I have just participated in a crafty mail swap, with the theme of "decorated enveloped".
I decided to use water-colour and ink to decorate my envelopes. Clearly a medium selected prior to imagining what might happen if the envelopes got wet in the post. Ooops!
Anyhow, ignoring the dangers and forging on with water-colour, I selected a motif I thought each partner might like.
One envelope was decorated with a cat (above). Unfortunately it has a bit of a deformed head. I think the cranial miscalculation occurred about the time I was saying "Stand back. The cat does not need extra purple crayon on it".
The other envelope (below) has been decorated with lots of crochet granny squares. Er ... or should I say something wonky and colourful that is meant to resemble granny squares. You see I think I had the tension all wrong while I was drawing. You know ... the sort of tension you get when someone is wielding a purple crayon near your artwork?
I hope my swap partners like their envelopes.
Excellent envelopes, I'm sure they will be received with happy smiles. I especially like the puss cat and I don't think the head looks deformed, but then I do look at our cat who likes to head butt the cat flap, so perhaps I have no idea what I'm talking about. It looks great regardless.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh Liesl, is there no end to your talents? Those are really good.
ReplyDeleteThey look absolutely superb to me. I bet they will put a smile on a few faces along their journey!
ReplyDeleteThey look beautiful Liesl. You've got amazing talent for sketching and painting.
ReplyDeleteCan you glad wrap envelopes?
ReplyDeleteThese are fantastic! I think you have a very expressive line and the colours are so vivid and happy! There is nothing wrong with the cat or the granny squares. They are gorgeous works of art! :)
You really should show us more of these wonderful illustrative talents that you have!
ReplyDeleteboth are really nice :) love the colours in the granny square one, nice and bright.
ReplyDeleteYou did such a terrific job. I can't even draw a decent stick person, you're an artist!!! Keep up the great work Liesl.
ReplyDeleteThese are beautiful! The Granny squares one has a bit of the Kaffe Fassets about it! You are a talented woman!
ReplyDeleteWOW! These are amazing! What a lucky swap partner x
ReplyDeleteliesl, they look terrific, such detail
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