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  • Now selling with Shutter/Speed

    I'm happy to announce that my artwork can now be found on a new Print on Demand platform! It's now selling with Shutter/Speed which is the new kid on the block when it comes to art prints selling. The contacted me a few weeks back asking if I was interested in selling with them and I agreed. Their only focus at the moment is art prints and photography prints which is pretty awesome if you ask me because it's one place that makes it easy for me to upload to. I don't have to worry about creating multiple files format of the same work and know that anything that was intended as a stand alone illustration can be uploaded there and grab some eyeballs. Them being new to the PoD scene also means the platform is not yet saturated and I get to be found a lot more easily in their internal searches, meaning my work can reach more potential buyer on their website. I started by uploading my Art Deco ladies series, and the mint and pink flatlay illustrations you see in this year's printable calendar, because they are the ones that are probably the most on brand with my signature style at the moment, but as we go, I'll be uploading more and more of the work. Go have a look at my shop already!

  • The new preppy Definition

    Preppy! That word is probably going to evoke visions of Lacoste polo t-shirt, plaid skirts and smart knitted sweaters and vests to anybody who grew up in the 80s and 90s. But did you know that the new preppy definition is anything but all that? The Gen Z has redefined the aesthetic in many ways and what's more, the preppy trend is a thing these days. I first came to know about it a few months back when Redbubble sent a newsletter to all their premium / pro tiers about trending keywords for which they needed more designs to show up in searches. Preppy was one of them. So I did the smart thing back then : Googled it. Why? Because I had an inkling of intuition that told me that what I defined as preppy was probably not what was trending nowadays. having a teenager helps a lot on staying current with terms too. And boy was I right to Google it! Preppy in its new definition is anything girly and pink and cute according to Gen Z. A far cry from all the 90s girls in my school who were sporting polo t-shirts in pastel tones and wearing plaid skirts or well cut jeans. I had the privilege (or misfortune) to be assigned to a middle school that was also catering to the super posh suburbs in my town, the class divide was very clear in who lived where based on outfits. Middle class burbs kid were embracing the 90s grunge trend, the posh gang was all clad in well cut clothes, and came winter, this whole lot seemed to be dressed in Togs Unlimited puff jackets by Chevignon (I kid you not it bordered on preppy uniform) and girls were carrying their books in an Hervé Chapelier tote bag, while the rest of us made do with backpacks. The whole aesthetic back then was also quite muted when it came to color palettes, it was a fest of beige, pastel pinks and blue, navy blue, forest green and earth tones. It was like the preppy gang of yore was allergic to bright colors. The new preppy girl by contrast is now a girl who wears pink a lot, or other cheerful bright (or pastel) and prefer girly clothes and accessories, which seems to also include a pink Stanley Cup. The aesthetic is cheerful, fun, high in colors, full of girly girl stuff like hearts, bows and fun coastal elements. This is throwing lot of Millennial and Gen X designers off as I found out in the super recent (still ongoing actually) Spoonflower Preppy wallpaper design challenge. Which version of preppy is the correct one? Personally I think it's a lot safer to go with the new preppy definition. The Gen Z is the new generation entering the work force with the oldest members of that cohort entering their 30s and the youngest like my daughter being well into their teenage years and soon to be in college. The Gen Z is the generation getting their adult independence and getting the purchasing power to boot. I think it's worth listening to what they like and how they define the world, especially if you are in the design and aesthetic business. It doesn't mean that what we called preppy as their age is gone, far from it, it just got relabelled too. The dainty florals, pastels, plaids and beigey - navy blues of the 90s is now part of what is being called the "Grandmillennial style" or as my daughter said when it comes to fashion : 90s vintage style. Grandmillennial is used more to define home decor, and if you grew up in the 90s you might recognise it as the kind of decor your wealthier friends might have going in their parent's home or in their Laura Ashley florals inspired bedrooms. It was basically preppy but for homes. I actually like seeing that trend coming back under that name, especially after years of boring minimalism that went into rather extremes with white, black and grey everything. The versy same way I like what the Gen Z defines as preppy today. Anything to kill the sterile minimalism is good in my book. What's your take on it all?

