Weekly WrapUp Poetry and Patterns

Welcome

On most Wednesdays, check this blog for a strategy, process, or reflection for illustration with the iPad app ProCreate or Affinity Designer. This week, in fact this month, will be short on art and filled with poetry; I’ve got one pattern I’m working on for a challenge.

The Pattern

Spoonflower has a new challenge, Hothouse Florals— tropical and bright florals. I enjoyed a class by Maja Faber on Skillshare on making Indian floral patterns from scratch. This is the design I created for the challenge from the class. Here’s my project link to Skillshare, which will give you a link to the class.

As I looked at my pattern, I noticed an obvious repeat — a long L shape that I needed to revise. On the left at the bottom of the image below, I show the horizontal line of an L. If you look above that at the pattern, you’ll see what I mean.

On the right side is my revised area squared in to take care of the issue. Now I notice another dangling purple vine, which I plan on revising. The process that Maja shares in her Skillshare makes it so easy to make revisions without having to mess around too much and worry about too much “moving around.”

Below the error image is the current collection of green or pink backgrounds, before my final revision.

Poetry

April is National Poetry Month — its 30th anniversary! This month has inspired me for years — I have written 30 poems in the 30 days of April since 2013. Most of these are listed in the Archives for each April on my See-Frame-Focus blog. Two years, 2019 and 2020 are on my Ask What Else blog. Besides National Poetry Month, NaPoWriMo provided ideas and prompts for writing poetry. Most of the time: I simply wrote poetry. On my education blog, What Else, I often included my own writing strategies and suggestions to help students and teachers when writing for October’s WriteOut, including poetry, rather than for NaPoWriMo. NaPoWriMo is the National Poetry Writing Month part of poetry month. Check it out and start writing your own!

So, much of time is spent writing, revising, and researching as I gather ideas, consider a format, free write, draft, and revise that I don’t spend much time on my art. But I do love writing just as much as I love the art making.

Here are the poems I’ve written so far this April: NaNoWriMo 2026 blog posts and in my Flickr album, embedded here:

Thanks for stopping by!

Make some art to spread some joy! Try a Spoonflower Design Challenge. I try to complete a design for each one. If you do, share it on this document with other artist friends and we’ll vote for you too! It’s something my friends and I collaborate on. See what you come up with and share.

Perhaps try writing some poetry– On my education blog, I’ve some Writing Tips and Writing Strategies that might help you get started. Poetry is emotional, descriptive, subtle expressions of your own world; give it a try. Here’s a post I wrote about writing poetry that might inspire you.

You can find many helpful artists teachers, including the ones mentions in this post, on my Artist Resources  page. Take a look at their IG and YouTube. Find one that fits your learning and art preferences and stick with them a while to develop your skills. If you have any questions, just ask!

You’re welcome to follow this blog for art inspiration. We can share with #warmup4art to enjoy our work together! I look forward to your sharing and find me at @42Sheri, on Mastodon Sheri42, on Flickr teach.eagle Sheri 42. And, I’m so thankful you’ve been joining me with art this year! Take care!