Saturday 25 August 2012

Business cards, bags and birds

Last year (while working on my Diploma of visual arts) I was bird obsessed, they popped up in my sketch book all the time, and I had fun using photoshop to create different effects. I decided I wanted my business cards (to be designed as part of the "Drawing for promotion" section) to look handmade, as befitting a crafter.
The Boobook owl in the "photoshopped" image above, developed from a doodle, and I enlarged the design to use as a stencil for printing on calico bags. The filigreed blackbird grew from a sketch of a visitor to my garden....I superimposed "Iron lace" over the silhouette. After a visit to Adelaide, I was still inspired by the lovely houses there, with iron decoration.

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