My design featuring Chocolate Therapy ice cream is one of 20 finalists in the Ben & Jerry’s “Shirt Happens” design contest. I designed a Rorschach ink blot that looks like a Holstein cow made from melted chocolate ice cream — now that’s my kind of therapy.
If you’re on Facebook, click on over and vote on the finalists. As usual, I’d be a terrible judge — I think they’re all pretty cool.
As an English major and big Jane Austen fan, I’m pleased that my “Pemberley Print” fabric design placed 6th in this week’s Jane Austen-themed Spoonflower contest. The theme was “Living in a Jane Austen Novel,” so I drew sketches of Regency-style furniture and upholstered them with exaggerated floral prints in period colors like pea green, primrose yellow, puce and cerulean blue. I love drawing furniture, and Regency pieces have such ornate lines and details that make them extra fun to draw.
Just add Mr. Darcy and you’re set!
In honor of this week’s Illustration Friday theme, “Book,” here’s an illustration I did of books fluttering in a sky full of fluffy white clouds. The books are actually scraps of manila folder that my kids cut up while making some other project. As I swept them up off the table, it struck me that they looked like funky little books. Happy accidents! It’s a seamless pattern, which means it’s also available as a fabric at Spoonflower.
The Illustration Friday theme this week is “Swamp” – which is perfect, since not only am I swamped(!) at the moment, but I’ve been wanting to draw a cute alligator (or crocodile? I confess I can’t tell them apart) for a while now. He’s sitting on top of a page from “Contributions to the natural history of the alligator” by Bennet Dowler, a great old 1846 book digitized by Google, which I distressed and doodled on.
I’ve been following Illustration Friday for a while, but this is the first time I’ve had time to submit anything. Here’s my take on the theme “Burning.”
Special kudos to chain’s free Monoprint Texture Brushes which are super fun to play with!
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