The flowers that bloom in the spring…

For various reasons I'm not able to post most of the designs which I've been working on recently, so I'll just carry on with the series of bag designs I did for Cherri some time ago. These all involved flowers in what you might call a folk art style, although really they're just a little too sophisticated to be called real folk art. But they're attractive enough, and not TOO sophisticated!

Here's the first one

and here's another with flowers in a similar style

There's not really a lot to say about these – they were simple and fun to do, and didn't require a lot of thought. The circular "format" of a conventional flower lends itself to all sorts of interesting patterns and textures, and of course you can use just about any colour combination you like, and it will still (probably!) turn out fine

Now, I probably won't be posting regularly for a while. Part of the problem is that I'm trying to get to grips with PEDesign v.11. I've used PE Design digitising software for something like 20 years now and it's become something like second nature to me. However, v.11 is different. It was doubtless intended for commercial digitisers, and those who digitise simple things like clip art, because it has a lot of features which would be useful for them. Unfortunately those features are of no use whatsoever to those who digitise more intricate and "arty" designs, and indeed they often get in the way of more expressive digitising. So I'm having a hard time of it. Don't misunderstand me – it's an excellent and powerful software package, and I can hardly blame the company for trying to appeal to the commercial market. But I'm finding it tricky to adapt it to what I want it to do, so it will be a while before any new designs appear