Agapanthus Adventure

Growing out in the front yard is Agapanthus, or Nile Lily:

I used one as a brush to make textures

the setup

lots of texture experiments!

The instigation for this is my participation in the Textile Design Lab's Summer of Creativity.

Since I'm "working from home" three out of five days a week, I thought I'd take advantage of the Lab, which I've used sporadically over the years. The membership cost is not cheap ($490/year, $49/month-to-month) but a bargain if you compare it to the cost of the Otis Extension course I used to teach ($800/10 weeks).

The Summer of Creativity this year is themed on Self Care. Weekly, we get a creative exercise hosted by Rita Patel (the textures above are the result), then a design brief with inspiration pulled from WGSN.

This week's brief was to design patterns to be used on yoga mats and accessories. 

Tips on how to create mandalas were part of this as well.

My agapanthus Mandala as a placement print

I used one of the textures for the ground

It went over really well in the weekly crit.😄

As a result, the collection has made it onto print on demand products!

Socity6 Yoga Mat (and other things)

Four designs on Spoonflower (can't order until my sample strikeoffs come in)

Agapanthus Mandala Green

Agapanthus Mandala Purple

Agapanthus Purple Toss

Agapanthus Green Toss

Redbubble things (green ground):

link for green ground products

Redbubble things (purple ground):

link for purple ground products

I got a lot of mileage out of this design!

Looking forward to this week's assignment. The theme will be Humor.

Linking up with

Michelle's Creative Compulsions Linky Party
Shelbee's On the Edge of the Week