[Cont'd from here] How did I wind up here, drawing "paper dolls" to add my fabric designs to? Maybe in old age I'm simply circling back to one of my first loves -- 1950s paper dolls. Rita Hayworth. The Maguire Sisters. I could lose myself for hours dressing them and having them act out their… Continue reading “Gotta Go,” cont’d.
I've been laboring away in a course called "The Sellable Sketch." I reached the point where I picked out (1) a style I aspired to ("flowing"), (2) a current trend in fashion ("natural textures"), and (3) an end-user (long-story-short "cosmopolitan"). The challenge now: design a fabric collection -- three or more designs that "go together."… Continue reading “Gotta Go” fabric design
Assignment: to design a border in Photoshop (i.e., a horizontally repeated pattern printed along the selvage edge of a bolt of fabric) Result: It should have been easy, but nothing worked till I resurrected a 2007 doodle -- five off-balance little pencil figures. I put them on a colorful striped design, but continued to torture… Continue reading Be the wind
I'm focusing on fabric design this winter as a practice. Like some people play games or do sports, I design because it's fun and has beneficial social and psychological side effects. I'm in it for the process, not the product. But, as always, I take myself seriously. Stretching does not mean scrambling to the top of… Continue reading Designing for energy
My design classes and challenges are very immersive. I'm not too swift coming up with new ideas, so I continue to dig into my old image files. This week took me back elements I made for a 1-minute animation back in 2008: "Be the Change." I had to go look at it again on YouTube.… Continue reading “Be the Change”
My 13th Spoonflower Challenge entry is on the theme of Desert Modernism. The challenge is being held in conjunction with the Modern Phoenix organization. Personally, I was over mid-century modern by 1967, but undoubtedly desert modernism represents a classic era in Arizona architecture and interior design. I thought my best route to success here was… Continue reading “Desert Wanderer”
You hear about artists and entertainers "bursting upon the scene" as if they just picked up a brush or a guitar and their genius gushed out. You want to be that person. You walk on stage unrehearsed because you're confident the magic will happen. Haha. I started doing Spoonflower challenges because, if I want to… Continue reading Reckoning: a humble start
I'm enjoying going through my old drawings and books for design motifs. Coming soon is a Spoonflower challenge on the theme of pysanky, the Ukranian art of egg dyeing. To produce a pysanka, the design is drawn in wax before the egg is painted or dyed, so that the fine lines in the final product… Continue reading Work in progress: motif design
Spoonflower challenge: a design limited to four specific colors -- Goldenrod (#E0B138), Midnight Blue (#002E54), Coral (#FA7268 - ASE Color of the Year hex code), Gray (#D9D9D6). My reaction: ew. Oh well. I pulled a motif from my library and gave her a mysterious friend: opposite but the same. A bird looks on. Others designers… Continue reading Garden party at sunset
When I fell in love with making videos (circa 2003), I was a one-woman production studio -- writer, actor, sound engineer, animator. I committed to telling some stories from a youthful point of view, so I learned how to modify my voice recording to make it sound like I was 12. Lucy was born. She… Continue reading Good old Lucy
