Showing posts with label pattern design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pattern design. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
More Designs
Continuing to have fun! These designs were done using Photoshop and Illustrator. Not sure which is my favorite - but I'm loving the black!
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Day 7 & Lessons Learned
Day 7 of the painting challenge produced a flop, a painting and taught me a lesson!
I started my day off early in the studio. Grabbed an 8 x 10 wood panel, turned the music on, sipped my tea and got right to work. I bought myself some flowers yesterday for my desk and I thought hmmm I think I'll paint a vase of flowers today, I was feeling inspired. I sketched it all out and thought about it for a bit and then got down to work by first laying down my background color. I was happy with the colors I was working with and happy with the arrangement of flowers in the vase - liked how the vase turned out, I was excited - so I started painting the flowers, and painting the flowers, and painting the flowers. I over painted the flowers - then I hated the background! I kid you not, I repainted the background 6 times. With each color change I got crankier and crankier - I stepped back from it, had some lunch, then painted some more. I ended up with my background being the very same color that I had started with. ------grrrrrrrrrr------ This painting and I were NOT getting along - I had over worked this painting so much that it didn't even look like my work - it was feeling so forced and I was beating up on myself for creating a disaster - so I stopped, tucked the painting out of sight and grabbed another wood panel. I took a deep breath, loosened up on my paintbrush and myself and ahhhhhhhhh.... I created a little gem I was very happy with. The exciting part is that I see ways to expand on this painting - elements within it will make great patterns. I felt my voice in this painting - I stayed true to myself and let go of what was not me.
I started my day off early in the studio. Grabbed an 8 x 10 wood panel, turned the music on, sipped my tea and got right to work. I bought myself some flowers yesterday for my desk and I thought hmmm I think I'll paint a vase of flowers today, I was feeling inspired. I sketched it all out and thought about it for a bit and then got down to work by first laying down my background color. I was happy with the colors I was working with and happy with the arrangement of flowers in the vase - liked how the vase turned out, I was excited - so I started painting the flowers, and painting the flowers, and painting the flowers. I over painted the flowers - then I hated the background! I kid you not, I repainted the background 6 times. With each color change I got crankier and crankier - I stepped back from it, had some lunch, then painted some more. I ended up with my background being the very same color that I had started with. ------grrrrrrrrrr------ This painting and I were NOT getting along - I had over worked this painting so much that it didn't even look like my work - it was feeling so forced and I was beating up on myself for creating a disaster - so I stopped, tucked the painting out of sight and grabbed another wood panel. I took a deep breath, loosened up on my paintbrush and myself and ahhhhhhhhh.... I created a little gem I was very happy with. The exciting part is that I see ways to expand on this painting - elements within it will make great patterns. I felt my voice in this painting - I stayed true to myself and let go of what was not me.
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