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Caroline McArthur

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Is it breakfast? Is it a tropical storm at a picnic? Is it tiny ants carrying away your stuff? 🐜 🐜 🐜

It’s just The Big Race! Don’t ask questions!!!
🚨 can I get a PLO PLO PLOOO for my first 2023 personal artwork!!! 🚨

I’m turning these into a print for a shirt, heavily inspired by one my brother-in-law has. Only mine will be The Big Race themed, and probably have more birds than his. 

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hello I'm still alive and here are some grapes I got printed on fabric πŸ‡

they're going to become a two piece outfit and I'm going to drink wine while wearing it and the whole thing will be quite marvelous and disturbing!
a moth's glory cape in progress 🐞

#freethemoth #mothemojiactivist #whyisthereamosquitoemoji #mothsarepeopletoo 

swipe to see the biggest moth I've ever encountered in my fricken LIFE 

#illustragram #illustrationoftheday #illustrationprocess #pain
o hi it's me, been a while! I still make stuff but I don't care so much whether you know about it, internet!

here are some tomatties because 'tis finally the season πŸ… at some point I'm going to paint over that charcoal leaf (you know which one) in
nothin like an old vine zin huh πŸ‡πŸ·β 
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jk I don't speak wine but people do say this, don't they!⁠
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#collageillustration #wineillustration #illustragram #illustrationoftheday #illustrationprocess #paintingillustration #watercolourpenci
reunited with my beloved nasturtium tangle and it feels so guuuuuud 🀑

back to work this week after a delightfully full, busy, travel-heavy, foodcentric holiday and I'm BUZZIN
fantastical tomatties in multicolour, on wood panel, destined to become a very fun wallpaper pattern.... but after my holiday πŸ…βœŒπŸΌβ 
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#tomatopainting #tomatofabric #tomatowallpaper #botanicalpattern #textiledesign #surfacedesign #customf
it's a wee hat in my Nasturtium buds print! 

I reckon this print would make the best wallpaper, all zazzy and bright but also somewhat serene.
lil colour and texture study of a passion flower with a lotta artistic license taken because WHY NOT + I had a lot of fun doing all these wiggles

all my faaaavourite colours in one place mm-mm-mmmm πŸ”ΊπŸ¦œπŸ†
if one were to, say, make an oversized shirt covered in miscellaneous crabs holding different varieties of seaweed, which buttons should one choose?

#crabfabric #rockpooling #memadefabric #memadewardrobe #printdesigner #textiledesign #surfacedesign
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I don't think I shared this guy last year - I just wrapped up another wee full page illo for @grandjournal and was reminded of this fella, who still lives on the wall of my garage studio. Swipe for article info! 

My first ~hand-painted~ edi
tell me what this does to your eyes πŸ‘€  and would you wear it? ⁠
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#brushstrokewiggles #textiledesign #surfacedesign #customfabricdesign #surfacedesigner #textiledesigner #illustratedfabric #illustragram #illustrationprocess #paintingillu
hello I liek to paint

I've been slowly adding a lil #bts action (as in, behind the scenes not the boyband) to my website + sharing some of the design process for each surface design, including this stunna.

Link in ma bio if you wanna check em out/s
latest lil pattern design for Polychrome @forpoly in 6 different colourways!⁠
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not ma usual style really -- I'm definitely still finding the balance between designing for certain briefs and making things that feel like mine. It's a healthy tension a
 
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