Books Adventure Travel Books

Home hobbies is this week's Spoonflower challenge. Arts, crafts, sewing -- these have been hobbies but also necessities. With three daughters to clothe I spent many years sewing and I loved it. But they moved on and so did I. At one point I worked in the DIY industry -- so lots of arts and crafts. Now, in retirement, I'm able to pursue surface design.  Arts, crafts, sewing -- they are what I work at. Hobbies are what I do in my leisure time and for me, it's books and travel. 

My "home hobby" Spoonflower challenge depicts books and travel. When I was still in my teens, I read

The Ant and the Grasshopper

The Spoonflower Design Challenge this week is:

"Teamwork" can be interpreted any way you like – from beavers building a dam to honeybees buzzing around their hive to make honey . . ." 

or ants?

A previous challenge was Garden Party -- so I was already thinking about ants coming to the party.  And who hasn't seen them working as a team carrying cookie crumbs back to their nest? And from there my mind wandered to the tale of The Ant and the Grasshopper.

Spoonflower Design Challenge | Insect Safari

Insect Safari is my first Spoonflower Challenge design for the new year. It was inspired by the section Insect Safari in the chapter

Mosaic Series Again

I'm loving the mosaic series. It has been fun making the little shapes fit together and adding flowers and foliage. This time I was inspired by a photo of "weeds" I took recently on a morning walk. I saw these lovely big (maybe) morning glory leaves highlighted by a ray of sunshine. So glad I caught these in a photo -- the next day they had been mown down. Using Procreate, here is my rendition of the above photo. You can purchase a print of my digital art from my Fine Art America shop.

Mosaic Series

Mexico is the inspiration for the Mosaic Series. I was awed by the beautiful bright mosaics and the gorgeous flowers and plants everywhere. Looking through photos from that trip, sparked the idea to play with an arrangement of plants and mosaics -- bringing the joy of the trip into my artwork. So far I have five different but similar mosaic and plant digital paintings. They make me smile. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. Here is the first.  Enjoy!