Realistic Composition from Photos
I am fascinated by photographs. I take a lot of photos and examine composition in them. I find it interesting that some objects show only partly in the photos. This little detail gives realistic look for illustrations too.
Half Cut Elements, Fuzzy Background
As you can guess I have more peonies than roses in my garden but in greeting cards, I have to admit, roses look great. In this card, I applied my photographic studies. It includes not only half cut elements but also the fuzzy background to add dimension and depth. To create an imaginary world that looks like it really exists – that’s my dream!
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Retro Greeting Card
I am a child of 70s. My mother had mustard yellow painted doors in her kitchen and bright turquoise walls. I spent my early childhood playing on the kitchen floor and looking at the wild patterns of the plastic carpet.
So one evening when remembering all that, I just had to make a very retro greeting card!
Art Journaling Doilies
I haven’t ever been brilliant with watercolors but I have grown to like them very much. Recently I have used them more and more in art journaling. On this page I have used just watercolors, color pencils and markers.
This page tells a story and that’s something I want to increase too: add more text and content to my pages. Here I write about how as a small child I wanted to learn how to crochet. I thought it is a part of good parenting to teach the child to crochet as young as possible! As soon as I learned it I was crocheting like crazy: doll clothes, doilies, clothes, valence curtains … I was the crocheting queen until I started dating and my boyfriend took me to see his family’s summer cottage.
All the textiles in that log cabin were crocheted! Full-sized curtains, bed covers, cushions, table cloths, you name it! His grandmother had done all that. I was speachless. When I met her she told me that a doctor had told her not to crochet anymore as her hands hurt. But as she wanted to do something she had started to learn printing fabric.
The relationship with the boy did not last and the grandmother must have been passed away already but now I know that you do not need to hold the hook to crochet. You can use your pen!
Using Hand Decorated Papers in Scrapbook Pages
“The golden door is open” says this page. I feel like I have entered the new level of scrapbooking when I have increased the amount of handmade elements, especially hand decorated papers.
I wonder why store-bought papers are so popular. Using my own papers is so inspiring. Here’s “Empty Scenes”.
In this page I have used odd leftover letter stickers to create patterned background area in the bottom of the page. Did not cost anything but with some gesso and acrylics they got a new look.
With hand decorated papers I have begun to pick themes that I never did before. Like this one about Sibelius’s Finlandia hymn, my aunt and being a Finn.
