INSPIRATIONS FROM NATURE

This is the view outside my window today (and will be the view until April most likely), so I went to my iPhone photo history for inspiration.

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Saint Anthony Park is a neighborhood that has absolutely lush gardens when spring finally does roll around. I take photos often of these flowers when I walk through this neighborhood. These are what make up most of my inspiration photos. The photo of the white flower on the wood is one I remember taking when we were looked at our first house we considered buying in this neighborhood. I love that photo because even though we didn't buy that house, the flower reminds me that I felt like this neighborhood was home.

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I additionally added a couple of photos of moths/butterflies and a cute little frog. I don't think I'll go in that direction for this set since I don't have enough photos of either of those things, but I want to collect more as I see them this spring and summer for a future pattern set.

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I pulled some of the floral photos that didn't have as much definition for color inspiration as well as images of my wedding flowers; however, I don't necessarily think I need to go outside my original images for color. I additionally pulled some closeups of modern art from design classes I taught and from museums. The photo of the locks is from my husband's trip to Korea for work. And the sunset is a view from our honeymoon cabin in Cape Cod, MA.

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MOODBOARD

WORD / PHRASE

Ideas for words / phrases:

- Neighborhood garden

- St. Anthony Park gardens / St. Anthony Gardens

- Minnesota Spring

SKETCHES

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ADOBE SKETCH TRACES

I decided to use my iPad and Adobe Sketch (the mobile app for Illustrator) to trace my sketches. If I were to do this again, I think I'd try inking + LiveTrace as I don't love the blob brush look. I've just had bad experiences with LiveTrace as it never lives up to my expectations and I end up editing stuff more than I anticipated. I would also like to try this to give the Live Paint Bucket tool more of a chance.

I decided to go ahead and color the stuff in Adobe Sketch on my iPad, making sure to create a separate layer for the outline vs. the colored objects. These are not any particular color, just random colors I chose to differentiate parts of my motifs.

I ended up using the Live Paint Bucket tool for the leaves, which made me glad I colored the stuff on my iPad because of all the cleanup work that tool creates; on the other hand, I had a lot of cleanup with the eraser tool since the coloring I did on my iPad didn't stay within the lines.

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COLOR PALETTE

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I don't typically grab colors from photos because I love color and I always end up grabbing too many colors! I work in graphic design (not typically illustration) so I'm usually looking for 2-5 colors for a palette. Usually when I want a color palette, I look to fashion or art because the color palettes are already curated and I can choose a smaller color selection from that vs. millions of colors in a photograph. The above color palette is narrowed down from the original 40+ colors I chose from my photographs. I eliminated colors based on how similar they were to each other. Since I hope to print my work on Fabric, if I had a Pantone fabric swatchbook, I would have converted to Pantones before eliminating colors and then compared the colors to the fabric swatches. I usually do this with my color swatches for graphic design print publications, so I imagine I'd do the same for fabric.

IN-PROGRESS SCREENCAPS

Here are some in-progress screen shots from Illustrator. I started playing around with the bouquet-building idea for a pattern since I haven't done that before. Saint Anthony Park Gardens - image 15 - student project

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After I built the repeating bouquet pattern, I decided I didn't like the space between the bouquets. I'm in the process of filling this in with my motifs. I want this to be a really lush pattern. The patterns I've made so far are pretty basic, which is fine, but I want to be able to build more elaborate patterns. Next I want to figure out how to better use layers of different objects (not in the software, but with my art). An example of this is Bonnie's "Fly by Night" pattern where she layers the birds over the repeat pattern of the clouds.

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ON PRODUCTS
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Calee Cecconi

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