Summer School with Lilla Rogers - Weak Too

For Make Art That Sells this week, we designed plates for all of the great stores I like to shop at like Crate&Barrel & Anthropologie. Topic? Plants.

From my photo library I found this interesting ground cover.

I tried pencil. 

Then ink.

A photo of a cut tree stump from downtown that i posterized in photoshop:

From that, I got this:

Not really me. And no, I'd never buy that. So I moved on to creepier plants.

Close, but it still didn't wasn't quite me...and those pattern plates looked like something I'd seen at Target before.

Then I had an AH HA moment. I wanted to create work that that makes you smile.

I turned around in my living room and saw the pictures that i did a LONG TIME AGO hanging over my couch. How would that look on a plate?

I needed to capture that. So I started over AGAIN! 

BOLDER. BETTER LINES:

From that I got this:

I modified the palette to a taupe (thistles are purple) and turned this in as my final.

Think I like the black better.