Hear My Heart Break

© Sybille Sterk

Do not copy or publish this in any way, shape or form without my written permission.

Illustration of my poem of the same name. Font is Amatic, as always. The lizard was a tiny common lizard in my garden. The petals are from a peony.

Read the poem here.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

On Society6:

Snow Dreams - New Collection

Available from my Envelop shop

I am not a great fan of Winter unless it’s cold with a blue sky and sun shine…. Here’s my remedy to counteract it, the Snow Dreams collection. Romantic, feminine flower blossoms reminiscent of Spring and Summer in soft, dreamy colours. Who could resist them?

Also available as prints on Redbubble

MCN: CYUV4-3NTPB-1SERL

  

MCN: CKPYE-VJTYT-WKTAD

MCN: CF126-55Y3J-SVFYY

Pattern Mania

I love making patterns and it's something I do a lot, whenever I have a minute, really. I use them as they are or to create the highly textured backgrounds in my paintings. Check out the Origami Dress and you might spot some of the patterns. :-)

Some of them are black and white so I can layer them over colour or use them as a texture for painting my backgrounds, others are coloured.

I've decided to make some 'packs' of PDF patterns available to 'crafty' people to use in scrap booking and greeting card making. They'll be available from my Etsy shop as and when I finish a pack.

There will be highly ornamental packages with patterns like the Art Nouveau spiral below:



Patterns inspired by a country or particular theme, like a Japanese pack that will include patterns like the butterflies and flowers below:



A 'Grunge' pack with textured backgrounds like the two below:



A Gothic pack with things like gargoyles and thorny spirals:


The gargoyles below can be turned upside down for a different effect:



Fossils and other interesting textures and patterns from Nature:





Art Deco pack:

An Oriental themed pack with cherry blossoms, peonies, fans and so on.





Fun packs with cute toys and things that little ones like:

In the colour packs the colours will be coordinated. In the black & white packs different opacities of the pattern and sizes will be provided. Some special packs will include colour and black and white. You will be able to chose A4 or Letter size packs and I will also offer custom packs where you can choose packs with various patterns.

Let me know if you're interested and I'll send you an e-mail when the patterns are ready.

Little Crafts Project

Went to London on Tuesday with Penny (Natural Attrill) and her son Toby. Before we met up with the two of them at the V&A Ben and I went to Covent Garden to look at all the craft stalls and have some lunch.

Couldn't resist to buy some things. One of the things I bought was a little box with wafer thin soap roses in white, that smell of lavender and lemon.

The other thing was a mobile of pink perspex butterflies. I hung it up on the curtain pole next to my computer and it looked very pretty, but very lonely. So, I decided to play with my new laminator, some rose and peony petals from the garden, handmade and tissue paper and invisible string - oh, and because it's me, there had to be some beads, too.

Here's a picture of what I made - light wasn't brilliant, but I think you can still see. The one I bought in London is in the middle.



Here are a couple of close-ups: