Creating my own kind of vintage :: first take

I took this image from a fabric for sale at Retro Age Vintage Fabrics and saved it to my iPad. One of my favourite tools on the iPad is Adobe Ideas – it’s incredibly fun to draw with (whilst standing in the kitchen waiting for lentils to cook) and better still it’s free. I love the colour extraction tool and with a little playing around I came out with this:

So my final colour palette is on the left – I didn’t really need to explain that did I? Then there’s the beginning of my very own vintage (circa 1973 I’d say) design. I think I might see how I go creating it in Illustrator, what do you think? Groovy or what… feel free to reply with or what.