#robayrepatterns 2017 part 1

I'm gonna try and attempt #patternjanuary #letsmakepatterns. I had such a fun time last year, you should play along too!

I just looked at my blog and was floored to find that I haven’t updated this whole year! I am in disbelief because in my mind I had updated weekly during #PatternJanuary. I’m in such denial that I’m looking around like “Who deleted my posts?!” The whole month of February I was under a cloud, in a funk, and definitely in a rut. Spring is officially here and I have turned the page and feeling like a spring bear emerging from winter hibernation. Time to get back to it. Time to get back to everything. Thanks to Anika‘s organization and promotion once again, I participated in Pattern January and had a super productive January.

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Day 1 was “J is for” and I cut out the days of the month from gelli printed papers. I really like this pattern and would like to scan it and clean it up and possibly put it up on some POD sites for fabric or a phone case or something.

I'm feeling super rusty in my creativity. Even after thinking about today's theme (#citrus) for #patternjanuary all day long, this was all I came up with. Also, this is the first time I've probably touched my watercolors in months. Here's hoping things ge

Day 2 hit me. This is real. A whole month of daily practice and I had not been regularly making or creative in the slightest for a month or more. The theme was Citrus and this was all I could come up with and muster. I felt SO RUSTY and recognized it, but pushed through it, rather than throwing the towel in.

Today's #patternjanuary #snowman is based off of an actual miniature snowman (with button eyes and twist tie arms) I made 6 years ago. You can see a picture of him in my stories. This was created with the #paperby53 app #robayrepatterns

Day 3 was Snowman. I was still feeling unsure of myself and ended up searching my flickr images for inspiration. One nice thing about having been uploading images regularly on flickr for an eternity, is that I have an easily accessible library of images to reference. I picked this miniature snowman I made on our front porch when we lived at the duplex and built it in Paper by 53, on my ipad.

Today's #PatternJanuary theme of #keys reminded me of a pattern I made to (iron-on) print on fabric, ages ago. I used a bunch of clip art keys. I loved the pattern but always felt bad that I had just used clip art. Today was my chance to make a pattern wi

Day 4 – Keys. I reminded myself that even though I love the idea of doing super simple and basic patterns, where I am able lay down a couple brush strokes and voila, it’s finished, the truth is, that when I dig in, spend a lot of time and do the hard work, that is when I get really good results. I grabbed a variety of keys and painted them in watercolor. Here is a progress picture of just the keys with their references.

Good morning and happy Friday! My first repeating #pattern for this #patternjanuary.

Day 5 Octagon. One thing I love about Pattern January is that everyday I have a new theme and since I work a day job, I am thinking about that theme all day long before I get home to actually work on it. On this day I wanted to take some of my irregular geometric shapes used in my work but as silhouettes, and combine them with the striped watercolor lines, as seen on many of my banners, and stationery. The funny thing about this one was that Anika, ended up doing such a similar pattern, it was awesome!

Not too shabby for someone who's never been to a desert. #patternjanuary #desert #robayrepatterns

Day 6 Desert, I was pretty impressed that I came up with this, having never been to the desert in my life

#patternjanuary #mermaids this is pretty much what I planned, but I think tomorrow I may go back in and add details, even if only just scales to the tails. Also, I wanted to do seaweed, but as I was discharging my paintbrush between colors I realized I wi

Day 7 Mermaid watercolor, more to come on this pattern hopefully

Today's #patternjanuary theme was #cutandpaste. I could do this theme everyday 😄❤😄❤😄❤😄

Day 8 Cut & Paste, pretty straight forward and probably one of my favorites

Today's #patternjanuary was themed #fan. Fan didn't thrill really me, but that's what this is about, pushing through until you can find that spark. When I had the idea that I could do more of an abstract shape, and make it into a repeating, fairly geometr

Day 9 Fan – pen and ink in my sketchbook

#patternjanuary #numbers. I try not to look ahead on the prompt list for the month, but if I had, I might not have done a pattern of numbers the very first day. This is now my second for the month. This pattern idea came from a set of pinback buttons I ma

Day 10 – Numbers. This one was inspired by alphabet pinback buttons I’ve made for my shop before

That’s all for now. Stay tuned for 2 more parts!

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Hi, I'm Robyn and I was Hatched from a Kinder Surprise Egg. Graphic Designer by day, Maker of things by night. I have worked as a graphic artist professionally since I was 16 years old. Went on to get my Bachelors of Art from NIU. I like to share my Artwork online at flickr.com/photos/robayre and on my own personal website http://www.robayre.com. I also have an online shop http://www.robayre.etsy.com where you can find more of my "crafty" sorts of things, as well as a random piece of artwork here and there. Oh, and I'm also an occasional contributor to Artomat (artomat.org).

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