A toast to a great new year ahead.
(Artwork- Janet Hill Studio)
Artwork
Italian Vogue Illustration
Grab Bag- Portraits
Oil on canvas portraits by Hugo Guinness.
The Country Mouse
(Photo- Martha Browne)
IDEA- Dried Up
IDEA- Business Card
Lately I’ve been playing with some design ideas for my new business card. This is one of them.
Busy Days
The World Of Interiors Magazine Cover In Dollhouse Scale
Lockdown provided lots of time to work on various projects. My husband and I painted our living room and then our dining room. After that, I began hand painting over sixty cabinet cards that were a big hit with shoppers when the antique market opened. And finally I finished this project suggested by The World of Interiors Magazine instagram. The magazine wanted readers to create a favorite cover. Many responded and did artwork. But I decided to replicate a cover using dollhouse scale furniture.
The cover I chose was from October 1996 (above). I found a dollhouse sofa with the right shape and simply snapped off the back to turn it into a daybed. I painted over the wood frame and made my own fabric cushion with painted-on green stripes. Walls are foam core and the wide stripes are paper. The floor is popsicle sticks. The lights were a challenge though. I tried various materials and found that paperclips and folded black paper worked best. You can see the finished project in the introduction photograph of this post.
(Photos- Martha Browne)
Send In The Clowns
(Painted photo cards- Martha Browne)
Then&Now- A Closer Look
Then- Pears And Their Parts by Jacob Stauffer c. 1862.
Now– Still life photography by Luzia Simmons.
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