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Napoleon: A New Collection
From 1798 to 1801, Napoleon Bonaparte invaded the Ottoman territories of Egypt and Syria. After his Egyptian campaign of 1798-1799,...
John Wylie
Sep 17, 2020


Arches: A New Collection
Arches is a new collection for the home decor market. The designs incorporate softened abstract geometric shapes, arches, and overlaid...
John Wylie
Sep 9, 2020


Painterly Abstracts
I've been having a lot of fun creating painterly abstract designs using Affinity Photo as well as Adobe Photoshop. Using a variety of...
John Wylie
Jul 30, 2020


More Scarf Print Fun!
I've continued to play around digital painting using Affinity Photo to develop prints suitable for silk scarves. Here is another design...
John Wylie
Jun 16, 2020


Scarf Print Designs
I've been working on something new these days, scarf prints! For these designs I decided to create abstract, painterly designs using only...
John Wylie
Jun 15, 2020


Colourful Coordinates
Previously I posted an image of a collection I'm working on at this time. I was wondering if it was too colourful. Well, I've stuck with...
John Wylie
Jun 4, 2020


Painterly Abstracts: Connected
I've been playing around lately with Affinity Photo, creating abstract designs and putting them into repeat. It has been fun using the...
John Wylie
Jun 4, 2020


Too Colourful?
I've started working on another Jacobean-inspired pattern incorporating hand-drawn motifs. I think I've gone a little crazy with the...
John Wylie
May 25, 2020


Winter Blues
Anither round with the Random Motif Generator! This time I got; curtains, high key colour palette, winter, collage! I did three abstract...
John Wylie
May 4, 2020


A New Botanical Collection
Roses, hydrangea, peonies, tulips, and freesia cometogether in a new botanical collection! It's been nice to slow down, get off the...
John Wylie
May 4, 2020


An Easter Pattern...maybe...
Another round with the Random Motif Generator that I mentioned in my previous blog post! This time around the Generator gave me;...
John Wylie
Apr 7, 2020


The Random Motif Generator
One of the many great things I've been introduced to through the Textile Design Lab is the Random Motif Generator. The idea is to use...
John Wylie
Apr 6, 2020


Yin Yang Collection
This collection started from a series of ten black and white paintings of abstract motifs, marks, and organic shapes. The painted motifs...
John Wylie
Mar 24, 2020


Oleander
Oleander, a collection of patterns using pen and ink drawings of branches, oleander blooms and organic shapes, for home decor. Now...
John Wylie
Mar 20, 2020


A Sneak Peek
Here's a sneak peek into a new collection I've just started working on. The influences for this collection are Japanese patterns and...
John Wylie
Feb 19, 2020


Two Options, No Decision!
I'm currently working on developing a pattern that will be used on an accent pillow. At this point, it is a single pattern not an entire...
John Wylie
Feb 19, 2020


Pink Hydrangea Pattern
The basis for this design is a watercolour painting of a hydrangea bloom I did years ago; I just never seemed to get around to using the...
John Wylie
Feb 13, 2020


Santorini
So excited! Santorini, my entry for Spoonflower's Classic Blue design challenge, placed within the top ten (#9 to be exact)!!! What a...
John Wylie
Feb 6, 2020


Spoonflower Challenge: Santorini in Classic Blue
For this week's Spoonflower challenge, designers were asked to create a pattern inspired by Pantone's Colour of the Year for 2020,...
John Wylie
Jan 27, 2020


Spoonflower Challenge: Black, White, and Painterly
Wild Fields! My entry for Spoonflower's Black, White and Painterly design challenge. The flora was hand-drawn using ink, calligraphy...
John Wylie
Jan 9, 2020
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