Week 12: It's a Wrap

It's the end of week 12.  Three whole months of blogging (minus a couple of weeks in the middle). With the changes in format, I have found the joy in my creativity without the stress of feeling like I bit off more than I could chew. In addition to getting through the week, I added 3 cards to the collection.  Are you inspired too?

Inspiration Photo

Random Thoughts and Ideations

Color Palette

Color Palette

Patterns - Circular

Circle Patterns

Patterns - Geometric

Geometric Patterns

Freebie Cards

Freebie Cards

Next week: Sketches, Doodles & Art

Week 12, Day 3 Circle Patterns

Using my color palette, I created some circle patterns in Illustrator today.

The first pattern I created was using a halftone screen effect .  I started with a simple gradient.  Then I rasterized the image, and through the effects, I created pixels.  I had to try several times to get the right size for what I wanted.  Then I copied the layers in different color, flipping some of the layers 180°.

The second pattern utilized my color palette and then I created this circle pattern, intersected the circles and filled them accordingly.  As I am describing these, I am realizing that showing you the steps would probably make more sense, so tomorrow, I will try to do that!

This pattern is also overlapping circles when I then intersected so I could have each piece separate.  Originally I wanted to use all the color but as I started filling in the shapes with color this one just worked, so I stopped.

Week 4, Day 3: Creative Tuesday - Not Building a Model, Part 3

Today I had my coffee shop Bible Study and Jess showed me more photos of her trips to Haiti. She has been going for about 5 years, but the team has been going for about 10 years.  If you want to see before and after photos of some of the surgery patients, go to www.haitimedicalmission.org.

Jess in Haiti

Surgery

Jess checking a patient after surgery

So I continued through the day to snatch a few moments here and there to work on my tap tap.  I'm not the most patient person, and I wanted to just get it done so I can get caught up the blog.  Then I realized that it's not about the finished product, it's about the process -- something that's been drummed into my head since I was in design school. So I decided to take my time, work through the process and get done what I could. The fact that I didn't finish the model is not important. I will make it another day.

These are my final images that I created.  It took me a total of about 1 hour to draw and color all of this.

The bus/taxi roof

Random bubble pattern

Image of an angel, style is inspired by
a graphic in my sketches

star pattern, inspired by one of the taxi images

While I was working on this, K decided to join me and make her own designs.  I think she did an awesome job.

K's art

I think it's fun and festive. I loved making the patterns, but I think it could have been more fun with paint...another idea for another day!

Week 3, Day 6: Freebie Friday

For the card today, I took the graphic pattern from yesterday and added a little something to create a little pop to the card.

Click here to go to the download page to get your card!

Here's a are the 2 images for comparison....

original graphic pattern

revised graphic pattern

 ....can you spot the difference between them?

Tomorrow: Weekly Wrap Up!

Week 3, Day 5: Going Graphic, Part 2

So I did it.  I created a graphic representation of the extruded polymer clay pattern, and here it is:

Oh, and also here is my 'lil retro girl.  I might just have been inspired by her outfit!  What do you think?