Pattern Party

Trying to force my way back into work mode with some abstract pattern experimentation. I got out my oil pastels yesterday and scribbled away, nothing too detailed or impressive, but enough to photograph and manipulate into usable patterns!

The source photos:

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Available NOW in my Society6 shop!

New on Society 6!

Society6 is very fun for me. I love having an excuse to make patterns, and more than that I love being able to order and wear my own art. When I think about owning a house in the future I imagine it decorated with all sorts of custom pillows and rugs, canvases...

For now I can only afford smaller items, which I buy when there is a free shipping promotion on. I recently bought a beautiful mermaid scale tote bag and it arrived just days before my birthday! I feel extra magical when I lug it around with me, and I bought it in the smallest size available which is actually perfect for carrying everyday junk with me. The last tote bag I bought from Society6 was the largest size, perfect for going to the beach or filling with laundry.

Here are some of my favourite items from my Society6 Shop!

Patterns All Day Every Day

I can't stop making patterns. They are tremendously easy and fun, and I've been having a lot of success with them.

I was thinking about the day Eric and I had hiked in the forest weeks ago, trying to come up with nature inspired patterns, and I remembered the acorns I had brought home with me. I don't have much experience with acorns, because although I was an avid camper all throughout my childhood and collected all different types of pine cones and tree droppings, Thunder Bay does not have oak trees. So whenever I see them, I am just blown away. Eric was throwing them in the air, and I was fighting the urge to collect all of them for some future "craft project" that would have never happened.

So somehow all of that turned into these cute lady acorns in their stylish berets, heavily made up, eyeing one another suspiciously.

I think each face has a lot of character, and my colours are strong. This might be the best pattern I have made!

Art on Society6

I have been meaning to get on Society6 since forever, but it took a recent nudge from Alyssa at Random Acts of Pastel  for me to get around to it. I am SO GLAD I DID. Not because I am making any money at all, because I'm not, but because I can see my art in pillow form. I love throw pillows, LOVE them, and I have been uploading images just to see what they would look in pillow form and dream about them in my future amazing house that I am really far away from owning.

Spoiler, they all look awesome and I want them all.