Tiles

I'm sure you'll all be very happy to know that I made it out of my rut alive and well. I had to do some serious Instagramming, Pinteresting and sleeping (probably too much of sleeping) but I came across something that helped me spark up a new idea!

I am a massive fan of Print Fresh, a textile design company based in Philadelphia, and I'm not afraid to admit that I am probably slightly obsessed with their work at the minute (you can see there Instagram account here) and they posted something that really helped me along. They work with current trends in mind as you would expect and had posted some small paintings of pretty tiles with the hashtag 'ss17'

I then began working in a tile format, but still very much inspired by Indian design ideas.

I then put these first few paintings into Photoshop and spent an hour or so coming up with some quick ideas. 

Below, you can see a few of my ideas, just experimenting and seeing what works. The outer two designs I have to say I do not like, they're far too busy and just don't really flow - however, I think it's nice to see how putting a design into a half-drop repeat instead of just repeating it normally can give it a very different feel. This is going to sound silly, but it makes it look less, well... repetitive?

This was my happy accident (below)

I took the little square and mirrored it to create the full flower-like tile. After the putting this into a repeat, I saved it and then - I'm not even sure what I did, I must have knocked my mouse or something - because the design on the layer beneath that I had hidden appeared. 

IT MADE IT PRETTY

The white was a little over powering now that I can look between then two, thank goodness for that little slip of the cursor because it improved this quick little design massively!