Eyespot

Look again.

Eyespot collection mood board - hand painted eye patterns in lime green, oxblood and orange on a scraped chalk ground, with wallpaper and pillow mockups and color swatches

These eyes came straight out of my paintings. The paintings started out as something else, and somewhere along the way the paint turned into teardrop eyes with lime irises and orange centers. No creature has eyes like these. Some have smaller eyes growing out of their tails, and some came loose altogether.

This is the first collection I’ve built directly from my paintings. I didn’t redraw anything: the eyes, the scraped grounds and the crayon who, what, when and why all came from the painted surfaces, pieced into repeats with the brush marks and scratches still in them.

An eyespot is the false eye on a moth or butterfly wing. Five designs on a scraped chalk ground. Which one caught your eye?

The five

Click any one to see it bigger.

Eyespot hero pattern - hand painted oxblood teardrop eyes with lime green irises and orange pupils, smaller eyes tucked into their tails and loose lime orbs, with gold crayon writing on a scraped chalk ground
Hero · Chalk — Big eyes, little eyes, loose ones.
Eyespot tossed eyes pattern - hand painted oxblood teardrop eyes with lime irises scattered in every direction over gold crayon writing on a scraped chalk ground
Tossed Eyes · Chalk — Every which way, and calmer.
Eyespot packed orbs pattern - hand painted lime green orbs with orange centers and dark red rims piled edge to edge over a pale painted ground
Packed Orbs · Lime — No lids, edge to edge. The loud one.
Eyespot crayon writing blender - gold crayon handwriting and red marks over a scraped, painted pale gray green ground
Crayon Writing · Chalk — Who, what, when, why.
Eyespot painted ground texture - scraped and painted pale gray green surface with flecks of gold, red and slate, no motifs
Painted Ground · Chalk — The surface on its own.

On the wall, on the cloth

Flat squares don’t tell you how big a thing is. These do.

Eyespot packed lime orbs pattern as large scale wallpaper in a room with white wainscoting and a cream curtain
Wallpaper — the packed orbs at full scale.
Eyespot fabrics folded together on a wood table - tossed eyes, packed lime orbs and the crayon writing blender
Fabric — tossed eyes, packed orbs and the crayon writing, folded together.
Eyespot hero pattern on a square throw pillow against white wood paneling
Pillow — the hero, on a cushion.

Where to find it

Eyespot is in the Shiny Designs shop on Spoonflower. See the whole collection on fabric, wallpaper and gift wrap, printed to order. The packed orbs are there twice, once at fabric size and once at full wallpaper scale.

If you’re a buyer, a maker, or anyone who wants this collection on something, write to me here.

Shine your light!
Monette