Heavy Bloom

Late summer, nothing is tidy.

Heavy Bloom collection mood board - ten hand painted gourd patterns in oat, olive and brick red

I drew every one of these freehand, without looking up a single real gourd. So they aren’t quite real and they aren’t quite cartoons — they’re what my hand thinks a gourd is. Then I painted them in Procreate with an oil brush, in oat, olive, brick red and burnt orange.

The line wobbles. The paint goes over the line. There are smears where I dragged a colour somewhere it wasn’t meant to go, and I left every bit of it in, because that’s the part that tells you a real hand made a real thing.

Ten designs, two grounds. Which one would you put on a whole wall?

The Ten

Every design repeats at ten inches. Click any one to see it bigger.

Heavy Bloom Windfall - hand painted wonky gourds and vines on an oat ground, 10 inch repeat
Windfall · Oat — Everything came down at once.
Heavy Bloom The Heavy Ones - large hand painted gourds on an oat ground, 10 inch repeat
The Heavy Ones · Oat — Big gourds, one to a slot. Nothing sits up straight.
Heavy Bloom The Heavy Ones - large hand painted gourds on a brick red ground, 10 inch repeat
The Heavy Ones · Brick — Same drawing. Completely different room.
Heavy Bloom The Pile - packed hand painted gourds in acid green on brick red, 10 inch repeat
The Pile · Brick — No ground left showing. My own favourite.
Heavy Bloom Skins - brick red gourd outlines tossed on an oat ground, 10 inch repeat
Skins · Oat — Just the outlines. The quietest way in.
Heavy Bloom Skins - acid green gourd outlines on a brick red ground, 10 inch repeat
Skins · Brick — Where the acid green finally gets to be loud.
Heavy Bloom Seed Dot - hand painted olive dots on an oat ground, 10 inch repeat
Seed Dot · Oat — Closer to seeds than to polka dots.
Heavy Bloom Seed Dot - hand painted oat dots on a brick red ground, 10 inch repeat
Seed Dot · Brick — The whole mood in one simple print.
Heavy Bloom Cane Stripe - hand painted olive and oat stripe, 10 inch repeat
Cane Stripe · Oat — Named for the split garden cane.
Heavy Bloom Cane Stripe - hand painted brick red and oat stripe, 10 inch repeat
Cane Stripe · Brick — The one I would reach for first.

On the wall, on the cloth

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

Heavy Bloom The Pile cushion in acid green and brick red on a knit throw
Cushion — The Pile, where the red earns its place.
Heavy Bloom fabrics folded in a stack - Seed Dot, Windfall, Skins on brick and Cane Stripe
Fabric stack — Four of the ten, folded.
Heavy Bloom Windfall wallpaper in a kitchen with open shelves and a farmhouse sink
Kitchen — Windfall on a whole wall.

Where to find it

Heavy Bloom isn’t for sale yet. It’s drawn, it’s finished, and it’s waiting on a shop door to open. The studio newsletter is where I’ll say so first — and if you’re a buyer, a maker or anyone who wants this collection on something, write to me directly here: https://shinydesigns.com/get-in-touch/