by groovity
Hope that everyone had a lovely holiday season! Looking forward to 2015. 2014 was my most productive year ever! I googled the Polish translation as well 😉
Categories: Group Design Project, New Design • Tags: 2014, advent calendar 2014, advent challenge 2014, christmas, floral, flower, greeting, groovity, heart, holiday, mary tanana, merry, polish, seasonal, wycinanki, xmas
by groovity
Where have I been the past few days? Trying to figure out how to put my (new!) computer back together! It completely crashed after downloading a new driver, and I had to reset it and figure out how to retrieve my data! Ack! Anyway, please enjoy Part 5 of my Advent Challenge. Here are the first 20. I’ve been posting these on Instagram. I LOVE Instagram! Find me by clicking HERE. Thanks so much for stopping by!
Categories: Color, Group Design Project, Instagram, New Design • Tags: advent calendar 2014, advent challenge 2014, christmas, dala horse, frozen, holiday, rock candy, snow, snowflake, surface pattern design, three kings, vector, wycinanki, xmas
by groovity
Part 4 of my Advent Challenge! Here are the first sixteen! I’ve been posting these on Instagram. I LOVE Instagram! Find me by clicking HERE. Thanks so much for stopping by!
Categories: Color, Group Design Project, Instagram, New Design • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, art, bird, christmas, color, colorful, create, design, embellish, gingerbread house, henna, holiday, illustration, partridge, pattern, pear tree, star, surface design, surface pattern design, texture, xmas
by groovity
Part 3 of my Advent Challenge blog posts…. I’ve always been wanting to do a matryoshka series of designs, so I decided to use her for the angel. I love how she came out! Here are the first twelve days in block format. I’ve been posting these on Instagram. I LOVE Instagram! Find me by clicking HERE. Thanks so much for stopping by!
Categories: Color, Group Design Project, Instagram, New Design • Tags: adobe, adventcalendar2014, adventchallenge2014, angel, christmas, doll, dove, henna surface pattern design, holiday, illustrate, illustration, illustrator, jumper, maiden, matryoshka, nutcracker, pysanky, sweater, xmas
by groovity
I’ve kind of forgotten to keep up with my Advent blog postings! I’ll post a few illustrations every day, because it’s almost Christmas! Yikes, where did the year go? Here are 8 days in block format. I think they look really cool together! any ideas what I can do with these (for next year)? I’ve been posting these on Instagram. I LOVE Instagram! Find me by clicking HERE. Thanks so much for stopping by!
Categories: Color, Design, Group Design Project, Instagram, New Design • Tags: art, bell, christmas, christmas market, color, daily, day, design, draw, groovity, henna, holiday, illustration, pattern, pysanky, surface design, surface pattern, surface pattern design, xmas
by groovity
So….I’ve decided to participate in The Advent Challenge 2014, organized by Faye Brown of Faye Brown Designs. I wasn’t sure if I could keep up with it, but I decided to try. And it turns out I’m having such a fun time creating these daily holiday illustrations! First I’ll do a rough sketch of the layout. Then I’ll scan it into my computer and redraw it in Adobe Illustrator. Every day has a different theme. I’m trying to keep each […]
Categories: Color, Group Design Project, Instagram, New Design, Pinterest, Twitter • Tags: advent, adventchallenge2014, christmas, christmaschallenge, create, creative, draw, groovity, hat, holiday, holidaydesign, illustrate, illustration, marytanana, ornament, penguin, project, santa, sketch, snowflake, snowman, surfacepatterndesign, texture, tree, vintage, xmas, xmasdesign
by groovity
My friend, Faye Brown, has been doing an Advent Design Challenge for a few years now. I think this year I’ll give it a go! Every day you make some sort of design, drawing, poem, ANYTHING you can think of that’s related to the daily theme. Everyone posts their creation on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Flickr….anywhere and everywhere! This year the hashtag is #adventchallenge2014. It’s really fun and exciting to see what everyone creates! I am not sure if I’ll be […]
Categories: Group Design Project, Instagram, New Design, Twitter • Tags: adventchallenge2014, christmas, colors, colorway, create, design, draw, ecourse, faye brown, festive, fun, groovity, hashtag, holiday, skillshare, theme, typography, Winter
by groovity
Hi there and welcome to our Tropical Fusion BlogHop!! Our BlogHop is a collaboration of over 40 international designers and spread out over 4 days, giving you plenty of time to discover all of the amazing talent in our fabulous group. This year we’ve chosen an exciting tropical theme which is also a big trend in this year’s market, and have incorporated Pantone’s Color of the Year, “Radiant Orchid”, into our designs. You’ve probably just visited Lisa Deighan’s fabulous blog. […]
Categories: Bloghop, Color, Design, Group Design Project, New Design • Tags: animal print, Bloghop, color of the year 2014, exotic, flora, floral, flower, jungle, pantone, radiant orchid, surface pattern design, tropical
by groovity
Good golly Miss Molly, I haven’t posted in…ummm..well, a really long time. Why? Because I took yet another fabulous e-course called “Make Art That Sells”, from Lilla Rogers. Lilla is a well-known artist’s agent and put together a very inspiring, educational, exhausting, exhilarating, and fabulous 5 week intensive course that made me push myself to another level. Yay! Now that I’ve recharged my batteries with a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with my family, I wanted to finally post about my experience. […]
Categories: Bloghop, Design, Group Design Project, New Design • Tags: art, class, craft, create, design, doodle, draft, illustrate, illustrator, learn, make, photoshop, quilt, school, sew, Sharpie, sketch
by groovity
Hey there! CAN YOU EVEN BELIEVE THAT IT’S SEPTEMBER ALREADY??? I can’t! And to kick off the month, I’d like to share my FREE calendar page that I’ve designed!! Here it is…… About ME: Mary Tanana is a designer who is inspired by many things; art, photography, gardening, landscapes and nature. She approaches her work with a boho, edgy flair. Mary has had a life-long love affair with anything patterned, and after a long and successful career as an award […]
Categories: Freebie, Group Design Project, New Design • Tags: calendar, download, floral, flower, free, freebie, Jenean Morrison, Jessica Swift, Josephine Kimberling, Kaffe Fasset, sunflower, surface pattern design
where creativity grows...by Mary Tanana
where creativity grows...by Mary Tanana
where creativity grows...by Mary Tanana
where creativity grows...by Mary Tanana
where creativity grows...by Mary Tanana
where creativity grows...by Mary Tanana
Family-owned since 1915
The experiences of a family who have relocated from Scotland to Pennsylvania
design & illustration
Illustration is the passion of my life!
Sharing a little bit about my art and my experiences as an artist. www.carolinacotoart.com
"to be in a wonderful state of creative chaos due to an overactive imagination that is always questioning...what if"
where creativity grows...by Mary Tanana
where creativity grows...by Mary Tanana
where creativity grows...by Mary Tanana
Celebrating the creativity that makes life a little lovelier.
where creativity grows...by Mary Tanana
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." -Maya Angelou
Design de Superfície • Surface Design
