Micklyn Magnets

ornamental pattern. colouring

Colorful, glowing, bioluminescent painted jellyfish on a dark navy background.

Leaves, flowers, butterflies and birds hand drawn with pencil and painted with watercolors.

A pattern of watercolor painted butterflies with tiny fruit markings on their wings, in purple, aqua, pink and blue on white.

Over-sized deep cyan, teal and sapphire blue textured leaves with linework doodles and decorations and salmon pink, white & crimson hibiscus flowers.

A bright, colorful, multi-directional pattern of roller skates, little rainbows and stars in shades of teal blue, orange, pink, black, white + mint.

A cute little illustration of a purple, mandala decorated elephant on a tropical jungle adventure, with palm and banana leaves and bird of paradise flowers.

This is one of three colorways of this floral pattern - this version is for color lovers. : ) The other two are more toned down. Created from hand drawn pencil illustrations.

Just for fun and, well, because kittens are better than multivitamins.

A bright, colorful, abstracted and textured landscape with trees and birds - scattered swallows in flight against a surreal sunset sky.

A colorful collage of watercolor elements - flowers, leaves & butterflies in shades of emerald green, teal, pink, plum & coral on dark purple.

Inspired by folk art and embroidery, a retro floral pattern in deep indigo, cream, coral, red and brown.

I wanted to do a work reminiscent of a mosaic made of brightly coloured, highly detailed and patterned ceramic tiles. I used bits and pieces of my own hand drawn patterns to decorate them. : )

I love sparrows. A lot. : ) I’ve had this idea, to do a bird-in-flight pattern, in my head for a long time, but it took me ages to get the courage to begin, because it was a LOT of work, and took a long time. This is the monochrome / black and white version.

Cute and colorful chameleons (not very well camouflaged) in teal and turquoise blue grass with little pink, purple and orange flowers.

A collage of textured, tie-dye, pastel hibiscus flowers and leaves on a stripy background. Yellow, pink, cream, teal, purple and turquoise.

Sweet little dinosaurs in dark orange and blue purple, surrounded by white flowers and orange and blue rainbows with smudgy chalk pastel texture.

Created with artists' dual-tip brush markers & finished digitally - I like the way the markers create variety in the thickness of my line work.

A colorful patchwork created using recent patterns of mine.

A pattern of sage, caramel, tan, mint, cream and blue fish scale Art Deco inspired shapes, with subtle watercolor texture and yellow gold outlines.

Lots of large textured, painted, happy bright yellow sunflowers with dark centers and green leaves on a cream background.

A fun, textured, geometric, faux gilded enamel design in shades of gold, yellow, jade, emerald, mint green, black, white, turquoise blue and coral.

A paper cutout collage of textured hand-painted botanical elements - fresh garden pea pods, leaves and flowers in dark emerald green and purple.

A Swedish folk art inspired design with birds, leaves, hearts & flowers. Colors are light powder blue, turquoise, white, coral red, white & orange.

Lots of happy, orange tigers with turquoise, blue and navy charcoal elements - hearts, flowers and monstera leaves - in a naive art style.

Cute baby African elephants, surrounded by sweet egret bird friends with olive green leaves & tiny flowers on deep navy blue / indigo.

Magenta, pink and peach roses with charcoal grey leaves, hand painted with watercolor paints on a black background.

I asked my Dad what he thought I should call this one, so the title is his. He told me he sees stained glass, something a little bit gothic, a pattern a little bit art deco. : )

A hand painted watercolor mandala / medallion in soft pastel shades of purple, blue and aqua on white.

Lost a couple of hours in my day just sitting and painting little, joined, watercolor hearts, what a pleasure. Finished up in Photoshop. : )

A collage of mountains, clouds, raindrops, moon and stars in shades of charcoal, grey, blue, cream, white and black, with texture and linework.

Hexagons are so fascinating, the patterns they make! they make me think of children's building blocks, bees & honeycomb, boxes, diamonds, triangles, stairs & steps - love them! : )

My son told me that this is unprofessional work. But I'm posting anyway. If you can't have some fun making unprofessional puppy patterns then pattern making is not for you. :P

A textured autumn botanical print with white pumpkins, anemones and chrysanthemum flowers in shades of cream, burgundy red, grey-blue and pink.

All the things you need to go camping or hiking - tent, sunglasses, boots, binoculars, a compass, coffee mug, thermoss, satchel... a cute girly pattern for outdoors people. : )

Hand drawn and coloured in Photoshop CS2.