Neutral Wallpaper Design: Enduring Dogwood Botanical Pattern

Whenever I visit Oregon in the late spring, I’m reminded of the beautiful dogwood tree in my childhood back yard. These lovely flowering trees line the walking paths and are sprinkled throughout the neighborhoods. The flower is not only alluring, it’s durable and able to withstand hard downpours of rain. It makes sense that this beautiful flower is also known to represent the ability to survive life’s challenges. 

For some time, I had wanted to work on a wallpaper design inspired by the dogwood tree, and I chose it as my subject matter for a Spoonflower challenge. The challenge was to create a botanical design in a neutral color palette to be used on grasscloth textured wallpaper. Choosing a color palette of soothing creamy tan and pale sage green, I set to work. 

As I’m finding my illustration voice, I experiment with a few illustration styles when I start a new design. I know as an illustrator, it’s best to market myself with one very distinct look, but I find it hard to stick with one style. I have a few styles that I work with. My hope is that one of them will finally take over. With that in mind, I found working with loose and easy brush strokes for this piece felt right. In doing so, I was hoping to create a sense of the way the flowers and leaves move in nature. It was also an enjoyable way to draw since it was more freeing than some of my other work.

For me, I see this design as wallpaper or as upholstery fabric for furniture or curtains since the pattern is large at twelve inches. The calm, neutral colors make it versatile in a space. Find this design and more original illustrated surface and textile patterns on my Spoonflower shop.

Enduring Dogwood Botanical wallpaper and fabric surface pattern design by OcuLoop.