Early this past summer, we went on a multi-family camping trip to Refugio State Beach up the California coast. We enjoyed sunny days, dense rolling walls of afternoon fog, and thick tangles of tourmaline colored seaweed laying in sandy clumps as though it had fallen off a mermaid’s hairbrush.
Personal project: Thank you card
Here are some in-process photos of a card I recently created for a friend.
Gems fabric in the dining room
Recently, I received an email asking about Haiku in a Prism, one of the Gems pattern colorways I offer on Spoonflower (a digital fabric printing website).
New Pattern: Baby Tears
I’m pretty happy with the final results of this pattern study. As simple as it appears, it seems to have endless color possibilities, and better: it has one or two satisfying quirks that elevate it beyond mere “floral”.
Another concept for punched and perforated steel.
Terri Herbert spent years as a marine biologist with a deep connection to dolphins before a recent career change to Feldenkrais® practitioner.
New pattern: Ogee Garden
Returning to this awkwardly-named, but endlessly-intriguing motif, I filled a few more pages in a sketchbook and decided to pursue a loosely drawn “garden”.
Though I can’t divulge details, I’m permitted to share a couple of screenshots and wireframes from this new project.
When all you’ve got is paint
We live across the street from an elementary school in a struggling district. Awhile ago, I wrote about the collaborative mural project I designed and directed for them, but I realized only recently that I’d left out an important first step.
As part of the new business launch we created with decluttering and design startup, Space to Love, we delivered a simple (but beautiful) website.
Our development clients based in Northwest Arkansas needed to update their old website to reflect evolving plans.
Pattern archetypes: an elegant onion
I find it half fascinating, half maddening. It can be bulbous and comical or elegant and mysteriously harmonious. Its leaf-like form and the fascinating ways it can tightly repeat make it seem archetypal. One site’s onion is another site’s paisley, ogee or persian pickle, and the meanings of all those terms overlap and blur.
Paisley or Nearly
This ink and watercolor drawing is part of a paisley study series I did awhile ago, and is still the most popular.
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