I am deep in the house selling, buying and moving process at the moment which as anyone knows, is one of the big life stresses, but to pick up my i pencil and indulge in a little creative work is a great form of stress relief.
My monkeys are taking the stage again this week with a Jungle Tea Party! Look closely and there is tea and cake in there!
Who doesn’t love the ocean, fresh salty breezes, the cry of seagulls and pretty fishing villages.
All those images and sensations were on my mind as I created my design for this week’s Spoonflower challenge, Modern Nautical.
As usual I’m working on a collection, it is far from finished but this is what I have so far.
This was such a fun challenge to design for and I couldn’t get my idea out of my head fast enough. So much so, I created almost all this design while whizzing around the UK by train a few weeks back. The bumpiness of the ride made it quite difficult
It seems Spoonflower wants some more floral designs so this week is yet another floral based challenge ” Wild Flower Collage” Be prepared for 20+ pages of designs to wade through.
My design was inspired by papercut flowers and I went for a simple ( but firm favorite) palette of blue and white.
I also created a little collection, Prairie Blue to coordinate with my design
I absolutely adore designing just using blue and white, so a delft tile challenge was right up my street.
It seems that the prompts for the spoonflower challenges are being written by AI, the images that accompany the prompts are certainly AI and they have been called on that. This is the challenge description
Retro Nouveau
“This mashup mixes the organic motifs and ornate shapes of Art Deco with the bold colors and geometric patterns of a retro vibe.”
Art deco and Art Nouveau are not even that same styles, so the whole thing is very confusing.
Even more confusing is what to design.
I ended up going with a stain glass art nouveau peacock and I actually had a lot of fun with circles in this design, can you see them?
This was an interesting challenge to design for. I imagined myself lying in a garden meadow looking up to the stars! With all the light pollution we have in the Chicago area it never really gets very dark!
If 70′ decor is making a come back then I cringe, but it is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge.
I fiddled about with loud geometric shapes but nothing really spoke to me so I went in a completely different direction and ended up channeling platform boots … as you do! It would make a really interesting wallpaper for a vintage clothing store.
70s Platform Shoes And Paisley
I also updated a old design I had done for a previous 70’s challenge to reflect the colorways of my new design
Cottagecore is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge and it was a fun one to design for. I went for a soft color palette and transported myself to a floral meadow with free range ducks.
I absolutely adore the block print look and love designing in this style. But it is another floral challenge… and the challenge will be swamped like the last one.
As usual I did a number of colorways.
