Hopscotch Fun

I'm on week 4 of the Summer of Creativity course and this week's theme was Humor.

That's a puzzle in the lower left. Yes! Redbubble offers puzzles now!

Get the 1000 piece version and drive yourself crazy!

[puzzle link]

You may need this laughing exercise while working on that:

Spoonflower is doing a "Sports" design challenge and I'm adding the Hopscotch placement design into the contest. I think it might be a good design for bedding, which Spoonflower offers.

The scale is too small, I had to reduce it for the contest and will make it bigger after it's over.

Wait. 

Is hopscotch a sport or a game? 

Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.

I'll update with a link when voting starts 7/30.
Voting is open until 8/4 There are 486 entries in this contest. (Yikes)
Not a winner. Boo.

Linking up with

Michelle's Creative Compulsions

Shelbee's Spread the Kindness

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

Spoonflower Mosaic Challenge

See it on Spoonflower

It's time for another Spoonflower Challenge entry, the theme this week is MOSAICS.

I've been meaning to get this art into repeat for a while. It's the same colors as my Web Color Chart

See it on Spoonflower
See it on Society6
See it on Redbubble

but more usable for printing on leggings (or whatever).

Soon I'll have some! (Maybe I'll try Redbubble this time, to compare with the Society6 ones)

Anyway,

the Challenge includes voting. If you feel like helping me win the popularity contest, 

CLICK HERE TO VOTE!!!!

There are 287 entries to wade through (and don't try to do it on your phone -- really difficult!!!!) and they're displayed at random, so no telling when my Mosaic of web colors will appear.

Voting closes 2/28, so get on over there as soon as you can!

Mwah!

Throw In the (Beach) Towel

New thing available at Society6 -- towels!

In addition, they're offering free shipping through midnight, May 8.
Use this extra special link.

**I will get 10% commission on every towel sold.
Thanks!

Flashback 5/75 Redux

I'm doing one of those "Post 5 Artworks..." challenges on Facebook [find mine here], and I thought I'd make it more complicated for myself by making blog posts with the art. Each day a different blog. [Yes, I have 5+ blogs. Ack!]
Pattern Recognition is the third blog that I created, in May 2009. It came about to support an exhibition with the same title at TAG Gallery held June-July 2009. As I say in the sidebar, I was big on patterns in the 70s, and now I make them at the day job. And teach them every Spring semester at Otis. [8/2019 correction. Someone hijacked my class and I was "fired" by departmental ghosting. Not happy about this].
Anyway.

From time to time, I'll design repeats for myself. They show up here.

Here is a new pattern:

©2016 Anne M Bray
Yardage available on Spoonflower soon.
Printed on various items by Society6 here.

I'm going to get leggings printed up, waiting for a sale!

In 2011, I had made a white ground colorway, which I rediscovered while looking for something else:

@2011 Anne M Bray
Yardage available on Spoonflower eventually.
Printed on various items by Society6 here.

In 1975, I created the original silkscreen print:

Anne M Bray, 1st Series, #7, Silkscreen monoprint, ©1975 

Read an older post from 2011 about this work.

Leggings on Society6

Every time Society6 adds another new substrate, I get a little nudge to work up some products.
(Though I didn't get very far with the "Chicken Marsala", did I? Pantone's Marsala wins the prize of "most uninspiring color of the year")
Anyway, now there are leggings. If you read my SpyGirl fashion blog, you know that I'm very fond of the patterned leg. I have resurrected the "Crazy Legs", hoping that the colors will be richer than they were on the tights:

Gibberish on a black ground:

And, as a wild card, Sound:

I have ordered the first two prints, to test the quality. I'll report back after I wear them.

There's a $5 discount with free shipping offer today on Society6 until midnight if you click on the following special link: http://society6.com/patternrecognitionbyannembray?promo=CJ6BB434YGJ2

FULL DISCLOSURE: I get paid about $5 per pair of tights sold. Thanks for your support!

Chicken Marsala Collection and Marsala Link-up Party.

Hello my pattern friends.
I've been working on a collection "inspired" by the Pantone color of the year: Marsala.

It all coalesced last week driving home from work.
"Chicken Marsala": antique chicken graphics combined with old fashioned plaids, stripes, and ditsies.

I've uploaded a bunch of graphics to my Society6 Pattern account. Still working on the repeats for Spoonflower.
(I really don't want to sit here and vectorize ditsies at home when I do it all day at work).

Here are some screen grabs from Society6:

a chicken marsala tee for that man in your life

Did I mention my Marsala link-up party?

[source: Pantone] 

Patterned Clocks on Society6

Society6 keeps adding more items that they print upon and the latest are clocks.
I think this black ground design came out nicely:

black gibberish available here

Here's my full selection so far. Hoping to get more designs uploaded soon.

see my clock collection here

60s Paisley Patterns

Society6 has added mugs to their roster of custom printed items.
What a perfect substrate for patterns!

my 60s mug

I originally created this print for an art show in July.

also available as an art print

I then had it printed on tights (blogged here).

I created it by digitally compositing three 60s prints, one of which you see in the shirt above.

Maybe I should add the three prints separately so one could get a set of four mugs?