Design Spotlight: Rachel McNaughton

Today’s Design Spotlight shines on Rachel McNaughton, an artist offering beautiful watercolor designs!

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Flowers are my favorite subject to paint which is probably fairly obvious to anyone who visits my store.

All the cards are from my own watercolor paintings with a few ( mostly the wedding ones) painted specially for GCU. The bridesmaid and flower girl cards do well.

I live in the UK and have never seen cards such as invitations “to be” or “thank you” to bridesmaids in the shops over here. I think they are a lovely idea and will be a souvenir for years to come.

I have been painting in watercolor for over 25 years and now sell my work at exhibitions and for greetings cards worldwide. My website  now has a gallery of prints and originals for sale online.  I also have a range of prints and table mats printed from my art.

I recently joined an artists’ agency in the UK and this has meant wider uptake of designs for cards. I also teach painting to adults, hiring village halls to do so, and run workshops for local art clubs so that keeps me pretty busy!

I have 2 DVDs on watercolor painting ( “From Flower to Watercolour” & “Putting Colour into Watercolour”) which are sold by the Soc for All Artists and have written a book on flower painting which has 7 step by step flower painting projects to follow  . These are projects which have been tried and tested in the classes I run and are carefully explained so you can’t go wrong!

I feel very privileged to be able to do something that I enjoy so much and people pay me for! How lucky is that?!

I have enjoyed being on GCU and it is always exciting to get the e mail telling me I have made a sale. The Thanksgiving cards went particularly well this year and I had 2 or 3 large orders for them. I have just started on some more Christmas designs, but although they are uploaded, they are waiting for the finishing touches and then will be submitted.