Mr. and Mrs.

Yay! I can finally reveal a small, but super fun project Matt and I finished a couple weeks ago.
A co-worker of mine got married this past Sunday April 25th (congratulations Sarah & Dan!!) so we decided to do something personal. Sarah has a boston terrier (Shortie) and collects oodles upon oodles of boston terrier artwork/prints/anything. so of course we joined forces and created a his and hers boston terrier drawings- each in our own style. I have to say, it was a blast!



Matt drew the mister, I drew the misses.


happy ever after you two!!

personalized canvas

Waaay back in July (wow, is it really mid november?!!) I drew up four bird ink and watercolors for button designs to be handed out as favors. It was seriously the best project for me since the wedding theme is lovebirds! In the middle of sketches and emails being sent back and forth, the bride-to-be had an awesome idea. Instead of a boring ol traditional guest book she wanted a personalized canvas where all the guests could sign and it would be ready to hang on the wall. seriously, what a fantastic keepsake.

The canvas is 30 inches x 40 inches and features the bride and groom birds along with two smaller birds representing his daughter Lily and their son Gavin. I have to say my favorite part was doing the ink work (see last photo of the corner detail). Working with acrylic on canvas was a bit of a challenge for me, since I've recently moved on from thick textured watercolor paper to working on smooth bristol paper.  But thanks to Matt and his patience with me the canvas has been completed! Best wishes to the love birds Megan and Albert- they get married this Saturday!!!

wedding buttons

the lovebird wedding buttons colored in.
I love how these turned out, and Megan loves them too!!! so exciting
next step is to work on her "guestbook" which is going to be a canvas painted by me! can. not. wait!

+ 3 more!

more inked drawings for your viewing and my watercoloring.
enjoy!

inked!

a quick little update on some inked up love birds.
this is my favorite part of the process seeing a nice crisp image sans color.

Ok it's been what seems like eons since I've been on here. (again).
But I promise to make a much better attempt on the updates! so many awesome things have come up that I can't not share.
first of these updates is love bird drawings!! (no surprise right?) A really good friend of mine's brother is getting married. His fiance contacted me and wants some images for buttons! and how perfect is this, the theme is lovebirds! It's a fall wedding with a great color scheme of plum, blues, greens. Needless to say I'm quite excited. here are some of the quick idea sketches I sent her this morning.
enjoy!