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Framing pretty flower prints

Birth Month Flowers, Flowers, Instagram, Sketchbook

Framing pretty flower prints to bring to the Smedley Artisan Market Sunday! Come see me and bring home some flowers that will last forever! #ijustwanttodrawprettypictures

This strawberry pattern

100daysofpattern2018, Instagram, Patterns, Sketchbook

This strawberry pattern was inspired by a dress that the fabulous @themilitantbaker was wearing in the photo I used as reference to draw her a few weeks...

Trying to make coordinating patterns

100daysofpattern2018, Instagram, Patterns, Sketchbook

I have a lot to learn!

Look y’all! Cicada leggings!

100daysofpattern2018, Insects, Instagram, Patterns, Sketchbook

Added some bees to yesterday’s flowers.

100daysofpattern2018, Insects, Instagram, Patterns, Sketchbook

This was going to be more insects

100daysofpattern2018, Instagram, Patterns, Sketchbook

This was going to be more insects…or rather, a background for some insects. But it turned into this. More insects coming soon, I promise.

In honor of World Book Day, I present a book I made in grad school at SCAD in 1992(ish) with paper I made in 1988 when I was going to school in Cortona, Italy. The block printed patterns are based on Gustav Klimt’s painted...

This one didn’t end up anywhere even close to where it started!

100daysofpattern2018, Instagram, Patterns, Sketchbook

So I thought this would be an easy one.

100daysofpattern2018, Instagram, Patterns, Sketchbook

It was a drawing that I already had… I thought I’d just match up the top and bottom and make it repeat. Simple, right? Nope. Waaaaay more complex than I anticipated. Spent a few hours on it today, and I’ll (try to) finish it tomorrow. You can see where the line is just above the midpoint. Need to blend it better so things don’t all start and stop right there. Stay...