Comfort Blanket
A commission celebrating gentle, homely love, and, the comfort of your wingman/sibling.
Making Comfort Blanket was a lovely process: to design a print as a birthday gift using only two blocks but showing two very differently coloured cats. I love a challenge, and quickly had my colour palette and composition nailed down. The two cats in this print are siblings, and the blanket is what they sleep on.
The brief
A birthday gift of a multiblock two layer print showing the recipient’s two cats and a favourite blanket of theirs.
This was a wonderful collaboration between myself and my client, as we understood one another and I hit the right image straight away. Once I’d worked out the colours of the two blocks to create both a ginger and white cat and a black cat, I was off, carving away. I sent my client regular progress updates (as I always do for a commission piece) and they were happy all the way through a joyously straightforward commission. The hardest part was having to keep it under wraps until the recipient had been gifted, around two months after the whole process began.
Comfort Blanket began life as a story of love and attachment - and cats, naturally. Two siblings form a feline yin-yang on a favourite blanket, seeking their comfort from the fabric itself, and from one another.
Greeting card featuring my linocut print Comfort Blanket
7”x5” printed in the UK on FSC certified card, supplied plastic free with a brown recycled Kraft envelope
Blank inside for your message