Blog Archives - Shannon Christensen • Artist & Creativity Author

Shannon Christensen • Artist & Creativity Author

Art Inspiration for #GTS on this morning's walk. So many shapes sizes and colors in nature. How can we not be inspired!

7/29/2016

When you're daughter @folkandco shows her Robin's egg find and you have to color match it for reference. And of course she has watercolors to do that. And yes I spelled Robin wrong in the photo.

7/28/2016

Walking this morning. Sometimes I feel like I live in Pride and Prejudice. Minus the fences.

7/28/2016

Anatomy of design. Starting out. Another S

7/20/2016

I like this initial

7/20/2016

Pushing the letter S. Alphabet fun.

7/20/2016

Ideas & inspiration. It all starts there. Then I go here to the sketchbooks. Ideas underway

7/18/2016

Rejection. In the creative world it happens all. the. time. Usually I'm the one getting rejected. But not this time. I'm rejecting this sample. It's pencil on fabric and turned out nothing like I wanted. So be gone reject.

7/14/2016

Almost 9 years here and I still love this yard. Grateful.

7/13/2016

Sneak peak for You. "Full Bloom" wrapping paper in grey. It's for more than just wrapping. See what we do with it. Available in the shop soon.

7/11/2016

You people are creative! And awesome. 47 names to choose from. Thanks for playing along with me. And Thanks Donna for "Full Bloom" it fits perfectly. The other name was a variant I chose from several of you. Dancing and falling was mentioned several time

7/9/2016

Here's another little pattern that needs a name. What's your idea?

7/8/2016

I need a name! Not personally but for this fabric. So I thought I'd ask the insta-tribe. This is one of the fabrics in my Bed of Roses Collection. What would you name it? I'll post a few others.

7/8/2016