As I was working on pomegranates two days ago, I also got started on this pattern, which happened more by accident. I’m really happy with it!

Wanted to do a pattern featuring little houses. I love my Paris Row Homes pattern, but I wanted something a little more free flowing this time!

A nice, fresh floral for Mother’s Day!

Okay, obviously I need to get back into the habit of posting these every day. Here’s a massive, month-long catch-up!

SPAGHETTI NIGHT:

DOT HORSES

CHAOS

ORGANIZATION IN CHAOS

CROCODILE EYES

LITTLE BIRDS

DONUTS

BUTTERFLIES

WEDDING PRESENTS

ICAT

HOCKEY NIGHT

AQUARIUM

GEOMETRIC CATS

FLORAL BOUQUET

BOUQUET, COMPLEMENT

LIGHT GRAY BOUQUET

GOLD FOIL

FEATHERS

PENCILS

SCHOOL BUS

APPLES

PARTY TRIANGLES

LADY BUGS

MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!

SEAGULL SCALLOP

SEAGULL CLOUDS

WORLD MAP

STRAWBERRIES

STEWARDSHIPS

MUSHROOMS

GNOMES

It’s time for me to catch up a little! I’ve been posting patterns to Instagram, but haven’t been good about updating the blog. Here we go!

Let’s start with my favorite of these catch-up patterns. I have called this Fauna & Flora. I’ve mentioned that I’m drawn to folk art lately. In this pattern, I challenged myself to create a pattern with a modern-folk-art feel by not referencing any photos in creating these animals. So these are all just drawn straight in Illustrator (with the pen tool) with no photo reference. What I learned is, I can’t draw a raccoon from memory (which is interesting considering I JUST DID a raccoon pattern, seen below). My raccoon attempts turned into the marmots (?) and the … other mystery animal in beige. What do you suppose that is? A skunk? I had so much fun making this pattern and am now thinking about what I might turn it into!

Here are some raccoons! Yay! For these, I mainly wanted to play with color (and you can see that the color experimentation carried over to the pattern above). I would love to have these guys on a shirt.

Here’s a pattern that is unexpected, even to me! I often scroll through Pinterest to find ideas for patterns. I came across a pin for DIY stick horses, and thought that stick horses as a pattern would be a novel concept. I added children’s cowboy boots in the spaces.

I would love to have this pattern as wallpaper. Happy little guys! I occasionally see woodpeckers out my office window while I’m working.

Finally here are some parade elephants. For this, I reused some old elephant artwork I created for a shower invitation for Shutterfly a couple years ago.

It is Joan’s 2nd birthday tomorrow, and I am making just a few things to make it cat-tastic.

This pattern was a little bit of a cheat since technically I made the pattern sometime last year, but I’m justifying it for a few reasons:

It’s one of my favorites, ever. I would like this in wallpaper in my office.

The peacock is so complex that it made my old computer crash. Again and again. I had to abandon it because it wasn’t accepted for the project I was working on at the time, and because I couldn’t even work in the file without any minor changes being a 45-minute commitment. I was never able to make the proper repeating tile at the time.

Yesterday I was in the office for 15 hours. It was time to go home and I just needed a sort of free pass.

I think I’m taking a little creative license here, because I’m not sure that such multi-color homes exist in Paris, but the non-colorful version of this was just way too boring!

On the weekends I have a little more time for patterns. On this pattern, I enjoyed developing each car and of course the double decker buses!