Hmmm, looks like I haven't posted on this blog for awhile. So here are my favorite pieces from MATS A class with Lilla Rogers.  I've been putting images on Behance instead. 

Coin purse concept. I imagine the flowers would be printed, the line work on them done in gold thermography, and the "gemstones" laser cut from a shiny surface fabric. 

Dinnerware project using succulent imagery

The Fox and the Crow

book cover concept

I played around with a couple of ideas for this months MATS class theme; jelly. 

 And in the end I went back to my first idea, flying jelly.  

I think I like it... mostly. I wanted to do a main pattern and a couple of secondary patterns. Individually I think they are good but they don't completely hang together are a group. Shady chevron in the middle is the outlier. 

This month was much better than last month.

Jelly fabric design

The tightrope walking jelly head.

I'm trying a different style from yesterday.  I'm calling it Texture Jellies, because I haven't used a lot of textures in my previous work.  The texture source is courtesy of a pre-schooler's tempera painting.

Actually I'm not crazy about my cuckoo clock image from a couple of weeks ago.  Too conservative, too expected, too too... So this idea just popped up in the wee morning hours.  

I'm calling it Cuckoo Jello Clock.

Jell-O dirigibles?  I hope so.  Right now they look more like parachutes. Nothing wrong with parachutes though.  I'm loving the fantasy of it. Floating Jell-O. Maybe there is a whole-nuther world to be found.

My latest sketch for MATS  class.  Tbhis is the idea that woke me up at 1:30 this morning. Dirigible Jellies.  I can see this working into lots of other images. 

Pastel Leaves

Scattered Leaves.  A color and pattern study.  I'd like to say it was quick, but I did fuss with it and find a color way that seemed new to me.  Looks kind of retro.

Also, I had to look up the spelling. Seems that leaves is still the plural of leaf, but it may be considered out of style by the end of the week. 

Today I decided to do something quickly and not think about it too much, try to just let it flow. So I went with a cicada. When I was a kid everyone I knew just hated that buzzing sawing sound.  For some reason I loved it.  Which is weird, because I'm really sensitive to sounds, so much so that I find it difficult to listen to music when I'm typing. Anyway I love the sound of cicadas and miss them in this late winter cold. 

So the cicada is new today. All the other parts I had sitting around in various files.

Strike a Note Greeting Card Set

This is the cutest idea. One I put in the category of "I wish I had thought of this". 

 Little LP notecards that come in a sleeve/envelope.  They can be found at: http://www.modcloth.com/shop/stationery/strike-a-note-greeting-card-set

Acorn and pinecone cell phone cover and the doodles that inspired it.

This is a spin off from the MATS class, cuckoo clock assignment.  Two blue birds have found a new residence.  I call it "Vacation Home"

Finished this today.  

There are those little daisies, or maybe it's asters, but they, along with dandelions remind me of spring.