Designer and illustrator, Laura Blythman, admits she was always driven by a passion for crafting and illustrating. “When I was young I always loved to cut, paste and layer paper and as a teen I would spend days drawing detailed illustrations of my teen idols,” she shared with Kids Gifts and Toys. “So I guess in some form or another I’ve always been doing exactly what I still do now,” she reflected.
Indeed, judging by her playful portfolio there seems to be a lot of drawing, cutting, and pasting going around. There’s also a lot of color (mainly pink). According to Blythman, her process includes covering big sheets of watercolor paper in a variety of colors, with the added copper or gold leaf. Blythman then cuts the sheets up and rearranges them, employing paper collage techniques.
“I’m drawn to color because it just makes me so happy, it never fails to lift my mood,” she says. So much so, in fact, that her choice of color dictates her art piece rather than the other way around. “When I’m creating new work I decide on a color palette first,” she stressed. “Always. At present, I can’t get away from neon pink and peach.”
With almost 70k fans on Instagram and clients that include anything from start-up businesses to high profile international brands, her creative recipe seems to have worked. You’d want to follow her ins and outs.
