It is natural for me then to want to bring that same happiness to a design art prints and note cards that I have been working on for sometime. To me a set naturally consists of 4 designs so while I had two of the designs created a while back, I still needed to work out a 2 more ideas.
I wrote a blog post back in June showing 2 new pen and ink sketches that I had recently finished and how I was going to take those sketches and with the aid of Photoshop Element turn them into the 3rd and 4th design I needed to make a set that I'm calling "Country Plaid". I finished that project and I thought you might want to see the end results. I am very happy with how they have turned out and the whole set is available on my Etsy Shop as either prints, magnets or blank note cards. You can either click the tab above you use this to get to my shop. Country Plaid Note Cards on ETSY
First, let me just repost the sketches as they appeared in my sketchbook and then I can talk about what I did to come up with these new designs.
There are a lot of people who love cardinals and since I already had a chickadee gracing the front of one of the cards, it was natural in my mind to include a second bird in the set. I drew this cardinal with a seed in his mouth. Sunflowers were also a theme in the first 2 cards so I decided to just to create then a another detailed sunflower sketch that I could use. Again, the way my brain works, I had a mouse design so why not bring in a 2nd mouse? I had the perfect drawing in mind. I call him my "peeking mouse" and I have used him on lots of other occasions.
NOW it's HOCKUS POCUS, CLIPPITY CLOP...Work your magic oh mighty PHOTOSHOP!
I sometime feel that it is magic for me to be able to edit my artwork in such a way that I can completely create such diverse compositions using the same drawing. It NEVER gets old!
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| The finished set of "Country Plaid Note Cards" |
I love these💖
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