  • July 2024 printable calendar page

    The summer hopefully kicked in for several of you guys, even though it seems to be playing hide and seek in Europe. When I drew this illustration last year, I thought of summer vacations and gave it a beach theme knowing it would go on illustrating the July 2024 printable calendar page. Printable page which is now up for download in the freebie zone . I just came back from an almost week long vacation to Goa where I celebrated my birthday. I did get some beach vibes even though the monsoon has properly kicked in on the west coast in India and I brought back half the seashells found at our hotel beach to decorate my place. Now it's time to get back to work and get creating new designs ahead of the festive season and winter...yes! WINTER. I already uploaded a few Halloween themed patterns on Spoonflower , and the first Christmas one for the season, with more to come as I let the rain put me in an autumn kind of mood. If you are a designer, here is what you should be doing in July : - Promote : Summer themed designs, especially on PoD like Society6 and Redbubble because people are still in the mood to buy them now (less on Spoonflower where people are buying fabric for autumn and Christmas projects). You should start promoting a few more generic and geometric designs with fall colors as well because people are going to start shopping for back to school. College students are also likely to plan decorating their dorm, so anything Gen Z is into is worth promoting. -Upload : Halloween and autumn/fall designs! People are starting to plan ahead, especially crafters and sewing enthusiasts who buy fabric by the yard. You can also start uploading Christmas designs as people tend to shop early for the holidays not the be caught off guard at the last minute. -Design : Christmas and winter themed illustrations should be your focus right now, along with fall designs you can whip up quickly outside of a collection, or as add ons to an existing collection. I personally find it a lot easier to design for the festive season ahead when the monsoon kicked in, it's hard to draw Christmas stuff and pumpkins when it's 35+ degrees celsius outside and the sun is out to roast you alive in your flip flops. I tend to work quickly on designs, so I can afford myself that luxury of starting late in the season. But if you are a type A overthinking machine, this might be better to start earlier and focus on winter and Valentine's day in July. In other news, there are a few more designs of mine that made it to my Deny Designs gallery , so if you are a wholesale business, you might want to check them out.

  • Social Media and the AI threat

    Unless you've been of the grid, chances are you heard about social media and the AI threat it poses to artists in the past few weeks. Heck if you are a creative and artist yourself, you probably have at least reconsidered what you share on Instagram, or made a move to Cara ( or have been wondering if it is worth migrating). For many of us artists, the AI threat is getting more real and is starting to strike a little too close to home, forcing us to reconsider several things, including our marketing strategy which quite frankly was already an ordeal thanks to Instagram's ever changing algorithm. So what is the new social media threat? I'm glad you asked! Meta, the group that englobes Facebook, Instagram and Threads has announced that they will use content posted publicly by users on their platforms to train their AI model and in most countries will do so WITHOUT your consent, or even allowing you to opt out. As I type this, the only users who can opt out of having their words and images used are those living in the European Union, and even then, they are made to jump through hoops to get that one basic copyright honored. Living in India, I don't even have the option to opt out or anything, Meta can and probably is using all the content I have been posting on Instagram to train their AI model. It's something that as an artist I find HUGELY problematic, like many artists do. Why? Because this means it can give birth to an AI image generator that can create images in your style that anyone will use as their own, with the original artist not being compensated for having their work used to train said AI in the first place. The rise of AI "art" (don't be fooled it's not art) has been concerning for a year and a half or so and has already pushed several PoD platforms to act on it and enforce fees on artists in an effort to keep the bogus "AI artists" off their platforms. A federal court in the US has ruled that AI art cannot be copyrighted and nobody can claim ownership of a work generated by an AI because copyrights is a privilege only a human creator can enjoy, not a machine. The EU has drafted the first set of laws to regulate the use of AI in what is called the AI act which is why Meta has been forced to comply and offer EU users an "opt out" option. At this point, we quite frankly need worldwide regulations for AI and its applications, INCLUDING images generated by an AI and how AI is trained. Unfortunately, it seems people don't quite understand the urgency, or what the big deal is, because they still don't really understand art as a CAREER. How many of us artists have been told "Get a real job" like spending hours to create illustrations and elements that can be printed as a pattern isn't a job but a fun hobby? How many still believe the starving artist myth is a reality that artist must content themselves with? How many of you reading this post have had dreams of being in a creative field as a child but where pushed by your parents toward a more "sensible" career choice? How many of you purchase items with designs printed on them without thinking about the work that went into creating that design or wether or not the artists/designer got paid? The sad sad truth is that there is very little awareness about what it is that artists do. People are still stuck with this romantic idea of an artist painting flowers and landscapes on a canvas with oil painting and trying to make ends meet selling their paintings for food and never really get much recognition if any while we are alive...thank Van Gogh for that! The truth is that artists are part of a huge career field and you'd be hard pressed to find anything in your daily life that hasn't had an artist or designer involved in the process. All your tech gadgets were first designed by a concept artist and then a tech team went on trying to make it happen. There isn't a movie out there that hasn't a team dedicated to CGI special effects and animation artists. But did you know that there also are artists working behind the scene on elements you will never directly see in the movie? Like storyboard artists? And all the work of concept artists and costume designers who worked months on ideas for props, sets and costumes? We artists are everywhere and the job we do mean your home and life are a little bit less boring, you could be drinking out of a boring white coffee mug and it would still hold your coffee just fine. Drinking your morning cup out of a cute mug with fun colors and a sassy quote is something that should come as a bonus, it's a privilege you should pay for. So! Where does that left us? How do we go about the future? As an artist I am for one really rethinking my marketing strategy and what I share on Facebook and Instagram. I've noticed in the past few months that posts like flat illustration or pattern swatches get more reach than product mockups and finished products like that water bottle on the left. It's clear that Instagram was trying to incentivise me to post more content they can really use to train the Meta AI. Knowing what I know now, I decided to stop posting too clearly usable images on Insta and focus on product mockups and behind the scene snapshots of my life as an artist. Some artists have been using the softwares Glaze and Nightshade to render their images unusable by AI models. I tried making Glaze work but it kept crashing. I decided to reserve the art content for Cara where they aren't training an AI model with it and for my Patreons. I have been posting a lot more content that is free to read if you sign up as a free member and a few more public posts (viewable by all).I know some artists who've been working on growing their email lists, and quite frankly it's something I have always been struggling with. I'm also not really good at writing newsletters and I know half of the ones I subscribed to has gone unread. I'm more a fan of interaction with my followers which was what was great with Instagram before they decided to only show my posts to 10-15 of them.So I'm hoping we can get that sense of community back on Patreon somehow. One thing has become clear, the AI threat is real and if people don't start questioning it and asking for regulations we are going to end up with a completely out of control tools. The SAG - AFTRA strike last year was just the beginning. People, we artists need you! Believe in us, support us, say no to AI "art" (again it's not art), spread the word, help us advocate.

