Have you ever had a project where you just couldn’t get the results that you were looking for? About nine months ago I wanted to design a butterfly collection. I worked on several different designs but I just couldn’t get the results that I was looking for. So, I put the designs away and started working on something else.
Several months later I thought I would give the butterfly collection another try. Again I worked on the designs tweaking a little here and there, but once again it just wasn’t what I was looking for.
Then one day out of the blue I had an idea for using a different technique, but I couldn’t think of a subject matter to use the technique on. Then I thought about the butterfly collection. Once again I pulled out the collection and this time I started to apply the new technique, and there it was. The butterflies were now looking what I was trying to accomplish all those months ago. Now I have the whimsical butterfly collection that I wanted.
If you are looking for and anticipating typical, traditional butterflies, I’m afraid that you are going to be disappointed because these butterflies are in no way typical or traditional.
My original vision of these butterflies was to instead of giving them symmetrical wing designs, I wanted to create an illusion that the wings were feathers. Realizing I had created butterflies that were so non-traditional I quickly decided to call them outer space butterflies and gave each of them names of either a planet or a moon from a planet, thus naming the butterflies, Jupiter, Luna, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto and Venus.
This is the start of this collection and I am sure there will be others added in the future.
Showing posts with label whimsical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label whimsical. Show all posts
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011
New Art for The New Year
Cubism Art is a style of art that I have been fascinated with, but have had a great deal of difficulty in figuring it out. I first became interested in Cubism Art when I saw a collection created by Pablo Picasso several years go. The thing that drew my attention was the bright colors and odd lines. At first it was confusing to me because it seemed like there were lines in places where lines didn’t belong, but somehow it worked.
As I started finding other artist that created art in this Cubism style, I found most of them bored me and I was not attracted to it at all. However, I always kept going back to Picasso’s work trying to figure it out.
The past couple of years I have tried to create my art using the Cubism style, but I (for some reason unknown to me) could never make it work. Instead it would just be aggravating and frustrate me. I could never feel comfortable while trying to work it out.
Then last month I was trying to work on some new art, when all of the sudden, and much to my surprise, there it was. What I had just created was the Cubism style of art. All of the sudden, in that moment, I finally understood Cubism Art. I understood the purpose of the lines and what made each individual piece of the art all flow together as one. Finally, I got it! However, it still felt boring to me.
Now that I understood how it worked, my next challenge was to figure out how to bring this style of art to life. I had to figure out how I could mix this Cubism style with my Whimsical style. I am happy to announce that for this New Year I have New Art of which I call “Whimsical Cubism”.
To start with I have three pieces of Whimsical Cubism art; “Heart”, “Flower” and “Butterfly”. All three pieces turned out to be really fun, happy pieces, and for those that like bright colors (like I do) you are going to love it. I think that this is going to be one of those things where you are going to either “love it” or you are going “hate it”, I can’t see anybody having the attitude of ‘take it or leave it’.
So, which is it for you?
As I started finding other artist that created art in this Cubism style, I found most of them bored me and I was not attracted to it at all. However, I always kept going back to Picasso’s work trying to figure it out.
The past couple of years I have tried to create my art using the Cubism style, but I (for some reason unknown to me) could never make it work. Instead it would just be aggravating and frustrate me. I could never feel comfortable while trying to work it out.
Then last month I was trying to work on some new art, when all of the sudden, and much to my surprise, there it was. What I had just created was the Cubism style of art. All of the sudden, in that moment, I finally understood Cubism Art. I understood the purpose of the lines and what made each individual piece of the art all flow together as one. Finally, I got it! However, it still felt boring to me.
Now that I understood how it worked, my next challenge was to figure out how to bring this style of art to life. I had to figure out how I could mix this Cubism style with my Whimsical style. I am happy to announce that for this New Year I have New Art of which I call “Whimsical Cubism”.
