"Willow Blue" on Spoonflower

"Willow Blue" printed on Spoonflower cotton poplin

My newest collection on Spoonflower is "Willow Blue."  It's a small collection based on my stylized drawing of a willow tree.  I converted this drawing into a digital brush and stayed with a palette of three colors: white and two shades of blue.  The above picture shows Spoonflower 8x8 fabric swatches printed on cotton poplin.  This design is also available on gift wrap and wallpaper.

Day 3 of the Spoonflower Challenge

Day Three of the Spoonflower Challenge -- the prompt is TREE.  I did two -- my idea of a blue spruce and a willow tree.  The willow -- now that I look at it, it looks more like some sort of tropical tree but I was trying to imitate the layering of willow leaves.  Also, it seems as if our strongest winds are out of the south and all our trees have a tilt toward the north.  I did both trees with fine point sharpies.

Meditation

There is a willow tree by our red handled water pump by the kitchen door.  It planted itself and it appears to be a very intelligent tree having taken root next to a dripping water source.  I enjoy watching it change through the seasons.  In spring, its leaves take on that new green that only newly unfurled leaves can have, then the willow's leaves grow into their beautiful summer green until the blast of July.  Now my willow is losing leaves.  It isn't dormant yet but I can tell her energy is focused into just staying alive in these 100 plus degree days of high summer.

On Spoonflower there is a design I created to honor this wonderful willow. It's a photograph of the beautiful willow leaves taken into a posterized view.  On top of the leaves is a poem called "Meditation."  The companion fabric design can be seen here.  These designs are part of my "Fat Quarters Collection" on Spoonflower.

I made a pillow using two fat quarter of Spoonflower Kona cotton.

Repeat design of willow leaves for "Meditation."

Pillow made from the "Meditation" fat quarter on Spoonflower.