilla Rogers MATS courses. CPD for Illustrators! Being an artist is not the Bohemian dream some people think it is or...
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Moira Carter
Nov 17, 20161 min read
Drawn by desire
I recently read The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, in it there is a mention of a map signed by the cartographer who added "drawn by...
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