Wood on Wood

some wood panels I printed: carved wood printed onto wood.

Rotary Phones

The next Spoonflower contest is outdated technology. I decided to do multiple drawings of rotary phones:

Trees

I have spent the last few days doing some bookkeeping…I’ve taken small breaks from the numbers by drawing and coloring these trees:

Cityscape: San Francisco

Just entered another Spoonflower contest. The theme is cityscapes. I grew up in San Francisco and have fond memories a that city so of course I picked it to create a pattern. There is no Golden Gate Bridge or Coit Tower but the overall pattern reminds me of walking in the city with many houses on the hills. I enjoyed adding roof top gardens to some of the houses.
An initial drawing:

The final pattern:

Coordinates

The next contest over at Spoonflower involves making one pattern than 3 others to go with that pattern, also known as coordinates. Awhile ago I made this pattern(below) and called it Night Garden thinking it reminded me of what glowing flowers would look like at night.

Last night I created a few more patterns to work with this one.

The contest rules include making one pattern in dots and one in stripes:


Unfortunately, I got motivated to participate in this contest late in the game so I’m not sure all this actually uploaded correctly onto the Spoonflower website contest page!

Color

I received A Field Guide to Fabric Design by Kimberly Kight of Trueup.net for a Christmas present and have really enjoyed reading it. I just finished the chapter on color and it got me thinking of how I mix color when I’m printing woodblocks. I often mix the color then grab a bit of it onto a putty knife and create a “drawdown” by spreading the ink onto a scrap of paper. It gives me an idea of how the ink will print. I’ve collected a lot of these color samples and love the way they look together:

Tiny Gift Bags

Sitting around one evening watching The Philadelphia Story with my daughter….both of us keeping our hands busy with art projects, I started decorating these small muslin gift bags with some of my hand printed fabrics and embroidery thread.


She was working on an alphabetized catalogue of careers(here’s “A”):

Chicken Cameos

I enjoyed the chicken cameos so much I decided to make a garland using the images from this pattern:

I printed each cameo separately onto fabric and then stitched them together to form a garland:



available in my etsy shop

Bells

…just finished doing this pattern for the new Spoonflower contest this week. I started with some drawings:

and then moved on to photoshop and adding color:

Feathers

I have been collecting feathers for along time…just picking them up whenever I see them. In the back of my mind always thinking I will do something with them, someday. They’ve been sitting in this old cigar box.

When I read that the new contest at Spoonflower was a feathers theme I thought of my collection
I pulled out a few to draw and paint:


After that I scanned those images into photoshop and created this pattern: