Make Art That Sells GTS Submission

This August, I participated once again in the Global Talent Search held by Lilla Rogers Studio. The first round assignment was to design an art for a pair of sneakers, owned by a young woman named Antoinette. Antoinette lives in Brooklyn, rides her bike daily, and loves vintage. The top fifty designs were selected from a pool of 1000 to advance to the second round of the competition. Mine was probably #51!  I enjoyed thinking about Antoinette’s apartment in Brooklyn, and about all those old vintage items which she loves. Congrats to the top 50!

Crustaceans

June is already here! Summer is coming! Though summer in Canada is not very hot, this is my favourite season of the year! 

Last week, I submitted designs of two plates for Home Décor Market for Lilla Rogers Bootcamp. The assignment for May was ‘Marine Mashup’ using crustaceans and some elements of patterns. I made a lobster and a crab using geometric forms – that was really fun! There are a lot of great designs on the class gallery right HERE, which I can look over and over!

Thank you to Kat, who featured me on her wonderful creative blog. You can find her post about her favourite designs right HERE. I love all of these designs too!

June is the last month for our Bootcamp. It is a shame that there is no Summer Bootcamp – I would join it!

Hello!

After much hesitation, I think it is good time to start this blog.  I have couple of introductory words... I changed several occupations in my life trying to figure out what I really want to do, what I am able to do, and what really makes me happy – the conclusion is: I am excited to draw animals, characters, and flowers. I like to draw by hand using traditional media, as well as to use digital media to apply textures and to mix things. 

I love photography too. I think it is magic. I can spend hours taking photographs and editing the images. But this is another story – probably a story for another blog. 

Recently I feel in love with textile design – this is such an inspirational field though sewing is not my strong side. Everything started, of course, with Spoonflower.com. The opportunity to see your design printed on an actual fabric is so fascinating that after the discovery of that website I jumped into my first textile design and participated in the Fabric8 competition held by Spoonflower and Robert Kaufman Fabrics. I borrowed in the library A Field Guide to Fabric Design written by Kimberly Kight and the Fundamentals of Printed Textile Design by Alex Russell (I hope to write some reviews about these books in the future – they are so good!) and built my first repeat pattern ever. After that I leant that Spoonflower.com provides some design tools to build the repeat automatically. A little bit too late, though I enjoyed my process and now I know everything (almost everything!) about half-drop repeat! I made it into the Top 100 and I was very pleased with the result.  I thank you everyone who voted for my design and supported me! So, it was a good push to start this blog finally. Below is a flyer with the Cosmic Voyage design and also some sketches of bunnies which originally I wanted to use for an Easter greeting card.

I hope not to give up, to learn a lot, to submit something cool and creative regularly! I hope to make some friends too! Thanks for reading and come over again!