Thanks to the buyer(s) at my Art by Joyce Jackson Zazzle store, who purchased 8 Vision Quest post cards. :))) Created from my original painting. I decorated the border with a lacy white scroll. 4.25" by 5.6" on 120 (heavy) card stock with gloss finish. No minimum order. You can opt to customize it with your own words.
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My most recently completed project. A client wanted specific items included in a picture she'll be using in her ad handouts and business cards. The main things she needed besides the wording were brightly colored perennial garden flowers, a wrought iron scrollwork sign, and a Victorian house. She wanted the word font to have a Victorian feel to it. Because she was able to meet with me in person, I set her up to scan through the many fonts I have available so that she was free to pick the exact ones she wanted. Even if you live too far away from me, I can arrange a way for you see samples of the many font style options. This particular client also needed some items, such as the wrought iron framework and yellow day lilies, placed in a specific way. I made pencil sketches as we talked over her goals for the final product. Next I put the sketch on my computer and worked on it with graphics software. The words she used were her own choice and are not available for re-use. I'm showing how they were placed on the picture. This picture can't be re-used as an ad for anyone else, but I can create a unique ad for other garden maintenance people and landscapers, and for almost any other type of use. Here's a short list of artwork types I can't, am unwilling, or unable to create. I will not create obscene or profane artwork. No dark art or artwork with negative or destructive connotations. No artwork for anything espousing belligerent political, racist, or sexist viewpoints. Most of the artwork in this sample is my own original creation. Some of it is made from modified graphics software shapes and clip art. I can do your artwork for a variety of purposes. Maybe you want a new business card and flyer handouts. You may only want something simple as a header for your online stationary. We can discuss arrange a licensing agreement that's mutually comfortable so that you can make use of my artwork skins. Skins or tubes are computer graphics rendered in layers with all of the background fill removed. You can add them as a part of a composition you craft. Art crafting is a new concept for me, but whatever your goals, I will work with you to come up with something that fits your needs. Announcing the Contest Winner! Congratulations to the winner of this contest, Phyllis Harris!! You will receive a copy of this card in the mail in a few days. Blank on the inside. Back has text shown on bottom - minus the copyright notice, which I forgot until after I printed it. You can tell eveyone I said so, Phyllis. I'm sure they're interested. ;) The picture is actually printed upside down, not how it's shown to allow for it being center folded. Ya-a-a-ay, Phyllis! I hope you'll like it. Thank you for your contribution to helping me get the final version of this finished. I listened to your opinion. I needed another set of eyes to take a fresh look at it and you very nicely responded. And it won Second Prize at the Fine Art America contest yesterday, June 3, 2013. So now you can tell that to whomever you'd like, too. Maybe that's a little more interesting. Let's hope so. :)) Here's the info on the contest where it won the prize. Earlier This Year This contest was announced in April on my Facebook page. This is what people who came here from my Facebook page saw: Vote and win a prize. Open to all. Randomly selected winner gets a free blank note card with a picture of this dragon on it. All you have to do is leave a comment saying which version of these is your favorite and why. Vote for which one you like best. Vote by number. If you like more than one equally, vote that way by saying what you think. Enter your votes as a comment below. 7) This and the next one were added a day later. I think I like this the best. It's always good to look away for awhile. I took out the rainbow colors in the shamrock. I seemed too busy this AM with the rainbow in it in addition to being in the dragon's belly. I always see the overall appearance better when I break for a day or more and get a fresh look. 8) Everything's the same as #7, except 2 changes. Lighter color and reticulation, aka, it looks speckled. Same as #2, except heavier eye feature. Same as #1, except lighter eye feature No Eye Feature, Stronger Colors Than #4. No Eye Feature, Lighter Colors than #3 Reticulated, i.e., it looks like it's speckled. Same as #6, except heavier, or stronger colors. Same as #5, except paler colors. Latest picture Changes after making smooth curves in Photoshop. Something I had to learn. Not very easy to do in Photoshop, but worth the trouble finding out. Using the Tursion tablet (essentially the same as the Monoprice tablet) to sketch has been a great asset. The jitter is a little bit of a challenge, even with it set to 0% in Photoship. One artist said this is the main difference between high-price Wacoms and the lower priced tablets. He said he can't draw straight lines without getting a little too much jitter using the Monoprice tablet. But someone else said they gave away their Wacom and only use their inexpensive Monoprice tablet because they like it so much. Who to believe? I don't know, but for now, this is good enough and I still love it! This started as a crude sketch, my first entry in Ellen Million's Sketch Fest. It still needs a lot of work. I colored it in somewhat with colored pencils. Creating the knots and making the over and under weave appearance takes time. Since working on this entirely in Photoshop, I've developed the knotwork for the legs and wing. I've sponged in some colors and reduced the size of the shamrock. I'll erase out the graphite gray background, although I do kind of like the gray. I might put it back in or keep it in some areas. Wherever it was erased, the white background shows through. More is still to be done on other areas as I proceed.
Bank Check ArtworkAny of the artwork here can be made into a print, greeting card, or ACEO. Just send a request. Pricing will be the same as for all my other artwork. Indian Fairy 1 A sample of my Works in Progress - WIP's. Everything is hand drawn with pencils, working from my imagination. Produced on paper with graphite and colored pencil, then photographed and edited in Photoshop. I might give her a raven to hold instead of the crystal and Light circle. Still thinking it over. This is part of a series of Fairies that will illustrate bank checks. They will be sold by a company that produces and sells checks. Details coming soon. Indian Fairy 2 A rough graphite and colored pencil sketch of my second work in the Indian Fairy series for artist illustrated bank checks. I kind of like the look with only one wing. But I'll add the other one. It's just a matter of being satisfied with how this one looks, then reversing it to make the one for the other side. Adh Mór Dragun A very early stage of what will be the first dragon in my Dragons series for artwork on bank checks. Much refining still to do. This is the result after I entered it in the Ellen Million Sketch Fest today. Only one hour is allowed for artists to create a sketch based on a Prompt someone posts. The Prompt for this was Celtic Dragon. Thus the name, Adh Mór Dragun which are the pieced-together Celtic words for "Good Luck Dragon". A nice way to celebrate St. Patrick's day. I'm looking forward to receiving my first tablet for drawing and graphics. I ordered it last week and expect it to arrive next week. Crossing my fingers that installation of the driver goes well and that there won't be any compatibility issues with my computer and software. If it all comes together nicely, I know I'll enjoy how much it will speed up my creatiion process without sacrificing the originality of all my non-sculptural artwork.
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