To start with I have three pieces of Whimsical Cubism art; “Heart”, “Flower” and “Butterfly”. All three pieces turned out to be really fun, happy pieces, and for those that like bright colors (like I do) you are going to love it. I think that this is going to be one of those things where you are going to either “love it” or you are going “hate it”, I can’t see anybody having the attitude of ‘take it or leave it’.
So, which is it for you?
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Birdie Village
Birdie Village a delightful collection of whimsical and colorful birdhouse.
Before I started working on the Birdie Village Collection I did many house of research in looking at as many birdhouses I could find. I first looked at what all the houses had in common, and then I looked at what was different about each house. In conclusion I determined that they are all as much the same as they are different, which made it really easy from the designers point of view.
For each individual birdhouse I first started with a shape. Once I had the shape that I wanted, then I would just play around with different colors and accents until I had the final birdhouse that I wanted.
Birdie Village is my most popular collections. My husband keeps asking me why people like birdhouse so much. I don’t know the answer to that question, but I do know that I like birdhouses very much.
I wonder what it would be like to live in one of these birdhouses. What if the house we lived in looked like a birdhouse? What would your house look like? Now wouldn’t that be fun!
Before I started working on the Birdie Village Collection I did many house of research in looking at as many birdhouses I could find. I first looked at what all the houses had in common, and then I looked at what was different about each house. In conclusion I determined that they are all as much the same as they are different, which made it really easy from the designers point of view.
For each individual birdhouse I first started with a shape. Once I had the shape that I wanted, then I would just play around with different colors and accents until I had the final birdhouse that I wanted.
Birdie Village is my most popular collections. My husband keeps asking me why people like birdhouse so much. I don’t know the answer to that question, but I do know that I like birdhouses very much.
I wonder what it would be like to live in one of these birdhouses. What if the house we lived in looked like a birdhouse? What would your house look like? Now wouldn’t that be fun!
Sunday, September 19, 2010
When Tuscan Meets Debi
Do you remember the old Reese Cup Candy Commercials? “You got your chocolate in my peanut butter.” “You got your peanut butter in my chocolate”. That is what my coffee cup collection reminds me of.
I love Tuscan/Mediterranean architecture and décor. I love the stucco and plaster as well as the open spaces and rounded features. I just really like everything about it. Having been an architectural drafter (professionally) I have designed many Tuscan/Mediterranean “dream” homes that I would like to live in.
When I was thinking about creating the Coffee Cup Collection I knew I wanted to do it in the Tuscan/Mediterranean style. I first created the backgrounds which was easy to do in the Tuscan style. But then when I went to design the individual cups something happened. You see none of my art style is of the Tuscan style. About 90% of my art is bright tropical colors with whimsical designs, (not at all typical of traditional Tuscan design). At first I started to scrap everything and start over, but instead I decided to preserver on and see what happens.
After I had completed the designs and I was looking at them and it was very apparent to me there were two distinctly different styles of art in each piece. That is when the old Reese Cup commercial popped in my head. I thought to myself, ‘well I guess this is what you get when you mix Tuscan Design with Debi Payne Designs’. At least I can say I don’t think this version of Tuscan has been done before.
I love Tuscan/Mediterranean architecture and décor. I love the stucco and plaster as well as the open spaces and rounded features. I just really like everything about it. Having been an architectural drafter (professionally) I have designed many Tuscan/Mediterranean “dream” homes that I would like to live in.
When I was thinking about creating the Coffee Cup Collection I knew I wanted to do it in the Tuscan/Mediterranean style. I first created the backgrounds which was easy to do in the Tuscan style. But then when I went to design the individual cups something happened. You see none of my art style is of the Tuscan style. About 90% of my art is bright tropical colors with whimsical designs, (not at all typical of traditional Tuscan design). At first I started to scrap everything and start over, but instead I decided to preserver on and see what happens.
After I had completed the designs and I was looking at them and it was very apparent to me there were two distinctly different styles of art in each piece. That is when the old Reese Cup commercial popped in my head. I thought to myself, ‘well I guess this is what you get when you mix Tuscan Design with Debi Payne Designs’. At least I can say I don’t think this version of Tuscan has been done before.
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