Collection Brief | August 2026 Read More »
“Quiet Romance” (from Claude and Telva) Theme: Quiet Romance (design target: February 2028) Mood: tender, warm, softly romantic — no literal hearts, no cupids Retail logic: February is Valentine’s season, but the sellable version is soft botanical romance, not novelty red-and-pink Structure: hero + two coordinates + blender. The 3 motifs (this is all you […]
Collection Brief | July 2026 Read More »
“Forget-Me-Not” (from Claude) One theme, one palette, four prints, three motifs. This is the whole thing. Draw only what’s on this page. Theme: Sweet Motifs (SS27) Mood: soft & sweet Product: quilting cotton, fat-quarter scale Structure: hero + two coordinates + blender. Note on realism: forget-me-nots are blue in nature, but this is surface design,
Spoonflower’s New Artist Application Changed My July Plan Read More »
I got de-railed. Spoonflower requires now that you apply to be an artist. Not gonna lie, I felt my adrenaline shoot up a bit. July was supposed to be the month I made my first repeat pattern and got it onto Spoonflower. Instead, Spoonflower rolled out a one-shot artist application, a big project landed on
Still Researching, and Why That’s Not the Same as Stalling Read More »
June was a month of inputs, not outputs. I curated my inbox, sat through the Profitable Artist Summit, and filled pages with notes. Not one finished pattern to show for it. June was hectic, I skipped some of my daily drawing. I’m still calling it a good month. What “still researching” looked like in June
Do You Really Need a Signature Style? Yes, but What’s the Rush? Read More »
When you spend enough time around surface pattern design, one phrase starts following you everywhere. Signature style. Find your signature style. You need a signature style. My first reaction was to push back on it. So, I went looking for how you actually get a signature style, and I went looking without wanting to pay
How I Started Surface Pattern Design at 50 Read More »
In the first four months of 2026, I went from “I haven’t drawn in twenty years” to drawing every single day, building this website, and figuring out that surface pattern design was the thing I actually wanted to chase. I did most of it on a budget. The one course I paid real money for
