A Breakthrough!

                                                                Happy Birthday Foxy!

Congratulations!

Roaring with pride!

Congratulations!

And best wishes on your next phase.

                                                                      You're a hoot!

                                                           
                                                                        Celebrate!

After a month of work, a breakthrough! Ironically, the transformation to simplicity was hard work! I wanted to create an abstract, fun, simple, and sophisticated style that is flexible enough to work in for a long time. Now let's hope Recycled Paper Greetings thinks so too!

Greeting Cards

A new style evolved this week. I've been trying to create my own kind of abstract-realism. Appropriately, The Phoenix came first. One more week of greeting cards then back to bridges!

Another Week of Greeting Cards

This week, I continued my lessons with Adobe Illustrator. The program is so easy to use that my cards were soon over processed! I'm trying to keep the painterly effects while designing professional looking cards. I'm working toward a marriage of art and design.

A Week of Learning Adobe Illustrator

We  just returned from 10 days in Puerto Rico. This week, I'm teaching myself how to use Adobe Illustrator to make greeting cards. I love it! It's a very user friendly program. 
I found that when printing the cards, my painterly effects were lost. I edited them out and created new borders in the Illustrator program which printed nicely.

A Week of Greeting Cards

Last week, I applied watercolor techniques to my oils. This inspired me to work with watercolor again. I found a few greeting card companies that accept freelance submissions. I filled the cards in an interesting way with  lively negative spaces for text. I wonder if this will creep back into my oil paintings?
Next, I'll think of interesting, inspirational, happy text.