Last February I designed my second pattern, ever, in the Valentine’s Day theme. As I continued throughout the year, designing more patterns, my style evolved and my techniques changed. I wanted to design another pattern, this year, in the same theme, to see how I would approach it differently. Even though last year’s design was created with hand drawn elements – it was painted digitally.
Last year’s pattern:
Learn more about that process here.
This year I painted, in watercolor, several squares in pinks and reds. I thought it would be interesting to arrange them as tiles. The squares would be uneven and irregular because they were hand painted. Then (separately) I painted several hearts and the word love. In Photoshop, I arranged the watercolor squares, and “knocked” the hearts and words out of the squares, and created a repeating pattern.
This year’s Valentine’s Day Pattern:
I got extremely enthusiastic about my design and, even though I haven’t purchased a single Valentine’s Day gift, I ordered a roll of gift wrap from Spoonflower.com. I either have to start shopping for things to wrap, or start crafting. Hmmm, I have some ideas!
January 22, 2016 at 3:13 pm
Sweet and creatively beautiful! xo
January 22, 2016 at 3:18 pm
Thank you 🙂 🙂
January 22, 2016 at 3:23 pm
I love this year’s pattern and it’s so cool that you can see your own creation in a product! 🙂
January 23, 2016 at 11:06 am
Thank you so much Sibella!
January 23, 2016 at 4:53 pm
Most welcome! 😊💕
January 22, 2016 at 4:20 pm
This is so awesome – I’ll have to look into how you do all that – you are a real techno genius artist! 🙂
January 23, 2016 at 11:07 am
Ha ha, thank you! 🙂
January 22, 2016 at 6:23 pm
This is lovely! 🙂
January 23, 2016 at 10:54 am
Thanks Jill 🙂
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