#bowling alley carpet

I spent way too long doodling this

The second of my new patterns is Cambrian Bowling Alley Carpet, which is exactly what it sounds like - a bunch of Cambrian era creatures in a pattern inspired by 1990’s bowling alley carpets. Why? I don’t know, it’s not my style at all, but it was just one of those things where once I thought of it i needed to make it exist or else it’d lurk in the back of my mind forever. (Much like my Werther’s wrapper waistcoat) I painted the creatures in gouache and scanned them and then spent a very very long time editing.

I made a smaller coordinating print of just the little confetti creatures in between the larger ones, and I liked the way the omnidens looked so much I added some texture and made them their own print with blue and brown versions.

I wrote down all the names as I drew them so I wouldn’t forget that the big creatures are: omnidens, anomalocaris, opabinia, norwoodia, marrella, facivermis, diania, pikaia, and hallucigenia.

And the little confetti creatures are: orthoceras, burgessia, wiwaxia, isoxys, kiisortoqia, tuzoia, vetulicolia, dinomischus, urokodia, plectronoceras, nectocaris, eokinorhynchus, and various trilobites. (Every single one of those names is underlined in red! Spellcheck must really hate prehistoric invertebrates.)

All of these patterns are on Spoonflower,MyFabricDesigns, and Redbubble.

(Insert joke here about being nostalgic for a simpler time before smartphones and trees and internal skeletons)