Color On Cloth

Art Quilts and Fabric Designs by Jean Cheszek

Citrus Mod — A Wallpaper Design

Posted on May 23, 2013 by jean cheszek

This week’s Spoonflower design contest is to create a Mod wallpaper design, using only 3 colors (plus black or white optional). When I was a teen, I had one wall of my bedroom papered with an op art design (much like this one by Alberto Biasi), and though I’m not sure it fits in the Modernist Subculture, I decided to go with an op art inspiration for my design.

I started by creating a simple grid of circles. Then, using the Adobe Illustrator distort options, I played with different options.

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Snapshots from a Geek Convention

Posted on May 9, 2013 by jean cheszek

Spoonflower and Robert Kaufman Fabrics are sponsoring a fabric design contest with the theme being “Geek Chic”. As a chemical engineer in a previous life, I have a lot of practical experience with geeky things, so I had tons of design ideas to start with.

I thought I’d do something with chemical symbols, but I couldn’t come up with anything that seemed like an interesting design. I drew a number of geeky accoutrements, including the ties, test tube, sneaker and glasses below.