A Rhino for Spoonflower!

This week, I've created a fabric design that celebrates rhinos!

'Rhino + Friends' ©2014 Patty Rybolt Designs. All Rights Reserved. 

'Rhino + Friends' (1/2 brick repeat)
©2014 Patty Rybolt Designs. All Rights Reserved. 

My inspiration for this assignment comes from these photo's that I took at our local zoo… Lion Country Safari. It is a drive through zoo so you can get up-close and personal with the animals in their own environment. The rhino area is large and they have many white rhino's of all different sizes including some of the babies pictured here. 

The Design… Started with sketches of my inspiration photo's on my iPad (Adobe Ideas App). My family was on vacation and I did all of my sketches this week while on or waiting for airplanes. When I got home I opened the illustrations in Photoshop and colored and arranged the elements into a simple layout. The 1/2 brick repeat is sized as a fat quarter (21" x 18"). Voting began on Thursday, July 10th, 2014. Vote Here!

 

Mature White Rhino.

Rhino baby!

Baby White Rhino.

Sleepy

More about the Rhino's from the Lion Country Safari website… 
"White Rhinoceros are located in Hwange National Park which is a famous reserve located in western Zimbabwe.

Lion Country Safari is proud to be a part of the SSP (Species Survival Plan) of this endangered species, and many white rhinos have been born on our preserve since 1977. In the wild, rhinos have been hunted for their horns. Instead of being composed of bony material, rhino “horns” are made of fibers of keratin, a protein also found in our human hair and fingernails. White rhinos get their name from the Afrikaans word “wyde,” meaning wide, or square-lipped. Their color is actually stone-gray, not white as their name suggests."

Safari Baby made the top 10!

Just found out that my 'Safari Baby' fabric design made the top 10 this week! 

Thanks to everyone who voted!!! 

Spoonflower also announced today that they will not only sell fabric, wallpaper and wall decals, but will also be selling Gift Wrap($15. per roll satin/matt finish)!! 

Fat quarter bundles of all top 10 baby animal fabrics
are available for $60. at Spoonflower.com

'Safari Baby' is now available at Spoonflower.com
fabric + wallpaper + wall decals + gift wrap
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