Hand Painted Fabric Flip Through

As part of the #28 Patterns I made in February, I painted a bunch of fabric.

Here's a quick 15 second flip-through:

And some stills:

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Podtastic! and Patterns

I'm taking an awesome class by Jodi Ohl called Pod-tastic!

Because doodling is WAY outside my comfort zone I'm being extremely diligent about doing each practice exercise to the best of my abilities (and as often as needed) until I'm comfortable. That way when I move on I can do it confidently.

It's kind of fun being a total noob in an art class :)

1st try:

2nd try:

I think I'm ready to move on to doing these over painted backgrounds. I think I managed to get a flat blob shape to look sort of 3D-ish. What do you think?

As for patterns... I think I've done more than 28 already. Patterns are apparently super-addictive. 

Here's a few of my latest ones:

Framed Mixed-Media Heart Wall Decor

I'm having a great time with these patterns. 

Sometimes I've been doing them in my art journal, sometimes on loose paper - my son has been doodling them on his arms. LOL.

This one leapt off the page and into a salvaged garage sale frame. I now have a really cute little accent for my bathroom. 

For a focal point I added a recycled playing card. You can view my tutorial for them HERE.

All this color and texture makes me happy :)

I had a little strip left so instead of replicating it in my journal, I cut a piece out and glued it in. Having a pattern index is SO awesome. It's totally worth the additional effort. You can see it all finished in the top pic.

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Pattern Making

You'll have to excuse the lighting. Sunshine is pretty scarce in the Pacific Northwest this time of year.

We've been driving with our headlights on at noon lately.

Thankfully I enjoy the gloomy dampness immensely. This is home :)

Here are some of the patterns I've been working on for #28Patterns.

80's Leaf: Inspired by the work of Sarah Bagshaw

This one is based on an Ikea fabric print:

This one is inspired by Mysterious Tropical Garden by SmallDrawing

Here it is just painted with Inktense blocks and a water brush.

Then I caved and added an outline to everything. I like the flowers MUCH better but the pomegranates less... what do you think? Do you prefer the details or the softer look and feel of the top picture?

And here's the index page in my bullet journal. I love how it's taking shape.

#28Patterns

Julie's done it again. She has a terrific way of motivating people to make lots of art; first with her #CarveDecember and now with #28Patterns.

I started this one by carving a lemon stamp and fill stamp.

Then I stamped in Staz-On for the edge and Ranger Squeezed Lemonade Distress ink for the fill. Then I went over the whole thing, adding some green shadow and bright yellow highlights with neocolors.

And lastly I added the stamp to my bullet journal where I'm indexing my patterns. I've left my options open so that I can either just do a pattern in the journal or make something more elaborate and record it here.