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?

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:
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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

I'm done turning my tulip coloring page into a tulip pattern. You can now plant fields of blossoming tulips of all colors on all the coloring pages of ScrapColoring. I'm hoping this tulips pattern will also be popular in the pattern creation tool. You can choose the background color, and the flower color. Leaves will stay green. The tulip drawing is simple, and I just planted them in a quincunx dot pattern (putting it more simply: like the number five on a dice). I just switched the colors of the petals. Sometimes the simplest things work best! I'm quite fond of the result, but it may just be a symptom of my tulipomania. :-)

My wife and kids have drawn lots of curly lines on their April's fishes. I very much liked the effect and turned the curls in a new pattern for ScrapColoring. It's a very simple pattern, but I'm quite...→ more
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