New shower curtain and bath mat arrived yesterday. The colors reflect the colors of our Florida home ~ from my Society6 shop (“Prickly Cactus” design). Colorful and fun! It’s available on a variety of items … from tote bags to iPhone cases here: https://society6.com/product/prickly-cactus79273_print…
Oh … P.S. It’s 20% off and FREE shipping until midnight Pacific Time tonight!
Hey, I totally missed this a little more than a week ago – my design was featured on the Spoonflower blog! Check it out …http://blog.spoonflower.com/2016/09/do-the-monster-mash/
Fall Floral 2016 is a digital design created in Affinity Designer.
I worked with a mouse, gradient fills, and layers to create this fall floral pattern.
I always loved fall’s prettier colors – the yellows, oranges, purples, and – of course – magentas. So I played around with my Affinity Designer program using Spoonflower’s September weekly prompt ~ “Autumn Harvest.” I created a digital design, using paint brushes in the Affinity Designer program. (How do you like my Indian corn? When I was growing up, my parents always hung a bunch of ornamental corn by the front door, and there were always pumpkins, too, when autumn came to town.)
Above is the “Up North” traditional fall color palette for this design. Originally, I created it with lots of pinks and purples, which I thought was unusual but didn’t really get the corn and pumpkins to stand out enough and I wanted more contrast … more warmth. Below, you can see the original with the pink background. I’ve decided to call it “Down South” Autumn Harvest …
Continuing to push the envelope, here’s another colorway which I am calling “Tropical” Autumn Harvest, and I think I like it the very best!
And here it is in watercolor, a version I did before creating the digital designs. I left out the cherries, the apples, the slice of pie in the lower right, and pear in the digital version. There was only so much I could “paint” with my mouse!
Halloween is coming up! Dia De Los Muertos – sugar skulls design
“When I Grow Up” is a Spoonflower design challenge for Headbands of Hope. Textile Design by Cynthia Maniglia – Sand Salt Moon
Hi! The other day, I posted about a new textile design I was working on for Headbands of Hope, a charitable organization that makes fabric headbands for children being treated for cancer. Spoonflower has a design challenge going for this worthy cause.
The theme for the Spoonflower design challenge is “Dreamers.” In my design, I wanted to show diversity and joy, with watercolor figures of girls doing what they dream of doing – whether it’s being a singer/performer, an artist, a posh princess with her little dog, or simply lifting hands to the sky and embracing life.
In my original design (thanks for your encouraging comments and “likes”), I wanted to show the full figures. But after thinking about it, I decided to update my design and rearrange the girls to fill in more of the white space, as this design would be used to make headbands, and it’d be nice if all of the faces could be seen regardless of how the fabric was used in the finished piece. Plus, you can still see the full figures in the new design.
I like this better, and I hope you do too!
Now available in my Society6 shop
Watercolor and water soluble wax pastels on gessoed 140 lb. paper, repeat pattern created in Affinity Designer.
This was a quickie I worked on tonight, taking the cue from my recent textile pattern design competition and further exploring my new fascination with coral.
Happy Summer!
Sand Salt Moon 
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