Chintzy Rococo three ways added to my Spoonflower shop

My entry into this week's Spoonflower challenge for

"Chintz Revival"

The brief was for an updated Chintz pattern - Chintz is a brightly coloured flowing floral pattern which originated in15th Century India and has since been interpreted many times and in many ways....so here is my homage and own interpretation comprising an abstracted cheerful Rococo style floral floating over a muted woodland ground - always adding my maximalist touch in the layering of patterns and as ever all motifs and patterns were originally hand painted in watercolours on paper before scanning and formatting in Photoshop ready for digital printing

I love how strikingly different the design looks on black and white grounds - changes the entire feeling of the patterns

From Wikipedia: "The term "chintzy" is also attributed to novelist George Elliot (a great favourite of mine - I just finished reading The Mill on the Floss for the third time) who in 1851 wrote about muslin fabric to her sister, saying: "The quality of the spotted one is best, but the effect is chintzy. This is believed to have been said about cheap British imitations of real chintz, which became common at the time." 

I do hope my isn't seen in that derogatory light she said, with a wry wink, as the comment was likely more about the quality of the material itself - but it is a good word for overly ornate or cheesy things too! 

Here's the LINK to all three patterns in my Spoonflower shop and if you'd like your fabric/wallpaper printed in the UK please DM for a link

Thank you People of Print for this wonderful article!

 People of Print are correct - I did not set out to develop a unique style.

“Developing a unique style has been a happenstance exploration and not a goal,”

HERE IS THE DIRECT LINK to read this article as the type is probably too small because these images are from my Instagram post.

And this is a poster I designed for a call out from People of Print to hail that Print indeed is not Dead - as a surface pattern designer whose work is almost entirely  digitally printed on so many variety of actual in real life items I am shouting out this anthem far and wide. 

As ALWAYS all aspects of this layout were originally hand painted in watercolours on paper before being formatted in Photoshop ready for digital printing

If you want to check out People of Print click HERE

THANKS FOR READING - HUGS P XXX