  • June 2024 printable calendar page

    We've officially made it to the 6th month of 2024 people! It's now half time. We are as far from its beginning as we are from it's end. This means the June 2024 printable calendar page is up for grab in the freebie zone and time to get ready to plan yet another month. I'm looking forward to this month of June for several reasons : It's my birth month and I have no problem getting older, 45 trips around the suns and more fun with each rounds. The monsoon is coming soon, June is the month we see the monsoon make a comeback in Mumbai and when you've been suffocating in steaming heat for 4 months you dream of nothing but rain and cooler days My mom is coming over for my birthday and we are planning a trip. I'm happy to have May behind us, this year has been pretty BRUTAL on the climate front and the last two weeks of the month have been downright debilitating thanks to off the charts heat and humidity. So much so I spent the past week in bed with a giant viral cold because my poor body just needs a break from this insanity. But all not was lost and I have a few achievements under the belt. First I joined Symplico, an India based fabric printing company, you can read all about it in this blog post. I ordered some of my fabric and it's with a tailor as I type this and will be turned into a top in less than 2 weeks (another thing to look forward to in June!). I also created a brand new, fun collection called Cactus Fiesta (detailed blog post coming soon). So if you are a designer, what should you be paying attention to in June? You should be promoting summer designs on social media, because people buying on PoD like Society6 and Redbubble are still going to be interested in purchasing all the tropical, beachy and summery designs you created and uploaded over the past few months. You should be uploading fall and Halloween themed designs, and start uploading a few Christmas designs too. ESPECIALLY on fabric printing websites like Spoonflower, because crafters, quilters and seamstresses are all stocking up on these in the Summer to be ready to create festive projects. Remember that for a lot of Fabric PoD the turnover to print an order can be quite long and take 7-8 days or more, so it pays to be ready with all things festive right away. This applies to Diwali designs as well, as this year the festival of light falls early November, in fact the first Day of Diwali falls on October 29th and the last day on November 3rd. Last but not least, you should start focusing on creating, late fall and winter patterns or patterns with more muted winterish color palettes. If you are really on your A game, you can start designing Valentine's day designs as well. Not going to lie here, designing winter patterns and illustrations isn't on my radar yet, It's even harder to get into it than it is fall designs when you live in a tropical climate. My hack for all those seasonal designs that I feel disconnected from is to create them closer to the season in question, upload them during said season but knowing that they will not get fully indexed for this year and be more searchable the next year. Things like snowflakes, Christmas trees, and winter animals are evergreen trends and something people will start searching for at the start of each season. I see May and June as the time to start uploading evergreen geometric and floral designs, but in less summery colors, which is why I tend to pay attention to color trends more than actual seasonal motif trends. On these wise words, I'll leave you all to it...happy month of June!

