I made 4 of these owl cards that were pretty identical, so I'll just show one here. Used my Sassafras Lass paper and owl stamp. The polkadot tree branch is a free-handed drawing. It looks a little like one of Cornish Heritage Farms' stamp and I admit, I was trying for that. That stamp set is on my wishlist, so someday but not yet. I was playing around and tried embossing the owl using Colorbox pigment ink in orange and orange embossing powder. That's why her color looks a bit speckled...cuz it's a little twinkly in person...just a little. I have some ATC's and my first APC's (Artist Post Cards) to show, but I need to make slide shows first. I did manage to download the images from my Flickr, so next time. :-) I have been blessed this summer to have had my bunco ATC make the front page on my [artisttradingcards] yahoo group, and one of my post cards made the front page of 4x6 Expressions, a new yahoo group I joined that makes post card art. But I am really honored to have a page up right now at Art-E-Zine . My Passion Play Matchbook is the subject. I love perusing through all of Gillian's pages of so many talented artists and their art. It's such rich eye candy, such a wide variety of technique and style. Spending time there helps me relax and "flow", even if it's just thinking and dreaming of creating, which is what I seem to do the most of. If I had a penny for every hour I spend that way...sigh. ;-) Anyway, please go take a look and see how she laid my page out. I worked really hard on the finishing details of the matchbook, and took the best photos I could, and her graphic design style really takes advantage of the piece's details and color. Gillian's layout style is so unique. I readily confess that it assaulted me the first time I visited her site many moons ago, but I soon learned to appreciate how the visual evokes passion in the viewer, if one allows it. I'm just so tickled!
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Art to Share!
I'm on the mend from the computer problems and lovin' my new laptop. Still working on retrieving and transferring and backing up, though, so I thought I'd take this opportunity to catch up on showing more of what I created this summer. 
I made 4 of these owl cards that were pretty identical, so I'll just show one here. Used my Sassafras Lass paper and owl stamp. The polkadot tree branch is a free-handed drawing. It looks a little like one of Cornish Heritage Farms' stamp and I admit, I was trying for that. That stamp set is on my wishlist, so someday but not yet. I was playing around and tried embossing the owl using Colorbox pigment ink in orange and orange embossing powder. That's why her color looks a bit speckled...cuz it's a little twinkly in person...just a little. I have some ATC's and my first APC's (Artist Post Cards) to show, but I need to make slide shows first. I did manage to download the images from my Flickr, so next time. :-) I have been blessed this summer to have had my bunco ATC make the front page on my [artisttradingcards] yahoo group, and one of my post cards made the front page of 4x6 Expressions, a new yahoo group I joined that makes post card art. But I am really honored to have a page up right now at Art-E-Zine . My Passion Play Matchbook is the subject. I love perusing through all of Gillian's pages of so many talented artists and their art. It's such rich eye candy, such a wide variety of technique and style. Spending time there helps me relax and "flow", even if it's just thinking and dreaming of creating, which is what I seem to do the most of. If I had a penny for every hour I spend that way...sigh. ;-) Anyway, please go take a look and see how she laid my page out. I worked really hard on the finishing details of the matchbook, and took the best photos I could, and her graphic design style really takes advantage of the piece's details and color. Gillian's layout style is so unique. I readily confess that it assaulted me the first time I visited her site many moons ago, but I soon learned to appreciate how the visual evokes passion in the viewer, if one allows it. I'm just so tickled!
I made 4 of these owl cards that were pretty identical, so I'll just show one here. Used my Sassafras Lass paper and owl stamp. The polkadot tree branch is a free-handed drawing. It looks a little like one of Cornish Heritage Farms' stamp and I admit, I was trying for that. That stamp set is on my wishlist, so someday but not yet. I was playing around and tried embossing the owl using Colorbox pigment ink in orange and orange embossing powder. That's why her color looks a bit speckled...cuz it's a little twinkly in person...just a little. I have some ATC's and my first APC's (Artist Post Cards) to show, but I need to make slide shows first. I did manage to download the images from my Flickr, so next time. :-) I have been blessed this summer to have had my bunco ATC make the front page on my [artisttradingcards] yahoo group, and one of my post cards made the front page of 4x6 Expressions, a new yahoo group I joined that makes post card art. But I am really honored to have a page up right now at Art-E-Zine . My Passion Play Matchbook is the subject. I love perusing through all of Gillian's pages of so many talented artists and their art. It's such rich eye candy, such a wide variety of technique and style. Spending time there helps me relax and "flow", even if it's just thinking and dreaming of creating, which is what I seem to do the most of. If I had a penny for every hour I spend that way...sigh. ;-) Anyway, please go take a look and see how she laid my page out. I worked really hard on the finishing details of the matchbook, and took the best photos I could, and her graphic design style really takes advantage of the piece's details and color. Gillian's layout style is so unique. I readily confess that it assaulted me the first time I visited her site many moons ago, but I soon learned to appreciate how the visual evokes passion in the viewer, if one allows it. I'm just so tickled!
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I had an absolute blast following all these links! THere is so much awesome art. Way to go lady!!!!
The owl card is just too cute! :) Off to check out the Art-E-Zine link.
The owl card is so cute! I love your passion play book, great vintage images.
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