Last year, a lot of my monthly themes were based on something that I did during that month or a celebration that was coming up. This year I decided that each theme would start with the same letter as the month. Sometimes I had to stretch it a little bit, especially if I already had something in mind that I wanted to use but it was nice a challenge to get more creative. The January theme came to me quite easily β jigsaws! I kept it in black and white for simplicity, though I made it complicated for myself in other ways.
I was really pleased with the variety of layouts that I came up with. My favourite was the weekly spread with the solid background of patterned jigsaw pieces. For February I chose the theme of fruits, particularly citrus fruits like lemon, lime, grapefruit and orange.
I like the block style of a lot of these, although they took a long time to draw and colour in. I also think the slices for the mood tracker are really cute! The colours on this are some of my favourites, all the different shades of blue and then the black fine line drawings of whale tails, jellyfish, coral, starfish and shells. This one got the thumbs up from my marine biologist sister so what more could I ask for! I think this month was one of my favourites of the year.
The theme was technically abstract but I specifically wanted to do it in the style of Piet Mondrian, an early 20th century Dutch artist. In general, I like my themes to have limited colour schemes and I think the red, blue, yellow and black were really effective. It was also really fun to play with the spacing more on some of the spreads.
Now this. This is potentially one of my favourite things I have ever or will ever create. I first saw this place on a trip with my mum and sisters in and we all loved it.
