Making textures for paintings

Here's an early stage of the painting that's my flyers and posters. I made the flock pattern background with a vinyl cutter.  It's the kind of work best done when no-one's around as a complex design like this can take a long time to cut and the sound of the machine is loud and annoying!

I made a repeat block in Illustrator to cut down on file size, then had to punch out pieces of the design.  After that, the time consuming bit is taking the negative shapes away, with a craft knife.