Purple Moon and Pink Bird

Ok so it's not an Easter related post. Thankfully.

Photos of graffiti near the MA building
at Northumbria Uni's main campus in Newcastle.
Their quite pretty I think and on a nice scribble black background,
keeping with graffiti aesthetics.

And look that little pink purple blob is trying to make its way to the drains!

Round, blue and white

Christmas is upon us –
or so the Newcastle City Centres’ decoration tells me.
That and the Fenwicks window display.
The decorations in town are normally quite typical,
but these blue circular baubles like motifs
are the most interesting and pretty
both when lit up and when not lit.

They look like a collection of flatish bubbles, or even baubles,
in blue, white and light blue
and using simple geometric shapes and dots to fill them.

Their clear modern cut styling stands out against
the backdrop of the beautiful Newcastle upon Tyne’s historic buildings
in the town centre, like in monument.

It’s interesting to find pattern
where most feel there is nothing special there,
but the fact that these shapes have been used
shows their versatility, they work amongst things
that don’t directly relate to them in shape form or colour.

Eye-holes on shutters at 'Reid & Sons'

I'm not one for jewlery (at the moment),
except for clever studs and of course bangles,
but I seem to be drawn to a jewellers windows much like any other person.
Again most likely because of my magpieism (attracted to sparkly and shiny things).

I think this clever way of closing shutters on the shop, helping to not entice prospective theives, but still including groupings of dots cut out of the shutters,
which really should just entice prospective customers to have a closer look.    

Or at least it succeeded in doing that to me...

Back to simple stuff; dots and prints

 This summer I've been looking more into pattern on fabric,
mostly as at the moment those patterns are
more at hand and are interesting in some way or form. 
This fabric (above and below) is a form of Koshibo fabric,
this is a Japanese fabric and has a lovely small pebble like texture to it when looking closely.

The two yellows are quite subtle in terms of brightness
and as usual for any colour look great with black.
The simple flower motif is repeated on the darker yellow cloth, but there are two different sized motifs being used, one that is slightly bigger and lets more of the yellow show through and the other smaller letting more black through.

I seem to have an interest in the colour purple.

I'm fascinated with mixing that colour,

most recently in watercolour but a few months back in oil paint.

Here the dark blue-purple flowers seem to be wearing a white beaded necklace around their inner core area, this could be showing the very tips of the stamens of the flower, or perhaps like I first thought purely decorative, something actually found on a real flower or made up.

The range of purples, deep, mid and blueish tinted brings great depth to the fabric itself.

All the fabrics here are polyester based fabrics that though isn't great for hot weather, makes a great fabric type to print on and also in retaining dye.

This fabric can easily be put into the washing machine.

Where as anything cotton based tends to leak dye very easily in watter/rain, as you will notice with jeans and your now blue trainers.