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big c little a skip to main skip to sidebar big c little a thursday april 9 2009 spring themed plush here are my spring inspired pieces they were pretty last minute ideas i designed and created liam o brien on st patrick s day so not quite as elaborate as feb s challenge but still keeping in mind leo s ideas about color making sure that it reflects reinforces the nature of the idea without overwhelming it or taking away from the overall aesthetic posted by leeanna butcher at 3 00 pm 2 comments monday march 23 2009 st valentine better late than never right posted by terrell gentry at 12 11 am 1 comment thursday march 12 2009 spring what theme shall we do now that it s almost spring how about spring maybe give ourselves until the end of april posted by jeff harter at 6 25 am 1 comment tuesday february 24 2009 the king and queen of hearts here s my february post i ve always wanted to do my own version of the king and queen of hearts and here was the perfect opportunity all the details took me longer than i thought if you want to see more pics head on over to my blog or flickr update so john quinn asked a great question in the comments for this post that i will try to answer here he noted that he d like to read more about the design decisions we make for these posts based on leo s teachings excellent idea don t know why we didn t do it before ok so here goes with my thought process based on what i learned from leo monahan whenever i approach a design i always ask myself the same things are there enough variety size of shapes is there a point of interest are all my colors textures integrated well if there is line work is there variety of thick and thin is the spacing of the elements interesting is it interesting overall to look at and how well does it solve the design question in the case of these plush i wanted to make sure that each plush was an interesting overall shape and that there were obvious as well as subtle heart references throughout the pieces for both king and queen i used a fabric that had a million tiny pink hearts printed all over it for their skin in the case of the king i made his mustache curl into subtly warped heart shapes and used a heart shape within his belt buckle with the queen her hair makes a heart shape on each side her nose is a heart shape etc there was also the royalty aspect of this project that had to come across as well i used a rich red velvet for their robes and gold trim to reinforce the idea of wealth status i new from day one that the queen needed a ruffled collar a nod at elizabethan times i also wanted to incorporate the color purple symbolic for royalty without taking away from the red palette i used a purple shade for the queen s eyes and a lighter one for the king s nose another aspect of leo s teachings and the one that pops into my head whenever i get to figuring out color is the squint test if i squint my eyes and the color disappears into the other colors usually not what i m going for then i need to keep working on it until it doesn t i also try to remember not to keep things even everywhere which is why the queen has 1 heart on one side of her robe and 2 on the other and her arms are in different positions as for the king if you notice he has more shirt space on the left side of his robe than on the right and has 2 different heart buttons and his ears aren t in exactly the same place i also felt that i needed to balance the white hearts on the robes so they didn t just distract the eye with white accents elsewhere their collars and white in the queen s crown brighter red accents in the king s crown to incorporate the robe color hope that gives you a better idea john d posted by leeanna butcher at 11 52 am 5 comments saturday february 14 2009 happy valentines day posted by jeff harter at 9 33 pm 2 comments wednesday january 28 2009 february s theme is valentine so i want to see some great work from you all the deadline is as usual the last day of february by midnight since it s not a leap year that means the 28th for all you procrastinators out there we have a little extra time for this one so get cracking i got this image from the taschen book valentines vintage holiday graphics it s full of these old school valentines hopefully it ll get the creative juices flowing i look forward to seeing everybody s ideas posted by leeanna butcher at 3 46 pm no comments monday january 26 2009 valentines what say ye all for our next theme come on i want to make a calendar posted by jeff harter at 10 00 pm 1 comment older posts home subscribe to posts atom what this is all about a collection of new projects continuing on leo monahan s design class assignments from 1994 1997 blog archive 2009 8 april 1 spring themed plush march 2 february 2 january 3 2008 12 december 2 november 4 october 3 september 3 artist s links brian larsen jeff harter jesse jordan ken pak leeanna butcher miran kim terrell gentry