Sketch and Color… Part 1

Parisville is beginning to ship all over this fine planet of ours! Yay, let’s be excited! In the spirit of celebration I bring you another process post… This time just in pictures, like a silent film. Imagine me pantomiming the good parts: You can call me Buster Pinkton if you feel like it.

If me talking about me interests you then we may have a bunch in common, we should get together and go bowling or something. If this is entirely uninteresting to you then I respect your decision to join a different league. We will probably beat you though, I rock the bumper lanes and I love borrowed shoes.

I am open to names for our team if you have any…

34 Responses to “Sketch and Color… Part 1”

  1. Thanks for sharing your creative process. I loved it.

  2. Thank you so much for sharing your process with us – I love your images! Can’t wait to see the fabric in person!

  3. We have a bunch in common, but I’m not crazy about bowling. I’ll hang out though.

    I love looking at the build up of color. Reminds me of back in the day when I checked color proofs for printing. Each color on a clear piece of plastic. First cyan, then magenta, then yellow, then, wow, what the black added to the final product like your purple.

  4. I would SO be on your bowling team. Just sayin’.

  5. Parisville is amazing!! The artwork is just beautiful!!
    It has been a Parisville frenzy in my shop all week, fat quarter sets going like hotcakes :)

  6. I love your process posts! It’s so fun watch your artwork transform from a pencil sketch to a graphic file with the addition of all sorts of colors! I am a design student, so I am just in awe of this photos! I really appreciate that you shared them. I’ll join your team! I don’t bowl very often, but it sure is fun, especially with a pitcher of beer and some fried cheese curds.

  7. Very cool. And I’d totally be on your bowling team – though I have my own bowling name, Bowl-Lin, not to be confused with my sister Alison, Bowling-Ali. Yes, I am indeed that corny.

    ps – Just blogged about your awesome line which continues to just leap off our shelves. Nice to see you at Market!

    http://www.hawthornethreadsblog.com/2010/11/the-four-cs-of-parisville-a-gem-of-a-collection-from-tula-pink.html

  8. It was very nice to meet you at market & I’m loving the new line. Thanks so much for sharing the process, too. Very interesting.

  9. So how does the pencil sketch get into a graphic program? Does it scan in? You can see that would be the one on your bowling team barefoot with a tennis ball but cheering loudly!

  10. i heart you
    and i heart bowling
    i’d so love to be on a bowling team with you
    as for names… i’m not as creative in that department… although my dad’s bowling team named themselves “fubar” and i just love that!
    ;-)

  11. Mary Ann-
    It does get scanned in. Then a whole bunch of digital hoopla happens to change it into a different kind of file that I can work with. Extremely boring stuff that happens in a second or two.

  12. Ship Ahoy! love the new design! and your process too! and you should be talking about you, since this is your blog ~ I do like to bowl, tho I suck at it, it’s lots of fun doing it!

  13. Bowling with you would be a BLAST! I’m thinking you should just make up a new word for the team name though… Something funky, that sounds like MAYBE people should be afraid… but maybe not.

    ~ Meagan

  14. I already have all of Mist coming… can’t wait to make stuff :)

  15. Ok, I really want in on the bowling team, but you might have to put me in charge of snacks or something. I don’t want to drag everyone down with my crazy aim. ;-) Love these little insights into your process – thank you for sharing with us.

  16. I want to be on the Tula team. I love the process shots. I’m curious how you choose colors. Do you do color studies first, or just figure out what looks best as you go along? With so many different colors, it seems like it must be somewhat complex.

  17. I LOVE Parisville! I also love when you share the creative process. As for our bowling name, we would be “The Pink Ladies” of course.

  18. Rebecca-

    It’s not as complex as it seems. It’s really just four colors and then the shading of those colors. It ends up being a lot of individual shades but not very many actual colors. If that makes any sense at all to you then you should get a prize. There isn’t any short way to explain these things.

