Art Nouveau Patterns

Have I mentioned how OBSESSED I am with Art Nouveau?? In my opinion, it's by far the best art period ever (take that, Italian Renaissance!). For the last few days, I have had the extreme pleasure of browsing a large collection of vintage public domain art, then creating new patterns based on little bits and pieces of some, merging them with textures of others, changing colors....you get the picture.

These were done for my work, and will hopefully make it on some stationery products.

 Here's an example of an original:

And here is the pattern I created with it:

 

Here are some more:

And here is one I made quickly using my own art, using some little doodles I scanned in:

(shhhhh, don't tell my boss, I was supposed to use public domain art , hehe:))

Scrapbooking Paper Designs

Because my last post was so corporate, I thought I'd switch things up a bit, and share some cutesy bird designs I created for scrapbook papers. 

I almost never need to actually DRAW something thing at work (thank you, iStock for ruining it for all us illustrators out there), so when I came in one morning and my boss asked me to do exactly that, I figured he had forgotten to take his medication or something. 

But no, he actually wanted me to spend the morning drawing little doodles of birds and flowers and......swirly lines!!! I was in heaven.

Then the next day, it was back to making sell sheets and catalogs and dollar store packaging. bah.