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Pointillism design challenge winner: Passion Flowers by ceciliamok | Spoonflower Blog

As if they were painting right along with Seurat himself, this week designers took a dotted approach and created brilliantly colorful artwork for our Pointillism design challenge. And while we think all of the design entries belong in the world’s most beloved museums, we’ll get straight to the point (cheesy pun alert!) and congratulate grand prize winner, ceciliamok who will be receiving a $200 Spoonflower credit for her design, Passion Flowers. We also want to recognize second place (beesocks) and third place (elena_naylor) winners who will be receiving $100 and $50 in Spoonflower credit, respectively. Check out the rest of the top ten winning designs!

1. 342 votes for Passion Flowers {Indigo} by ceciliamok
2. 338 votes for Dragonfly dotted damask by beesocks
3. 314 votes for Nest by elena_naylor
4. 289 votes for Lily Pond by erijoyjoy
5. 275 votes for Midwestern Modern Fall Floral Pointillism by spottedpepperdesigns
6. 271 votes for Sparrows by susan_polston
7. 247 votes for Floral Point by torysevas
8. 224 votes for Pointillism Seahorse by adenaj
9. 221 votes for Rainbow Horses by hollybender
10. 205 votes for Blue dot art butterflies by marta_strausa [Read more…] about Announcing the Pointillism Design Challenge Winners

This week's theme of fabric designs based on pointillism provoked a lot of entries that we ended up removing. Though we strive not to be too technical in our interpretation of the Fabric Of the Week themes (to the frustration of the more rule-minded among you, I know), we do want to stress in this case that pointillism is not simply the use of dots to create images. As a style it might be better described as the use of dots (or small strokes) of solid colors placed close together in order to create the impression — because of the blending that happens when the images are viewed at a distance — of even more colors.

It is with apologies to many of the folks who worked hard on their contest entries only to have us remove them from the voting that we've made some attempt to remove fabrics that we felt strayed too far from the idea of pointillism. We still left quite a few entries in, so you'll have no shortage of choices when you're voting.

Vote For Your Favorite Pointillism Fabrics

The entrants this week are: