Fairytale Fauna Final Collection Part 4 : Exhibition ♡

Hello petals! Hope your all enjoying the sunshine! Loving life in Brighton, finally feeling like spring/summer! Friday was the private view and opening of the Grande Parade exhibition which showcased all final collections and pieces from the faculty of arts (as aforementioned in previous posts), it was so lovely seeing everyones work finally and felt like the concluding chapter to a super intense year! Here's a few snaps of my space :) Don't forget to check it out if your around Brighton! 

(1st - 12th) Grand Parade

 ♡ Brighton Faculty of Arts Graduate Show ♡

Have wonderful weeks! Lots of love x x x

Fairytale Fauna Final Collection Part 1 : Drawings ♡

Hello lovelies! - So finally I am free and able to come back to blogging! - After the most intense year with what feels like I've been living in pastel bubble world (and a total roller coaster!) my Printed Textiles degree at Brighton is finally complete!! - the Fairytale Fauna collection is all done and ready to exhibit, with the private view next week (eeek!!)

 & the public show straightaway afterwards as part of The University of Brighton Degree Show (1st - 12th June at Grand Parade Building Brighton) - opposite the Royal Pavilion :) 

♡ Brighton Faculty of Arts Graduate Show ♡

and London show will then be beginning on the 25th at Candid Arts Angel Islington, Please do pop along :) there are so many pretty things to see in the degree show! <3 I'll pop up more info on both very soon!

I'm currently in a total state of relief/excitement/exhaustion, & feel like theres so much I could write about I'm not sure where to even start! But I'm really excited to get my pastely pink fairytale vision out there ^_^ 

It all began with an influx of inspiration from all things Japanese and cute, a continual love for deer and pastel colours, fairytales and otherworldliness. It's all based around my drawings and their delicacy, So think I'll begin with a mini taster of some drawings :) Hope you like!

My pastel pencil drawings have resulted being the main focus within my fabric designs (more on those later) :

My pen drawings were used as visual research to visualise the story and world I was creating and to back up other illustrations and themes in my prints, helping to strengthen the vision of the collection :)

These little creatures are enchanted forest spirits ghostly lingering amongst all the cuteness,

Enchanted Rabbit (below), is a large illustration which has just been shortlisted for The Art Republic Visual Arts Prize as part of Brighton Fringe (eeeek!), if any of you lovelies have Facebook your vote would mean so much to me (if you like him!) - you just have to like the image on the Facebook page here:

♡ Visual Arts Prize Facebook Vote ♡

Here's a little snippet of a screen print mid process to finish the post on - I ended up doing mainly digital printing in the end as I wanted so many colours and so much detailed drawing, but when it went right (there were quite a few disastrous colour attempts) screen printing was really pretty and a fun experience carrying it through to this level :)

Anyway, more super soon lovelies! Hope you've all got nice bank holiday weekends planned! Feels so nice to be at home seeing the family chilling out for a little bit - think mine's going to be super chilled! Lots of love x x x

Blush Crush ♡

Soo I'm full blown in my last few months of uni eeek! Poor little blog has still been so abandoned!

There's been so many ups and downs and super stressful moments literally can't wait until it's all over and I'm braved with the real world! Me and Craig are aiming to move to Tokyo and fulfil our dreams! ♡

February is one of my favourite months and despite the crazy business I've had some wonderous sparkly pink fun, so thought I'd do a little post! Starting with some of my creative crushes and inspiration at the moment...

From left to right: super dreamy shoes!, different types of cherry blossom, Natalie Portman shot by Tim Walker, the beautiful artwork of Andy Ness, pink galactic skies, Lana Del Rey in Tokyo Numero March editiion, sparkly shoes of dreaaams and heart shaped pink cake!

Hope everyone is having lovely months, did anyone do nice things for valentines day? I always love the romance and sheer amount of pretty things around the shops in February and getting glittered and going somewhere cute! This year me and Craig actually managed to be together on the day! & on the eve before we went to see Kyary Pamyu Pamyu which was so lovely - she is such a brilliant happy bubble of inspiration! We had pink ice cream and yummy Japanese munch on the morn, here are a few little photos :)

  and the beautifulous poster I snapped up at the gig..

& here's a further few snapshots of my recent designing/my world currently consisting of lots of layers of furry collars in this super chilly weather, moodboards of pastel goodness for inspiration and my growing tutu collection!

Much more to come soon (whenever I get chance!) 
You can follow me on instagram and twitter @rosepetaldeer
Hope you like! Lots of love! Happy month of pink! x x x x

Ghosts of gone birds♡

An exciting little event of the past couple of weeks has been my participating in a wonderful new exhibition in Brighton ...opening on 8th November based on the theme of extinct birds. It's super exciting!!!...read more HERE ! !

For my piece I did a detailed drawing of a Dodo which you can see in progress here with me in my room :)

Here's a mini version of my piece! (should be available as a print at the exhibition soon!)

I feel incredibly lucky to be part of such an amazing exhibition of such a variety of super talented artists! Some of the pieces really blew me away! Don't want to reveal too much as I think you all should go visit for yourselves and see some truly beautiful birdy related treats! 

The wonderful lady who I couldn't have done all of this without needs a mention too, the wonderful Debbie, who runs MoonKo an online platform of wonderful artists (I'm again lucky to be part of!)

click here to visit the lovely moonko's page :)

& The wonderful gone birds facebook for previews on more of the pretty art!...GONE BIRDS FACEBOOK <3

Hope you enjoy having a little browse & that everyones having wonderful Monday's!

Lots of love

x x x x

Brighton wonderland & ghostly girls ♡

Afternoon lovelies! Hope you've all had magical weekends! The last few weeks feel like a bit of a whirlwind of getting everything sorted and settled back in Brighton as I mentioned in my previous post!

New things are starting to appear in my shop though : MY ETSY <3

My room is now feeling a lot more like home & I feel properly back into my illustrating! Thought I'd do a little post with a glimpse into my world :) & a few of my newest little drawings of ghostly forest girls I'm working on. If you follow me on instagram @rosepetaldeer you might have seen some of it already <3

I love to surround myself with everything that inspires me so my room is always a continually developing big pink collage of taped up prettiness :)

Me & Tigerlilly Rose <3 My favourite thing I brought back from Tokyo...

The puff here was from a super cute little shop in Brighton, me and my housemates have since discovered how to make them and gone puff making crazy! I'll post a bit about our little house soon so you can see :)

  Pencil ghost girls..

Hope you like! Follow me on twitter @rosepetaldeer or Instagram for more of my pink and sparkly world! I love chatting to new people! Have lovely evenings! Lots of love! x x x x

Sunshine & Curious Hendricks Times ♡

So I was looking through my (few) photos of the weekend and thought I'd do a mini post on my love for Brighton & the absolutely wonderful Hendricks gin tent that me & Craig went to as part of the Brighton Fringe. 

Cocktails made with rose & lychee were my favourite (three of my all time favourites in one glass...and it was pink?! heaven!)

There were so many wonderful interesting people to talk to and the sun was shining super bright! So good!

Heres me & my chap Craig enjoying our gin...

Above (some instagram photos): the bell jars of divinely delicious cocktails at the Hendricks tent mmmm!, some lychee juice I bought from the Oriental supermarket in Brighton, the pier at sunset on Saturday night, and raspberry's I had as part of a picnic.

Hope you've all had lots of lovely fun times, heres an utterly delightful little Hendricks Illustration I found of some interesting types in a boat, big love for Hendricks! x x x