Today is National Bamboo Day! If I could live in a bamboo forest I 100% would. There is something so simple and magical about this strong, flexible, whispering grass that induces such a feeling of calm; I just want to be surrounded by it for all my days.
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Monday Mood Board
Monday Mood Board
I’ve been trying to come up with a colorway for my hounds collection that hints towards a pinky pastel sunset. I applied a pink opacity to this photo and also applied an opacity to the photo and placed an opaque pink under it. The original pattern has a lot of green, so I thought IContinue reading “Monday Mood Board”
Monday Mood Board
I’ve been thinking about Halloween since June. I haven’t fully decided on a mood board for October, but I was playing around with these colors. I also revisited some earlier “work” I did almost two years ago. That is how behind I am. Honestly, I don’t know how people work months ahead of schedule. IContinue reading “Monday Mood Board”
Monday Mood Board
Cocktails always provide the best inspiration. Have a great week!
Monday Mood Board
I’m getting there. To get the gradient for this moth I used the blend tool in Adobe Illustrator. With it set to smooth color I was given this beautiful gradient. It’s perfect, however, not easy to work with as there are probably more than 50 colors here. So, I narrowed it down to only seven.Continue reading “Monday Mood Board”
Monday Mood Board
LUNA MOTH Photo from Unsplash Photographer Anne Nagård Polarmermaid
Monday Mood Board
For many months I have had some ideas about how to use these shapes in a pattern, maybe a whole collection. I’m still kicking the idea around. Looking for inspiration everywhere these days. But can you look for inspiration or does inspiration find you?
Monday Mood Board
This week I wanted to get back to this design I started a few months ago. How to capture the foliage, show variety and all the different shades of green is turning out to be a challenge. I originally did a few hand drawn doodles for the variation in leaf patterns, but I don’t thinkContinue reading “Monday Mood Board”
Monday Mood Board
A refreshing cocktail (or is it a mocktail?) to help you beat the heat. Hope you are keeping cool out there!
Marie Friddle 