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Green and Yellow Geometric Mandala Pattern

I always enjoy creating mandala art, and one nice thing about mandalas is that they usually work well as repeating patterns as well as standalone designs. So I’m making seamless patterns from some of my […]

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Brown Squiggly Circles Pattern

Now I’m back on a pattern kick, here’s another new one that I made yesterday. This also has warm autumn colours, this time browns, beige and a bit of plum purple and brownish pink. The […]

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Green, White, Red and Peach Spots Pattern

I realised the other day that I haven’t made any new patterns this year, other than for my new colouring books. The ones I’ve been posting on here are all older designs. I actually had […]

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Purple, Grey and White Abstract Kaleidoscope Colouring Page

This is another coloured page from my fifth colouring book, Through the Kaleidoscope. The illustrations in this book are basically full page abstract mandalas, and you can see them all here. This design is one […]

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Vase and Cylinder – Painting Exercise #7

This is the seventh painting for Block 1 of the Evolve Artist course that I started few weeks ago. This exercise continues to practice sharp edges, gradients, and recognising the four basic values. I actually […]

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Free Abstract Geometric Pattern Printable Colouring Page

Here is another free colouring page to print at home, this time from my book Geometric Patterns (Volume 2). I’ve been a bit slow to get around to posting about this, as I published the […]

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Geometric Shapes – Painting Exercise #6

I finished the next exercise for the art course I began recently. And I really screwed this one up! It’s not as obvious in this photo as in the actual painting, but I badly messed […]

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Brown, Orange and Yellow Simple Mandala Colouring Page

This is another easy mandala design, this time from my second kids’ book, Magic Mandalas 2. I coloured it a bit differently than normal, creating a thin line and stipple fill with Staedtler Triplus fine […]

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Sphere – Painting Exercise #5

I just finished another assignment for the art course I’m doing. This is exercise five from Block 1, and is a simple greyscale sphere. It’s painted in oil on canvas, and it’s safe to say […]

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Free Easy Giraffe Colouring Page for Kids

Here is another free printable colouring page, taken from my newest colouring book, Very Easy Animal Faces Colouring Book for Toddlers and Young Kids. It features a cute giraffe face, with strong lines and large […]

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Cubes – Exercise for My New Art Course

I recently started the Evolve Artist online course. I’d been considering it for quite a while, but put it off because I was busy with my colouring books and other stuff. But I know there […]

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Blue and Green Easy Mandala Colouring Page

This simple mandala colouring page is from my first mandala book for children, Magic Mandalas. Of course it’s not just for kids – anyone who likes mandalas with large spaces will enjoy the book, and […]

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Green, Brown and Burgundy Mandala Colouring Page

This coloured mandala has a mix of warm earth tones, including brown, green and burgundy red. The design is from my book Abstract Mandalas, which has fifty original mandala pages that you can preview here. […]

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Red, Grey and White Abstract Kaleidoscope Colouring Page

I coloured this abstract kaleidoscope design in a simple red, grey and white colour scheme, using Tombow brush markers. I like colourful palettes, but sometimes it’s just as much fun to stick with a more […]

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Free Simple Pattern Printable Colouring Page

The page in the photo below is another free colouring page download, this time from my recent book Easy Geometric Patterns (Volume 2), which came out earlier this year. The patterns in this book all […]

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Blue Spiral Abstract Pattern

This is a repeating spiral pattern that I drew last year in Procreate, with a chalk spiral motif in light blue on a darker blue background. Even though it’s very simple, it’s one of my […]

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Green and White Chalk Leaves Pattern

This is a simple repeating pattern design, with a white leaf motif on a green background. I drew it in Procreate using a chalk brush, so it has a nice textured look. This simple leaf […]

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Green, White and Black Geometric Pattern

This is another geometric pattern that I made several years ago, for my first colouring book Geometric Patterns. The pattern in the current book is different to this one (I updated some of the designs […]

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Black and White Doodle Flower Pattern

This is another of the repeating patterns that I made last year. I drew this one in Procreate on my iPad. It has cute doodle floral and leaf motifs in black, on a white background. […]

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Blue and White Geometric Pattern

I created this geometric pattern a few years ago, as part of my first colouring book, Geometric Patterns. It has a rounded motif in shades of blue, on a white background. It has a bit […]

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Turquoise Blue and Green Flower Pattern

This is a stylised flower pattern in turquoise blue and green, on a white background. I drew in in the iOrnament app on my iPad a few months ago. I like this app a lot, […]

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Candy Flower Pink Floral Pattern

Here is another repeating pattern design that I made using the iOrnament app on my iPad. It has pink and yellow flowers with green leaves, on a white background. The colour palette is a bit […]

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New – Very Easy Animal Faces Colouring Book

It’s new book time! I recently published my latest colouring book, Very Easy Animal Faces Colouring Book for Toddlers and Young Kids. The title is pretty self-explanatory – it has thirty cute cartoon animal portraits, […]

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Orange and Black Mandala Pattern

I drew this orange mandala a few years ago, and didn’t originally plan to make it into a pattern. But after playing with it a bit, I thought it worked well as a simple repeat. […]

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Olive Green and Brown Geometric Pattern

I made this geometric pattern for my first colouring book six years ago, and decided to colour it in digitally so I could add it to my stores. I’d like to do this with most […]

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Red and Pink Hearts Pattern

This is a simple repeating heart pattern with pale pink hearts on a bright red background. I drew the hearts in Procreate using a chalk brush, giving them a soft fluffy appearance. I did think […]

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Blue, Green and White Spots Pattern

This repeating spot pattern has an irregular spot motif in blue and green, on a white background. I made it a few years ago, and also have a version in red, orange and yellow. I […]

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Red, Black and White Hexagonal Geometric Pattern

My first colouring book was geometric pattern designs, and I’ve been adding colour to some of them to sell in my stores. This one is a bold hexagonal design in black, white and red, with […]

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Black and Purple Spot Pattern

The other day I posted one of my older spot patterns, and this one was made at the same time, several years ago. It has colourful pink, purple and white dots on a black background, […]

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Blue Spots Pattern

Here is an old pattern, that I made several years ago. It’s a simple repeating pattern with blue and white spots on a medium blue background. Of all pattern motifs, spots are among my favourites. […]