Dear all! I am finally on vacation! :) After a couple of weeks sorting through our things in Groningen, Alex and I got rid of most of our belongins, packed two small bags and set off on the road to travel in Southeast Asia… We are in Bangkok and it is a wonderfull feeling to be alive!

Here they are! This is a selection of photos from all 90 of my fabric swatches fresh from the Spoonflower printer :) I love them!  Most of these fabrics are already for sale on my Spoonflower Fabric Shop, where you can order them on various fabrics and of different sizes. Before getting back to my packing I decided to share them with you! What do you think?

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n ]]> http://www.oksancia.com/news/a-whole-lot-of-new-fabrics-with-my-designs-on-spoonflower/feed/ 2 http://www.oksancia.com/news/a-whole-lot-of-new-fabrics-with-my-designs-on-spoonflower/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Optimistic-Art-By-Oksancia/~3/GqxIhzXaVO4/ http://www.oksancia.com/illustrations/imagining-my-new-fabric-designs-on-scarves/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:43:34 +0000 oksancia http://www.oksancia.com/?p=3390 I am day dreaming about scarves today… It is pretty chilly outside.  White mist has covered the streets. On a day like this I love to wrap myself up in colorful warm scarf. While I was imagining how my new series of vector seamless patterns would look on fabric, I came up with these two drawings of ladies wearing scarves with my fabric designs :)

Purple Feathers Silhouettes – this fabric will soon be available on my Spoonflower Shop!

Detailed Leaves – this one will also be soon available on my Spoonflower Shop!

Do you like this idea of creating drawings-previews for my fabric designs? Let me know! :)

Have the most wonderful week!

Elas Escrevem Volume 2 Book Cover

The design for this cover was created by Marina Avila. Check out her portfolio! I really like how my illustration was incorporated and the vibrant colors of the layout.

Would be great to see the book in person! Maybe I’ll order it soon :)

Here is my digital illustration that was licensed from my iStockphoto portfolio for this cover design:

It always makes me very happy to see my illustrations and seamless patterns in use!

Video: My Great Velomobile Adventure: Cycling In Sinner Mango Tricycle

That was a lot of fun and enjoyed cycling in Mango + velomobile so much! Thank you for a great tour, guys at SinnerBikes! :)

For more fun videos featuring me and my adventures check out my YouTube Channel: Oksancia!

Let me know if you liked my video and if you want to see more like it in the future! :)

Colorful Summer Night Bracelet

Fabric: Colorful Summer Night from my Spoonflower fabric shop

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Kiddie Party Pennant

Fabrics: Swimming Children * Celebration Flags * Birthday Party * Houses Among Flowers  from my Spoonflower fabric shop

I hope I’ll have a chance to come up with more designs for you soon…

Check out my previous handmade creations with my fabrics!

Do you like these?

Video: Original Paintings And Announcements

For more fun videos featuring me and my adventures check out my YouTube Channel: Oksancia!

Like Rondy? Check out my Rondy Flickr gallery where all of his adventures are collected! If one of my original Rondy the Elephant acrylic paintings on paper or stretched canvas speaks to you, just email me at mail[at]oksancia.com stating the name of the painting and I will get back to you with details :)

You can also purchase the archival prints and cards of these paintings on my Etsy shop, but be quick!

It will be closing down on Tuesday, November 7 2011 for a couple of months break while we are moving to California.

Rondy and I would be happy to hear from you! :)

We liked the idea of monkeys walking around people, staring at them, playing or just minding their own monkey business. We enjoyed the most the kingdom of little squirrel monkeys and they, apparently, enjoyed something we had – our tripod! :D

Little Squirrel Monkey. Photos by Alex.

One of the monkeys looked so cute playing with his tail that Alex and I decided to record a movie featuring that little guy (or girl) on our camera. We were glad that we had our tripod with us. The monkey did not pay any attention to us preparing our camera, but the moment tripod’s legs touched the ground the monkey became VERY interested. Alex attached our Nikon camera to the tripod and looked away for a second. When he looked back the adventurous monkey was already climbing up on the tripod! Another second passes and there they come – three other monkeys started climbing following their brave leader, while we were trying to figure out what to do with the first one. He was already sitting on our camera’s screen and chewing on … a sticky paper tape that was attached to our tripod! I guess it has a tasty smell for these monkeys :)

Monkeys having an unexpected snack of sticky tape on our tripod :)

Other zoo visitors gathered around us and started taking photos of the monkeys and us. Finally Alex managed to carefully take the first monkey off the tripod, it produced a sharp sound and the rest of the monkeys who were sitting on our tripod just vanished in the nearby bushes. That was quite an adventure! :D

After we came home I remembered that I had a vector illustration I made a while ago with playing monkeys:

The monkeys from my illustration reminded me the curious ones from Apenheul so that I decided to feature them on a seamless pattern as well :)

Have a fun playful day! :)

The plan is to visit a couple of countries before we settle down in our new home. Because of this I decided to close my 2 Etsy shops for a while. Rondy the Elephant is going to rest a bit :)

You have still a chance to purchase prints and art jewelry from my Rondy the Elephant shop:

And there are  fun things on my second shop Optimistic Art too:

I will put the shop on vacation mode on Monday, November 7 2011.

Have a great week! :)