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Spoonflower contest - Tiki

Sun, 30 May 2010 19:33:07 -0000

I'm participating again in Spoonflower's fabric design contest. It's the 4th time so far. This week's theme is "tiki". Tikis are stone or wood totems carved by the Polynesians. And the tiki culture developed itself a lot in the past decades, on the extended theme of Tahiti, Polynesia, Hawaii, islands, tropics, pirates etc. The central point of the tiki culture remains the tiki bar of course. :-) So instead of drawing totems, I decided to draw parrots from Hawaii standing on a Plumeria tree. The plumeria flower is so beautiful! It is often found on Hawaiian patterns, along with hibiscus flowers. If you like my parrots and plumeria pattern, please vote for it!

Jump Rope

Fri, 28 May 2010 09:52:38 -0000

Summer is almost there, the sun is shining outside, it's time to go play outside in parks or at school during recess! Here is a coloring page of a girl playing with a skipping rope (or jump rope or jumping rope if you live in the USA). It seems that the jump rope originated in Egypt or China, but I couldn't find a well documented confirmation. When, where and who invented the jumping rope?

Louis XIV of France - Hyacinthe Rigaud

Fri, 28 May 2010 09:26:35 -0000

This portrait of Louis XIV of France (also known as the Sun King) was painted by the painter Hyacinthe Rigaud in 1701. The greatest of all kings is featured with a long curly wig and clothed with a somptuous coronation costume and all the attributes of royalty and power: the sword of Charlemagne, the royal crown, and a scepter. This painting is now in the collection of the Louvres museum in Paris.

Mom's Flower

Thu, 20 May 2010 20:48:49 -0000

I perused many flowers catalogues to see if by any chance I could find a flower looking like the one I drew for Spoonflower's Fifties contest. The one that was the closest is the the osteospermum "Pink Whirls", a kind of daisy from Africa. But it wasn't close enough, so we decided to invent a name for this flower that we invented. And since Mother's Day is almost there (in France, Mother's Day is on a different day in almost all countries !), we opted for "Mom's Flower". A pretty name for this flower that has two sets of petals and a very nice heart in the middle. Color it, print it, cut it, and put it everywhere! :-)

Spoonflower contest - Fifties

Thu, 20 May 2010 19:18:24 -0000

I'm participating again in Spoonflower's fabric design contest. This week's theme is "Fifties", with a limited palette of 5 colors representative of fabrics from the fifties. I drew large flowers that I called "Poppies", but maybe you know another flower that would be more appropriate? I'm not an expert in flowers and I didn't use a model to design the pattern, I found it by playing a bit randomly with Inkscape, a cool open source vector drawing software.

There are 117 designs entered in the contest, many of them very well thought and done. Have a look on the contest page, and if you like my large flowers, please vote for them!

Cocktail

Thu, 20 May 2010 16:44:17 -0000

I drew a few cocktail glasses for last week's contest on Spoonflower (cocktail theme). Here is a 3D martini glass with a lemon slice (or lime or orange, your choice of colors as usual!) and a decorative paper umbrella that you can color with patterns. Then serve yourself a nice gradient of pineapple or orange juice with some strawberry puree or berry syrup! Cheers!

Shrimp Salad

Thu, 20 May 2010 12:34:43 -0000

I added a shrimp tail (or prawn tail, depending on where you live) to my mixed vegetables salad in order to create an illustration for a new cooking recipes site, Recettes de Crevettes (in French). Kids and grown-ups alike can color the salad ingredients. You might remark that one single shrimp might not be enough for a shrimps salad. The solution is of course to print your colored drawing several times! :-) You can then turn this coloring page into a cooking and serving game. Print the page, cut the slices of tomato, cucumber, egg and red onion, and you just created a cooking playset! :-)

Flower Sewing Buttons for Scrapbooking and Crafts

Wed, 19 May 2010 17:25:36 -0000

If you liked the round buttons with four holes, you will certainly love those flower buttons with two holes. Those sewing buttons have two colors, one for the petals and one for the heart. Once the buttons are colored, you can print them, cut them and "sew" them on your cards and scrapbooking pages. With two holes, it's easier to actually sew them and make a knot with a thread on top of them. I hope you'll like those buttons. If you use them for one of your crafts projects, please let us know!

