This collection came about as the result of an experiment. I was exploring the idea of using a single shape to create collections by playing with layout and creating composite shapes. Some of the composites seemed a little occultish to me and thus "Arcane Gothic" was born. It is a limited-palette set of patterns with hints of the occult and Gothic-esque symbols and motifs. It could be a great alternative for Halloween - but would work well all year round! Think Whimsigoth aesthetic and Goth wedding invitations and décor. Funnily enough the "sister" collection that sparked this one is its diametrical opposite! It's called "A Groovy Kind of Pink". (I think that the name says it all!) I will introduce it in a separate blog post. In the meantime they are both available to download in my Creative Fabrica Shop.
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I spoke in a previous blog post about recolouring designs and the way it can be completely transformative. Well that's what happened with the Autumn Splendour collection. I had some patterns left over from my Pink and Black Boho set. I added an HSL adjustment layer in Affinity Designer and tuned the colours to get these incredible Autumn hues. I wasn't sure if the patterns worked as a set at first, but the more I looked at it the more it grew on me. Now I absolutely love it! So much so that I was inspired to create a brand new digital paper set based on the same colour palette. Which resulted in "Fall Into Autumn". The "Fall into Autumn" collection is an eclectic mix of patterns, textures and backgrounds featuring plaids, stipes, geometrics, paint effects and illustration. I was thinking about making mini albums when I put this collection together and how the different designs would mix and match in a project like that. The two collections are quite different, but because the colour palette is the same in both they could be used in conjunction with one another for even greater versatility. "Autumn Splendour" and "Fall into Autumn" are both available for download in my Creative Fabrica Shop. One of the reasons that I got into surface pattern design at all was because I wanted to create beautiful patterned papers to use for cardmaking, scrapbooking and paper crafting. Up until now I haven't made any of my designs available on paper, but I recently opened a new store on Creative Fabrica. Creative Fabrica is a graphics resource website where you can download all manner of graphics and fonts - from clip art to cut files, Photoshop brushes to patterns and everything in between! While not directly on paper, my design collections will be available to download and use in your own creative projects - whether that is printing them out to use in scrapbooks or on cards, or using them to create product packaging or posters. Check the Creative Fabrica website for the EULA (end user licence agreement) and terms of use. Way back in 2019 I created a design for the Spoonflower Design Challenge - Halloween Embroidery. I've been thinking about turning it into a complete collection (as I only had 2 Halloween designs) for a while and finally got around to finishing it off a couple of weeks ago 🙌. So without further ado, I present Halloween Hysteria - a spooky, fun and vibrant collection featuring licensed artwork by DigitalArtsi.
Watch a short video showreel on YouTube here. We're a month into Spring. How is it the end of April already?!! Anyway I've just released a new pattern in my Spoonflower shop - "Spring Woodland Wildlife". It's a fun pattern featuring blossoming trees and woodland wildlife in a fresh, soft colour palette - perfect for kid's clothes, soft furnishings and bags.
As I mentioned in an earlier post I opened a shop with Woven Monkey and so I am slowly uploading my existing designs to the platform. It's an interesting process because it has made me revisit some designs that I'd sort of forgotten about. Geo Wheels is one of the first surface pattern designs that I created, originally with white, aqua/mint and red backgrounds. I couldn't resist playing around with more colours and loved the results with lilac, mustard and teal backgrounds so these are now available at Woven Monkey and also in my Redbubble shop.
Face masks are now live on Redbubble. There are three size options: kids, small and standard. Here are just a few of the available designs. Head over to my store and take a look at all the options. I had an idea for a Skillshare class about creating a "recipe" for mixed media art that would enable beginners to get great results more easily. I decided to try out my recipe digitally and it was while I was doing that, that I came up with my new art peice "Golden Raindancer". I knew that I wanted to depict a dancer and maybe some sort of rain. The original work was far too busy and I didn't like where it was heading so I decided to take the dancer and place it on a much simpler background. I love the combination of red and black and gold. "Golden Raindancer" is now available in my Society6 and Redbubble shops. |
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