The author shares their love for lavender while detailing their artistic process, exploring colors and brushes in a September 2025 art challenge to create an autumn landscape.
Category: Floral Delights
Trailing Petunias
Delores Naskrents' Affinity Designer MasterClass teaches how to use symbols and templates for floral designs, like this Petunias pattern and palette.
Watercolor Mandala
I painted a watercolor mandala for my friend's birthday, celebrating with lunch and gifts.
Wednesday WrapUp Affinity Variations
insights from a series of classes in Delores Naskrent's Affinity Designer MasterClass. vector drawing techniques, scatter pattern creation, and layering transparencies. Each lesson offers practical strategies for enhancing design skills, appealing to artists seeking to explore and refine their art using Affinity Designer tools.
Transparent Layers
Delores Naskrents' Affinity Designer MasterClass to learn techniques for creating transparency and textures in designs, experimenting with colors and blend modes for quilting patterns.
Half Drop Frilly Pinks and Dragonflies
Delores Naskrents' Affinity Designer MasterClass; scatter templates for unique patterns; experiment with motifs, colors, and simplifying design processes through synced symbols and templates.
Wednesday WrapUp July 30 25
ongoing lessons in Affinity Designer, focusing on vector and pixel tools with insights on creating reflective patterns using templates, such as the Single Reflective Half Drop. Additionally, they're developing a calendar project in Procreate, emphasizing the importance of planning in design.
Reflective Patterns Far Out or Subtle
Delores Naskrents' Affinity Designer MasterClass, highlights this week's symmetrical designs using reflective templates.
Splash Grid Calendar
creating a "Splash Grid Art" calendar, inspired by Liz Kohler Brown's Create a Calendar Bootcamp. Splash Grid art combines grids with vibrant colors and positive messages. The author is documenting the process and utilizing Printful templates for design. The project aims to spread joy and creativity.
Wednesday Wrap Up More Affinity
strategies and reflections on using Affinity Designer. It discusses learning tools in Affinity Designer, including the Pixel Persona for adding textures to vector patterns. It highlights creating reflective templates for designs like butterflies and folk art patterns, while also showcasing reusable motifs.
I wonder, if I draw a line... 