  19. This was so interesting. I have never had an art lesson. The process is neat. Bowling team? I have never bowled in my life, but like to watch and chat with everyone. I love your designs and have made totes and quilts with them. Team name — Tula Gals.

  20. I absolutely love the individual shots as each color is added. It really shows how each of the layers adds to the depth of the overall design.

    To be honest, I was so overwhelmed at Market I chickened out of introducing myself. If I had known you liked all this geeky stuff and borrowed shoes, I might not have been so shy.

  21. We received ours at the shop and it is fantastic!!! Love it!
    Nadine

  22. THANK YOU! I love hearing about anything about your design process. I’m not that artistically inclined but love how you broke down your steps to show exactly how much work goes into a single area of your prints. I’m not a great bowler but would happily keep score for the team :)

  23. I haven’t bowled in a while, but what I lack in skill I REaLLY make up for in effort.

    The important thing is, “What will we wear!” Gotta look good and all.

    The first name that popped into my head was “Parisville Sluggers” but that might work better for baseball or softball. Jes’ brainstorming here…. Then everyone could have a french nickname on their nametag. How fun!

  24. Oh Tula! You wanna go bowling… lets do it! I am a great bowler (learned from my dad who was trying to go pro in college) and together we could cream all the competition. I would rather bowl in your lovely plume shoes then those ugly borrowed ones though. And how about we call ourselves the PARISVILLE PUNKROCKERS! Everyone should sport a ship or bear hairdo and wear lots of pink! I just got the whole collection in the mail today. SWOON! I can’t wait to turn them into lovely aprons for my store. I am hoping to have the first ones on etsy, so I will be busy the next few days, but while cutting and sewing I’ll be dreaming of bowling with you!

  25. Bowling name: The Bumper Stickers. I am not able to bowl though, however I’d love to watch you draw, love when you show drawings as usual. I totally get what you mean with the colour- and shade talk, thanks for telling! I have to admit I hadn’t thought about it that way, I just saw it as many similar but still individual colours. Guess that’s what makes me the admirer and you the designer, I will however keep that info tucked away in my brain, it might come in handy some day. If I use it for inspiration some time I will think “Oh, now what was it Tula tought me about colours?” and you will recieve a fairytale-like *ping* from the universe and you can just lay back and feel pleased about yourself and know you’ve left a permanent mark in someones brain. Pretty cool huh?

  26. Team: Space Muppets.

  27. You must love Prince Poppycock!

  28. I love this -really like images 4&5 of the process too..
    It’s really interesting & inspiring to see your creative process here, thanks!!
    How long did it take??

    -I’d be on your bowling team any day, but I may drag down the average as I am pretty horrendous!! …maybe I could cheerlead ;)

  29. I am so down for the bowling team – and I usually request the bumped lanes – but they never want to let me use them since I am over 5 :( I think they just like watching me humiliate myself with a record 10 straight gutter balls….meanies. We could be the Pinkertons in honor of you being awesome enough to share your creative process! I am still loving being a TulaTroop either way though!

  30. I love, love, love your posts about how you design your fabric. I love seeing art go from a rough idea to a finished design. It’s so inspiring and now I want to go pull out my sketchpad…..

  31. Very kewl. Thank you for sharing. I’ve always wondered how this was done. Knowing that the shapes were drawn traditionally before being digitally illustrated is refreshing. I was beginning to think fabric designers were master illustrators. lol

  32. That is the most delightful print!

  33. Hello:

    Recently discovered your work, then browsed around to find this arresting post of yours. I feel like I just found $100 under the bed! I concur with the rest of your adoring fans: thanks for sharing your creative process. this is endlessly fascinating, and the print is GENIUS. thanks for opening a whole new world of thought.

    J

  34. Hello there, I just finished a mini quilt. I used mainly your Parisville Pomagranate line, and wow!! I concluded that if there is something I love about those fabrics is the color scheme, great job!! I’m a big fan now!!

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