  • The hot color trend for fall 2024

    I know, I know, we are in May and the summer vacation period is just starting to be something that can be called a near future reality for many. But, when you are a surface designer, you tend to live your professional life a few seasons ahead of time, and right now, is the perfect time to start spotting fall 2024 trends and use them as creative inspiration. After all, people will start buying fall and festive season everything sooner than you think. And this year, there is one hot color trend for fall 2024 you should pay some serious attention to because it has started to pop all over the place already. The world is still in love with yesteryear and all things mod and 70s are still something people are into and along with it, the bold saturated orange, pink, and magenta tones that go with the groovy decade and disco era. Pantone was not completely off mark picking an orange tone as the 2024 color of the year, even if in my opinion they picked the most boring one they could with peach fuzz. Orange has been a color that has popped more and more in the past year alone, and is being mixed with other bold tones like yellow, pink, magenta and purple. Think late 70s and early 80s disco era which where the inspiration for my Disco Dreams collection. Those bold tones have started to show up everywhere and if you need a clear example, look no further than Louis Vuitton's pre-fall Voyager fashion show which took place a few weeks back in Shangai. Love it or hate it, but don't ignore it! Vuitton isn't the only fashion house tapping into those bold colors, several designers have or are tapping into it right now. I got to watch Society6's webinar about upcoming trends which is a perk paid members will get regularly from now on and they also narrowed in on that color trend along with bold colorful mod designs, the rise of Art Deco trends, and colorful bohemian vibes. And their homepage and curator's picks have been reflecting that a lot recently. Not so surprisingly, the Pink and orange tiger design that started selling really well last year on Society6 is still one of my best seller almost a year later. This trend of going for bolder, more saturated colors has been going for a few years already, and my theory is that the 2020 pandemic has changed how people view their space. we've all spent a fair chunk of time stuck at home 4 years ago, and in some countries like India, this dragged well into 2021. I can get how living in beige, white and grey when you are on house arrest can wear thin quickly. Vintage maximalism suddenly became a trend around that time too, people want to have fun with their space...and lives and it shows in all the current trends. I'm all for it as a color lover, I never quite understood the playing it safe with neutrals and nothing else and my whole brand is pretty built on colors. After all, Home Cyn Home's tag line is "Be bold and colorful" I remember my younger days working as an apprentice decorator between 99 and 2003 and about 95% of what we worked with were boring neutrals : brown, grey or navy sofas upholstery, beige curtains galore, and if it was going to be a sheer curtain, you bet the client would pick a white, with the most conservative border. The 90s and Y2K years weren't the most exciting in term of home decor trends and I hope that people never think of reviving those in the future. Give me all the extravagance of the Art Deco era and the 60's and 70s and make it last! By the way, Art Deco is another trend you want to pay special attention to, it's rising right now, and I will write more about it in another blog post. For now, go and have fun exploring the fall 2024 colors and start uploading them now as retro geometric patterns and florals are evergreen motifs that can be used in all seasons.

  • May 2024 printable calendar page

    Another month, another printable calendar page to download and print. If you are new to this site, I upload a calendar page every 1st of the month to my Freebie page and it's time to go grab the May 2024 printable calendar page. I know many of you living in less tropical latitudes are hoping for spring to stick around as the month of April was a bit bipolar. Rest assured it was kind of crazy in Mumbai as well, we've been in an out of heatwaves and it's been hard to focus or feel functional most of the month. At this point I don't have much hope for May, we are in the last stretch before the monsoon hits India and it usually means it will get only hotter and more humid as the month progress. The irony being that I am pretty much done with summer weather, both as a human being and as a designer. If like me you make a living off making pretty illustrations and patterns that are going on products, it means you are starting to put the surfboards and seashells aside and are starting to think about fall and the festive season. I can't bring myself to draw pumpkins and autumn leaves just yet (I tried, it's a no-go) but I started designing a a number of warm toned geometric and floral designs in what looks to be the hot trend of fall 2024 : vibrant oranges, mixed with pink, purple and magenta tones. I'll go about that in details in an upcoming blog post, but the way things are going, Pantone will have to do better than give us a safe, boring, and sedated color like peach fuzz for 2025. In May you can continue uploading summer themed designs, and start uploading 4th of July patterns since people are going to start looking for fabric and accessories around the red, white and blue theme this month. With fabric printing sites like Spoonflower typically taking 1-2 weeks to deliver an order all crafters and sewing enthusiasts out there are planning their projects now so that everything is ready be worn for their family pictures on July 4th. Wishing you all a happy month of May!

