I'm settling happily into Jacksonville, Florida. I'm near my family AND I'm near the beach! I still miss my everyday adventures of living in Hong Kong, but I can create adventures anywhere.
I've only been here three weeks, but I'm already breaking out the art supplies. I've been creating jewelry and creating designs. Today's post is a peek at just one of the upcoming designs.
I've been ruminating on my
design aesthetic. One of the stops to my core design style is the country style. I have to admit: I'm a sucker for plaids and gingham. I find a warm, homey appeal in that design. I'm really pleased with the plaids in this collection. I've been challenging myself and trying to incorporate aspects of the southwestern design that I find appealing such as texture and organic lines.
Below is a single print from the collection: Orange.
The collection is targeted for release August 1! I will have the fabrics in my
Spoonflower shop, these prints will be available in different sizes in my
Artfire shop. I'm working on some other products to accompany this particular collection. I'll be sharing bits and pieces of the upcoming collection over the next few weeks. :-)
I did a bunch of what I would call "ugly sketching"... just doodling on the color palettes I picked out. I pulled out previous work I had done that never made it into an official collection and picked out components I liked. I used sketches that surprised me... half-finished pieces that I liked better than the finished work. Below are the final drawings that made up the above collection. Yes, it's that "simple." It took a few hours to create these drawings. The heavy lifting of the work was done in Adobe Illustrator - coloring, manipulating, placing, sizing. Illustrator has recently gone through a major upgrade and I'm having to relearn the tool. I'm struggling a bit and it's taken me longer to finish work than I would have liked. 
