Archive for the ‘Postcards’ Category
La chanson de la mer
ATC: la chanson de la mer
I made this ATC for a beginners’ swap over at Swap-bot.com. I’ll be snail-mailing this ATC soon to my swap partner in Argentina, and I hope she likes it!
This ATC uses a vintage image from Art E-zine’s Little Darlings collection printed on iron-on transfer and, well, transfered to a piece of cheesecloth.
The image inspired me to add the torn piece of sheet music and the title, “la chanson de la mer”, or Song of the Sea. It took me some time to find the right piece of lace, though (I had wanted to use this lovely scrap that looked partly like a fish net, but it was quite unwieldy and so it ended up as the background for the photo shoot!), and it took me just as long to decide whether or not the dainty lace and ribbon would contrast too much with the rough cheesecloth (which is mounted on some handmade paper). Well, I eventually decided to push through with the dainty stuff, and I’m glad everything turned out pretty well.
BTW, I had just as much fun shooting this card as making it! But I’ll probably save that for another post…
You are My Sunshine!
Digital postcard art, March 2009
Haha, am having a blast with these medieval tarot cards! Here’s another image, The Sun, from the Visconti-Sforza deck. What better way to let someone know that he or she is special than with this “You are My Sunshine” medieval-inspired postcard?
This one was easy to make: I simply cropped the original image down to size, then layered on a strip of torn paper stamped with the sentiment and doodles. Oh, and I had to give our sun-bearer a fig leaf of sorts so as not to offend anyone. Tah-dah! Another digital postcard in a jiff!
Hope your day’s all warm and sunny! 
Tags: Cards, Digital Art, Medieval, Postcards, Tarot
Save Our Wildlife
Digital postcard, February 2009
OK, here’s another study of the animal-cruelty-prevention postcard. Heck, couldn’t make up my mind which one was better, so I decided to post both.
Tags: Advocacy, Animals, Digital Art, Postcards
Stop Animal Cruelty
Digital postcard art, February 2009
My first attempt at postcard art. This one’s inspired by the Visconti-Sforza tarot deck, and shows the “Strength” card. Well, beating lions to death with a club may have been a very acceptable - even highly laudable - deed in the old days, but not anymore. Unless you enjoy the attention that comes with being targeted by PETA.
This took less than 30 minutes to put together in Photoshop Elements, but of course the idea’s been nagging at me ever since I spied this image at Liam Quin’s site. If you need old illustrations that are public domain (and free!), do visit the site!
Tags: Digital Art, Postcards
