Tracy’s Tailormade Tea Towel - the devil’s in the detail

The full picture

The client’s shop

A local and not-so-local vintage

Toby

Traditional Indian motif

Close-up of the weave and tea plant flower

Australia map

Polo player

Pooh bear

I’ve been asked to show some of the detail in this tea towel close-up, so here are the shots showing some of the many small illustrations that make up parts of the whole...

Tracy’s tailormade tea towel - printed sample

Tracy’s tailormade tea towel printed in a verdant green  © Peter Gander 2012

Tailormade tea towel - final art

Tailormade tea towel  © Peter Gander

Following on from a recent post where I showed this design as a pencil drawing/scamp, here’s the final artwork ready to be turned into a screen for printing (it will print green). Hand-painted brush and ink with hand-drawn marker on layout paper, scanned and reconstructed digitally.

Tailormade tea towel v2.0

v2.0 Tailormade tea towel  © Peter Gander 2012

This is version 2 scamp/pencil, revealing a new banner message and slightly tweaked details elsewhere. Soft Derwent pencil on Canson tracing paper.

Tailormade Tea Towel: Tracy’s ‘T’

v1.0 scamp for Tracy’s tea towel  © Peter Gander 2012

During our show at Olympia last week, we were commissioned to come up with a bespoke tea towel design (1 colour) as a keepsake for a client hosting a party in Sussex at the end of June. This is the first stage sketch, or ‘scamp’ as we call them in the trade. This’ll print in green on white cotton. The client’s name is Tracy and she is also conveniently nicknamed ‘T’, a perfect excuse for a ‘T’ towel if ever I heard one. Not only that but tea plantations are part of the family business, so a tea towel doesn’t get much more apt than this! Soft pencil on layout paper.