Just when you start to lag and wilt in the summer heat, along come the cheery daylilies! I played with a green theme here to bring them into the late summer / early fall season. There’s so much fun to be had playing with earthy tones right now. I can Read more…
In my opinion, melons are the color of summer as much as blue skies and green grass — perhaps even more so, since they are so seasonal and autumnal days can have sharp blue skies, too. There’s a lot of variation in melon colors, from color intensity to contrast, which Read more…
In design, think of your art and the surface you’d like it to cover as a relationship. If there were a mathematical formula that predicted the success of that relationship, you might just be interested, right? In probability theory, the practice of identifying a standard deviation between relationships can be Read more…
I frequently joke that I like to deco everything. From animals to furniture, giving objects a deco look is one of my favorite things! At one time in college, I studied mesoamerican archaeology, so bringing up some Mayan temples in my designs seemed a natural segue. I played a lot Read more…
Linear decoration is one of the key components of deco design. It was the roaring 20’s, after all, and skyscrapers were popping up left and right. Trams and rails decorated city streets that ran for miles and now you could view them from above, like ants traveling complicated grids. Modern Read more…
Sometimes it’s fun to create pairs of similar motifs to work with in a design. A basic similarity in shape can only help as you work later to arrange your repeats. I also like to pick a unifying element to bring them together. In these beach motifs, both the color Read more…