MAY DAY BOUQUET

In France on May Day, bouquet of Lily of the Valley is offer to loved ones, family & friends. No two project ever start the same way. From this pencil sketch, I wanted to finish this as a white & green painting.

I was just playing around on photoshop to get a better composition...by clicking on different layers & filters, the drawing turns into this elegant white design.

Hand drawn fonts are added onto another layer, to turn the design into specific greetings.

EASTER DESIGN

An Easter design that started with a pot of Easter lily from the florist.

close up

I didn't know what I'm going to get till I start clicking on different layers on Photoshop. A simple rendering can be quite enchanting with the magic of photoshop.

exploring the drawing with photoshop

illustrated angel from my archive

I kind of like the mood created by combining the distress texture with the black & white floral drawing.The stainglass really pops against the tone texture.Leave me your mailing address under comment, if you want an art card of this new design.

NEW DESIGN

A NEW DESIGN

With photoshop, the sky is the limit with just a few clicks. I started by doodling with my 6B graphite stick. I choose this font style mainly because the width is just the right size. I use my kneaded eraser for the polka dots pattern. The fonts came first for this new design

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6B graphite stick

The swirls & vines are from my archive.

Happy Birthday with vines on peacock pattern

TAKE ME TO PARIS

Illuminated script from my archive

From a quick sketch that's not exactly exciting. Photoshop lets me play with various layers to turn this into an interesting greeting.

initial eiffel tower sketch

I scan a tea menu onto a watercolor wash

PHOTOSHOP MAGIC

From sketch to photoshop magic...

how cool it would be to be cruising on this sweet vintage bike. A little imagination goes a long way to get thru these bleak grey days.

bike with layers of florals on green pastel landscape

same illustration with a little photoshop magic

HAND PAINTED SCRIPT

Despite the many tools on photoshop

 ,nothing beats the look of something that's hand drawn. After initial doodling, I'm cutting & pasting various size zerox to see how it all fits together. Many layouts were toss out, before I apply colors to this script. The last step to my new design is created on photoshop. I layer the hand painted script on top of my rose illustration.

rose sketch from last week

ROSES & BUTTERFLY

edits with butterfly

Getting a lot of mileage from a bouquet of roses.  Started with a pastel sketch & experimenting with color & texture. After I scan the painting, more experimenting on photoshop. I zoom in on the pink & green bouquet & layer on the butterfly…this now looks like a greeting card.

from my garden

BLUE PINK RANANCULUS

Beauty in the simple & ordinary

on my desk

 … Taking a small Rananculus

experimenting with colors

layer: LOVE YOU

layer: flower fairy

and different layers on Photoshop.