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Description
A surface pattern design of cats on holiday in Barcelona with cute motifs of some typical touristy things.
Year Created
2022
Location
Algarve, PortugalColors
Pale YellowRedBlueWhiteYellowLight GreenTan
Materials & Tools
iPad ProProcreateDigital illustration
Search Terms
travelkidspattern surface designbarcelonaholidayillustrationcatshand letteringcutefun
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Lee-Anne Schmidt
Barcelona, Spain
I love to create different kinds of art. The medium and subject matter changes depending on the story, my mood and what I am being inspired by. I love telling stories with collage and creating scenarios that wouldn’t ordinarily exist or make sense in the real world. It’s the perfect medium for the imagination to play with. With collage, anything is possible. You can take a vintage car, or a boat, or a bath, and fill it with all kinds of strange and wonderful characters and place it anywhere in the world, regardless of gravity or practicality. I love playing with paper, scissors and glue, and creating crazy, fun, worlds with all my favourite things. And sometimes I like to create one-off pieces of art - something abstract, a landscape, bold shapes.
I love illustrating children’s books and creating cute characters and dressing them up or putting clothes and hats on fish or animals. As a surface pattern designer, I also love seeing art come to life on fabric and seeing the shapes and characters tell a story: art that moves and sees people, goes out for lunch, plays in the garden. There’s something wonderful about seeing people wearing art as clothing. It’s not the same as a static painting on a wall that is only visible to those standing in front of it. With surface pattern design, the people wearing it are the walls, the space.
Travel and nature fuels and excites me - and I also feel that the places I have called home have shaped and influenced me in many ways: South Africa, Italy, Spain, Australia, Portugal. I currently live between The Algarve, Portugal and Barcelona, Spain - which is the perfect backdrop for my creative play.