Wild Honey

SURFACE DESIGN

In late winter, all thoughts were focused on the coming of Spring, which led to thoughts of bees, birds, and warm weather. Well, eventually warm weather.

Most of my flowers are loosely based on real flowers and then take on a look of their own as I draw them, so these buds are not true spring participants. Spring pastels, honey bees (which are not black in nature, but they are here) and a honeycomb populate this collection, although there are patterns with only flowers. While snow crocus are not included, I did include some wooden lattice because it is against the lattice that we often spot the crocus blooms in February or early March, during what we call “false spring”. False spring is that tease of spring weather that we know better than to believe, but I digress.

This collection is mostly soft pastels, but also has quite a few prints with a deep purple background for overall contrast without repeating designs in close proximity.

My larger collections can be divided into smaller collections in different colorways, but they all coordinate so that different looks and moods can be created. In the case of Wild Honey, one can lean into green, pink, orchid, or yellow. Or not, or mix it up. That just makes more sense to me, but I’m open to edits. Scale is whatever you want it to be, be it according to repeat size or motif size. Plus, the entire Wild Honey collection is clean, simple, vector art.

There’s one more illustration available, similar to the top one shown here. It’s a smaller, simpler little garden with some lattice behind it. See it on the Decorative Floral Illustrations page in the Illustration.

This collection is available for licensing on fabric, stationery, kitchen linens, and more.