Heavy Bloom

Late summer, nothing is tidy.

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

Drawn line · Drawn freehand and painted digitally with an oil brush. About the two lines →

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 color 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 favorite.
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.

All on one page

Every design, the colors and the licensing details on a single sheet. Click it to see it full size.

Heavy Bloom collection sheet - all ten hand painted gourd, melon, seed dot and cane stripe patterns on Oat and Brick grounds, with color swatches, specifications and product mockups
The whole collection, specs and all.

Where to find it

All ten designs are available as fabric, wallpaper and gift wrap in the Shiny Designs shop on Spoonflower. If you’re a buyer, a maker, or anyone who wants this collection on something, write to me here.