  • April 2024 printable calendar page

    It's that time of the month again!!!!! The April 2024 printable calendar page is up for download on the freebie page. I don't know about you, but I'm not quite sure what to make of April. It feels like an in-between kind of month with the school year not being quite over for us just yet, but nothing really major happening. Mumbai gets really hot around that time, so while most people in Europe and US are happy to see steady signs of Spring, we are just about to go into "Summer Hibernation" over here. It involves only really going out to either a pool or a place with AC and spending the rest of the time at home with a tub of ice cream watching Netflix. Most importantly, in my own opinion at least, it's the month that comes after the worst month of the year : March! So you are kind of a survivor exiting a month that has been energetically draining feeling half proud and half beaten and wondering "What now?" If you are a commercial artist and surface designer, here are a few answer to that question : April is the month you should be focusing on promoting spring themed content, but you should be starting to think about Halloween and Christmas designs idea. Which is extremely hard when you live in the tropics and you are getting steamed like a dumpling. The designs you can upload to your PoD shops right now are evergreen florals or geometric designs, non-holiday or season specific illustrations and travel themed illustration, because at this point the summer vacations aren't too far away and people are going to start looking for fun vacation themed t-shirts very soon. You can also keep uploading tropical, coastal and beach themed designs as well. Which is why my new collection Beach n Surf was the only thing I focused on getting out last month. So what have you all been working on recently? Also I'm really trying to find ideas to keep this blog going, so if you have posts suggestions, please leave me a comment below...truly appreciated.

  • Beach n surf collection

    There is a brand new collection on the block, just in time for summer, and all your tropical and beach inspired projects. Say hello to Beach n Surf by Home Cyn Home! This collection started from a design idea I had to add a fun tropical inspired graphic to my t-shirt designs on Teepublic: Beach Please. I had that vision of using a retro front surrounded by tropical flowers and that's what got me digging in my master files to check if there were some assets I could repurpose. My orange and teal surfboard illustration became a prime candidate because it had those big pink hibiscus flowers I could use, and use them I did. Not only did that surfboard illustration provide me with those gorgeous pink hibiscus flowers, it also ended up inspiring the color palette of the whole collection, waste not want not. After that it was just a matter of creating a series of pattern around both the Beach Please design and the surfboard illustration. The pink hibiscus flowers and cream colored plumerias lent themselves perfectly to create two floral patterns that mix and match effortlessly and in the spirit of keeping a beach / coastal vibe to the collection, I added a broad stripes pattern in 3 different color variation : orange and cream, turquoise and cream and a tricolor orange, turquoise and cream version. Along the way I realised that an older existing design matched the theme of the collection and I added the orange, pink and purple sunglasses to it along with the green fishes in orange and white seigaiha waves, which have enough similarities with the original color palette to make them work within the collection. I quickly uploaded all the designs featured in the Beach n Surf collection to Spoonflower where they are available as wallpapers, fabric and pre-sewn textile items as well as on Redbubble and Society6. All of them are of course available for licensing so if you read this and are interested in a partnership contact me to know more. Till date it's the most fun I had creating a collection. Im a sucker for tropical designs, florals and anything that has pink, mint and turquoise in its colorway. That collection has been so inspiring that there is likely to be a few more add-ons to it in the coming weeks which I'll be sure to share with you all. If you want to see more pictures of products featuring those designs, head up to the Beach n Surf collection page.

