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\"Spring<\/a>

Spring flower – LeMasney Consulting<\/p><\/div>\n

Tomorrow is 2010’s spring equinox, and so I thought I’d celebrate with a highly stylized flower design.<\/p>\n

In Inkscape, I started by adding two inline circles, and then connecting them with a Bezier path to create the dual opposing dewdrop shape. I then unioned these and duplicated them, moving the center of rotation between the two shapes. This made essentially the gray shape you see there. Next, I duplicated and path-outset the shape to make the light blue shape. I did the same for the deep blue shape. For the shadow effect behind the light blue and deep blue shapes, I duped those shapes, changed them to gray, and gave them some blur. I added the blue circles using the ellipse tool. Finally, I used the candy coating effect (dupe, intersect with circle, apply gradient) for the gray shape and each of the blue circles separately.<\/p>\n

Hope you enjoyed it, spring’s right around the corner now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is 2010’s spring equinox, and so I thought I’d celebrate with a highly stylized flower design. In Inkscape, I started by adding two inline circles, and then connecting them with a Bezier path to create the dual opposing dewdrop shape. 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