Happy Holidays 2015

Wow...I am just looking at my all time history of this blog - so far it had over 20 000 clicks.

 Thank you everyone who is stopping by from time to time. I appreciate every reader and every single comment. 

I am happy we are such a great, creative community who loves to get inspired by each other's art. 

My goal for next year is spending more time being creative and show more of my work. 

I love what I do and I hope you do, too ! 

Happy Holidays and a very Happy and Creative New Year !

Love, Maike

Holiday wall art available for instant download here.

Lemon Mix

Today I show you my design "LemonMix" on Kess InHouse products. I originally designed it for the last blog hop I was participating in.

Beautiful decorative door mat ...

Decorative door mat "Lemon Mix"

Great pillow sham ...

Pillow sham "Lemon Mix"

Always needed in the kitchen ...

Cutting board "Lemon Mix"

I think the shower curtain is my favourite product with Kess InHouse ...

Shower curtain "Lemon Mix"

Cooking up a storm with lemons ...

Apron "Lemon Mix"

Happy Friday !

Floating Circles

Today I want to show you my design "Floating Circles" in pastel colours. 

It looks great on many different Kess InHouse products.

I would love to do yoga on this mat.

Yoga mat "Floating Circles"

And I can not have enough of those small everything bags...

Everything bag "Floating Circles"

Super soft ...

Memory foam bath mat "Floating Circles"

And my personal favourite ...

Shower curtain "Floating Circles"

Happy Thursday !

MATS Bootcamp May

May is almost over and I feel this month was just flying by. Make Art That Sells boot camp is finished for this months and I have to admit I had not much time to spend on this month's assignment but I was still enjoying it, especially looking at all amazing art from my fellow #mats designers. The topic was designing a plate with crustaceans in the front and a pattern in the background. The May gallery is open to view now and I can tell you already the work of my fellow designers will blow your mind - just stunning. 

Crustacean plate   copyright©Pattern Jots by Maike Thoma 2015

Happy Thursday !

World Lupus Day 2015 ( and Mother's Day )

Today is World Lupus Day and my fellow designer and friend Dawn Clarkson is having a butterfly showcase over at her blog Nice and Fancy in its third year to raise awareness of Lupus disease.

"Lupus is a chronic disease which can affect anyone at any age, it is hard to diagnose and the exact causes of the condition are still unknown. Lupus, considered to be a rare disease is becoming more and more common. The butterfly is universally accepted as the symbol which represents the disease."

  

I m very happy I was able to contribute with a butterfly design and a small donation to help to create interest towards Lupus. 

Due to the great response of Dawn's call for butterfly designs she is having four posts in total today over at her blog. 

What a great success already ! 

There is even a Pinterest board where you can see all designs together.

Please take your time and check out all gorgeous butterfly designs at Nice and Fancy.

Butterfly design for World Lupus Day 2015 / copyright©Pattern Jots by Maike Thoma 2015

We also do not want to forget it is Mother's Day today...I am wishing all amazing moms out there a very Happy Mother's Day - may it be filled with joy !

Happy Mother's Day Card / copyright©Pattern Jots by Maike Thoma 2015

Happy Sunday !!!

Quotes

The lettering from last week started something in me...I kept going and made those two Zen/Taoist quotes out of my lettering. 

You can also find them in my Etsy store for instant download. 

Zen Proverb "All You Have Is Now" design copyright©Pattern Jots by Maike Thoma 2015

Taoist Proverb " The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins With a Single Step" design copyright©Pattern Jots by Maike Thoma 2015

I am off to Spring break and will be back beginning of May ! 

Enjoy the the first warm sunshine ! 

Happy Thursday !

MATS Bootcamp April

After a quiet ( and very cold ) Easter Weekend I am in full swing back into designing. 

I was very much looking forward to the new "mini" assignment for Lilla Roger's bootcamp new mini assignment for the month of April. 

It is lettering...the words "The Global Art Gathering". 

The Global Art Gathering is actually taking place in June in Brighton and I wished I could go and meet fellow designers as well as Lilla and many other fabulous speakers at the event. 

Usually if I do lettering I start designing a whole alphabet and then use any letters I need for my illustration, patterns, etc. I did the same this time but pulled out my collection of Origami papers and started cutting out the letters. Next I did some hand lettering and while putting the words together, I also used some letters I have done some time back already and mixed it all up. I am happy with the result and I might develop some quotes for my Etsy shop in this style.

Lettering cut out of Origami paper

My finished design for the "mini" assignment   copyright©Pattern Jots by Maike Thoma 2015

Happy Friday everyone !

Happy Easter !

Easter Greetings !

Sneak Peek

Life is busy and I am always grateful if I can sneak in some time to draw. I wanted to draw something in black.

I always love black and white art - I find it extremely powerful and it is simple at the same time.

Thinking about what I can draw ( and looks good in black and white only ) vases came into my mind and I started drawing some...just as shapes.

Here is a sneak peek...next week I will show you my new product(s) I made from it for my Etsy store...it is still in progress.

Sketches : Shapes of vases

Happy Thursday !

Happy Dance !

I have to admit I did my little happy dance a while ago, when I found out my submissions for the new Print&Pattern Geometric book were accepted and my work will actually be shown in the newest book of the fabulous Print&Pattern series by Bowie Style 

( Thank you Marie for including me ! )

The first Print&Pattern book ( the blue one ) was my first book about surface pattern design ever and I still love this one as well as the following books "Print&Pattern 2" and "Print&Pattern Kids". 

Of course it was my dream to be included into one of these books one day but I was not sure to ever achieve my dream. I remember I submitted for the kids call and I did not make it. So I tried again for the Geometric book ( which really suits my style best ) and my work was accepted. 

Hurray ! 

Amazing designers are showing their beautiful designs in this book and many of them are fellow students from the "Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design" course by Rachael Taylor and Beth Kempton.

I think this post is appropriate for the World Book Day 2015 today ! 

Who does not love a good book ? 

No matter if it is a book with lots of pictures or a good novel. 

I love books and I truly believe you can not own enough of it ( especially art books... ;) )

New book Print&Pattern Geometric by Bowie Style ( picture source )

I am on page 194 ! ( picture source )

Happy World Book Day and Happy Thursday !