Spoonflower x East Fork Challenge

Time for another Spoonflower popularity contest.

For this challenge, we were told to be inspired by the glaze colors of these dishes from East Fork:

I took the actual pottery (and other East Fork items) as my inspiration!

Traced them in Procreate...

Worked some Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop magic, and, voila!

I call it "The Dish Ran Away With the Spoon"

There are 2158 entries in this contest (yikes... it gets worse every time)

• 03/28/2023: Submissions close at 3pm EDT
• 03/30/2023: Public voting opens
• 04/04/2023: Public voting ends at 3pm EDT
• 04/06/2023: Spoonflower will announce the winner

I wasn't even close. I gave up looking to see how many votes I got. WAY too many entries.

The rules: Artists must use both East Fork glaze colors, Butter (#F4EDBA) and Piglet (#F2DDDD) as the main colors. Additional colors can be incorporated, but we recommend only adding neutrals and keeping it simple with no more than 4 colors total (not including black and white) to ensure your design coordinates well with East Fork products. Honoring the glaze colors is key!

Wacky Print from a Year Ago

I was looking through personal files that I have stashed on my work computer (as one does) and I found this:

I have a remote memory of WHY I did this -- isn't it STRANGE?

Party Leopard, Dialed Down

Remember "Party Leopard" from last year (almost exactly)?

I created it during a class demo during my Digital Design for Textiles class at Otis.

I then took the file to work, reduced the colors, toned it WAY down, added texture with a Photoshop filter, 

and put it in some potential panty combos.

Today, I finalized the art for production. The panty six-pack will be available at Costco Japan around August/September!

Party Leopard

Meet "Party Leopard" my newest print-from-a-class-demo artwork:

I didn't think I'd come up with anything exotic this week, I surprised myself!

At the end of class, I took a photo of the classroom's Cintiq monitor and posted it to Instagram, as a joke.
Lo and behold, a Facebook Friend loved it and wanted yardage!
I then had the task of putting it into repeat, because it was an unplanned combination of 3 different repeats.

Here are the elements:
Leopard forms the topmost layer of lavender ground and transparent leopard motifs.
It came from this demo file:

Next are the purple dots, from this file (in class, we all created a dot 1/2 drop from scratch):

And, at the bottom layer, is a lovely print that I've been using to demo Photoshop's Offset Filter.
I call it The Tie Dye Eggs:

I found this dumpster diving at the Otis Fashion Campus in the early 00s,
when they were situated at the Cal Mart in downtown LA.

IT EVEN HAS COLORWAYS!!!!

Recently, while doing a Google Image "tie dye" search, I discovered it online!
Had to "Pin" it! [Alas, the Pin link is not good. Boohoo]

So yes, the Party Leopard can [soon] be found on Spoonflower* if you want yardage.

And Redbubble* for most of the Redbubble things:

* I get a small commission from Spoonflower and Redbubble on purchased items.

Party on, Leopard People!

Did someone say Conga Line? Taking this party to Shelbee's #SpreadTheKindness and Catherine's #SaturdayShare
Catherine introduced me to Redbubble, and I'm forever grateful!

Textile Design Lab's Summer of Creativity: Editing a Texture

Look!
This:

Came from this:

Lesson Two was a quickie editing technique for textures that ended up working out well on my 2nd try.

1) Added "Content Aware" fills by making a selection, Select > Inverse, hit Delete (choosing Content Aware)
1A) a misfire -- cropping area has too much white edge

[from here on, a reenactment] 

1B, Red shows a tighter selection, better all-over fill 

2) Cropped to an area that I liked (this art not in repeat)

Next, I'll show crops of the transformations without the step-by-step directions.
Maintaining a bit of mystery, since it's not a free course.

 Oops, reenactment doesn't match. Oh well -- glad that I saved the original!

The Textile Design Lab is a monthly membership fee-based site. Well worth it, so far!

Linking up with Shelbee's On the Edge of the Week