A process
A very very great friend of mine got married recently, and to send the proper kind of good wishes and congratulations, I decided to draw a card for them. I started by drawing in pencil a simple message in a Copperplate style of calligraphy. But then the curlicues—oh the curlicues! They started sprouting out of every ascender, descender, finial and …some other word.
The curlicues! Oh the curlicues!
I showed it to my husband who thought it needed some more variation in line. Too much of the same. So the curlicues grew sproutlings:
Look at them sprouting everywhere. It's almost like an infestation.
So a nice little monochromatic card was ready. But for a spring wedding, it needed a little sprinkling of color. Some pale green and pink.
The Colorful Sproutlings—so springy
Painted while watching Celebrity Apprentice. Is that shameful?
The Donald Says No; not shameful
This is awesome! Love it.
Oh the curlicues! 🙂 Love it!