  • March 2024 printable calendar page

    The March 2024 printable calendar page is here! It's available in the Freebie zone and if you aren't a member yet, don't worry, it's free to join, and I don't spam. As a bonus you also never will miss a blog post again. So, before we dive into the month of March, how has your longer than usual month of February gone? Here, it's been a creative month, I'm working on a collection that will probably go live in the next week or so and my Patreons got to download cool frog themed rewards (in honour of the Leap year). I also have a possible coastal inspired collection in the making thanks to my drawing a million possibilities for a Spoonflower design challenge. So let's talk about March now shall we? For me it's always a taxing month, for some reason I always end up taking on more than I can chew and my energy levels are not in synch with my ambition. It's always felt like a month when I get out of hibernation and forget to warm up before I get into action. So this year I wrote myself a huge fat reminder in my planner to just take it easy and remember to be kind to myself. Change of seasons can be exhausting no matter what they are. Growing up it was going out of SAD mode induced by the lack of light in the winter, here in Mumbai it's going from pleasantly cool winter months to blistering hot fiery pits of hell temperatures in the matter of a few days. The body needs time to cope with that kind of changes. This means it's no time to want to draw all the ideas, get into five thousands projects and try to do it all. Speaking of creative projects, if you are a commercial artist / designer, here is what you should be focusing on during the month of March : Start promoting all your spring themed designs, people are ready to bring in the cute florals and pastel out as the snow melts and the trees start spouting new leaves and blooms. Start designing or collecting ideas for fall themed designs! Yup, before it's officially spring, you need to start getting into pumpkin mode already so that you have things ready to upload in a few months. It's especially important if you are working of collections to roll in for fall. Keep uploading all those summer themed patterns, summer florals, tropical and coastal designs. If you sell your patterns on fabric, chances are people are already thinking of all the beach and summer outfits they can sew now and are starting to pin and save ideas. You can also upload spring themed designs but it might be a bit late if you plan on SEO alone for people to find them and it's definitely getting late for all Easter themed prints and designs because you never want to cut it too close to a Holiday's delivery cutout date. Here is my little secret when it comes to designing ahead of a season when the climate you live in isn't inspiring. Living in a tropical climate, it's hard enough to get into fall season mood in August, leave alone March. What I usually do, is design seasonal stuff closer to the uploading window because it usually is monsoon season which is the closest to fall we ever get and upload those I created in June - July along with some I created the year before but never uploaded. Or I recolor some older fall themed designs in March - April and put them in a folder so that they are ready to upload comes July. I also keep uploading fall themed designs in October even though I know they might not grab any eyeballs then, chances are they will the next year as Google will have had time to index them by then. On these wise words, I'm going to leave you to plan the month ahead.

  • February 2024 Printable Calendar

    Hi everyone! How has January treated you? Do we all agree that it was an extremely long and slow month and that all the internet memes about it being 486 or more days might be on to something? Well the good news is that we are done with January and we are stepping in what has always been the shortest month of the year...even on a leap year where it gains one extra day. For us, it's business as usual, the February 2024 printable calendar is available in the Freebie zone, where you can join us for free. So any plans for the longest shortest month of the year? If you are a commercial artist and surface designer you should ideally be uploading all your summer themed designs on print on demand platforms right now so that Google gets the time to crawl and index them, all the while starting to think about creating autumn, back to school and Halloween designs if you plan on building collections around those themes. Me? I'm more of a design thing during the season itself and shelf them until the next uploading window kind of person, because I need to be in the right mood to design for holidays, but yes, I definitely wait until it's the right time to start uploading seasonal designs, and that time precedes the season by at least 4-5 months. On the marketing front, the first half of February should be dedicated to Valentines Day themed designs and spring florals since it's the month everyone is starting to be fed up with winter (except here in Mumbai) and long for longer, and warmer days. February is going to be the month of the Floral Frog on Patreon with the printable stickers going live at the end of this week and other rewards in the next few weeks.

  • Valentines Breakfast art print

    Did you know that you now can purchase the art prints that were the rewards for my Patreon last year without being a paying member? Since all those flatlays illustrations were part of the 2024 printable calendar that I'm making available on the first of each month in the freebie zone, I decided to release them in several of my shops INCLUDING my brand new Patreon shop (which is public). To avoid overloading my PoD shops with just flatlay illustrations, I'm releasing them one by one over the course of this year, a few days before the new month starts. I already uploaded the January one called "Cozy Winter" and now that February is just around the corner, it's time for the Valentines Breakfast art print to go live with its adorable heart shaped strawberry pancake and mint and pink tea set on a patio tiles table. The illustration is available on select products with Society6, Redbubble, and Teepublic, where you don't have to worry about printing it. Or if you prefer to have the option to print it in different size for your own personal use (that part is really important), you can purchase the digital file on Patreon as a one off purchase. Tier 3 Patreons who had access to that file all along as part of their pledge will continue to be able to do so and can even download it for free in the shop section.

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