Young Indian Woman

Tue, 11 May 2010 21:46:24 -0000

Juliana has made this very beautiful drawing of the face of a young Indian woman. I love her eyes! Juliana is a Brazilian artist who has published other very beautiful coloring pages on ScrapColoring. You can find them all here: coloring pages from Juliana Ducl�s. Thanks a lot Juliana!

Maricota

Tue, 11 May 2010 21:41:26 -0000

The Brazilian artist Juliana Ducl�s sent me a drawing of a Dona Maricota. It is a giant doll created for a street theater and dance festival called "Boi-de-mam�o" which is organized every year in Florian�polis in the state of Santa Catarina in Brazil. Thanks a lot Juliana!

Damask Pattern

Mon, 10 May 2010 18:42:04 -0000

I created a flowered damask pattern to add to ScrapColoring's collection of 40+ patterns. Damask patterns are very fashionable nowadays (or so I'm being told). Damask fabrics are reversible: the silk threads are weaved on both side of the canvas, and you can see the "negative" of the pattern on the back of the fabric. It's just as easy to get the negative pattern on ScrapColoring: just click on the double arrow icon to switch the colors. The name of the pattern comes from the city of Damascus in Syria where this type of weaving originates from.

The baroque motif I drew is largely inspired not from a fabric but from tiles painted with gouache paint in France around 1800. You can find similar patterns on most "Damask" patterns printed today. Do you like this pattern? What do you think we could do with it?

Tshirts, mugs, mousepads and more with your colored images!

Sun, 09 May 2010 19:36:10 -0000

There is an exciting new feature on ScrapColoring! On top of being able to print and save your colored coloring pages, you can now choose to use them create tshirts, mugs, mouse pads, cutting boards, BBQ aprons, cork bottom coasters and many other clothing items and objects with your colored artwork! It's quick, easy and really fun!

Dahlias

Fri, 07 May 2010 21:15:18 -0000

Here is the coloring page version of the dahlia pattern. You can now select exactly the colors (or patterns!) you want for each petals group of every flower. The two color pattern was already quite nice (I think), the multicolor pattern is even nicer. More colors adds happiness to the pattern. The not yet colored version is also a seamless pattern: you can save the picture, and then use it repeated (you can use image edition software like Gimp or Photoshop to resize the pattern). Of course for the pattern to be seamless, you need to use the same colors for the flowers that overlap on the borders.

Spoonflower contest - Cocktails

Thu, 06 May 2010 22:30:11 -0000

The results of Spoonflower's fabric design contest for the "Musical instruments" theme have been posted. My maracas pattern is 18th out of 75th. Not bad for a first participation! Thanks a lot for voting! I hope to do even better this week with the "Cocktails" theme and this pattern with colorful martini glasses:

Dahlias Pattern

Wed, 05 May 2010 14:53:25 -0000

Here is a new pattern, drawn over the week-end between bits of gardening and playing in the sand. Large round dahlias flowers of various sizes with smaller flowers. I'm inspired by flowers currently! After tulips, dahlias, and I have already spotted very beautiful clusters of blue and white myosotis flowers in the garden. The myosotis will be perfect for a future pattern! The dahlias are the 40th pattern I have designed for ScrapColoring. And I have moved the Print and Save icons around in order to make room for at least 10 more. :-) As usual, if you have ideas for new patterns, just let me know

Fishing Submarine

Mon, 03 May 2010 19:28:56 -0000

Strange things happen under the sea! This bubbly submarine is gone fishing! It's trying to catch fish with a small net that he holds in his mechanical arm. While you color this submarine, you can learn new words: the periscope to watch the surface, the round portholes to peer under the sea, the propeller to make the submarine move, and the heavy keel that provides stability. What's the color of your submarine? Mine is yellow! "It's a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine". :-)