245. Pickles and Sketch dailies: 901 to 903

My Pickles pattern is up for voting at spoonflower! The voting page is in the right side bar here: http://www.spoonflower.com/contests/302 and the designs are presented randomly on that page. The voting ends Wednesday May 20th. Thank you to everyone who votes!

The rest of the pictures are for Sketch Dailies : 901 to 903.

I also post the sketches daily on my Tumblr: http://svaethdesigns.tumblr.com/

106. A Birthday card and Sketches: days 73 to 75

     This is the first of three birthday cards I plan to make. I wanted to keep these fairly simple because they will each go with a set of six paper flowers. I plan to make the 'Happy Birthday' on the last two cards a bit darker and each will have a different colored set of balloons. I think I should have the last two cards and last three purple roses done this weekend. After that I just need to finish the lilies. So I am thinking that I should have the entire set of flowers and the cards put together the weekend after valentines day. Which would luckily put me way ahead of time since the first Birthday isn't until the beginning of March and the next two are not until the beginning of April. When I finish all of the cards and flowers I plan to take better pictures of everything grouped together.

     Once I finish the birthday stuff I have a few ideas for 2014 calendar designs I want to start. I also have a few ideas for a small Easter project. But I am not completely sure about it, I may not have time to actually finish it before Easter. I have to just see what is going on and play it by ear.

     The last three pictures are for sketch daily: days 73 to 75.

    Soceity6 is also having another artist promotion. If you use this link: http://society6.com/SVaeth?promo=2c415d there will be free shipping in my Society6 store until February 10th at midnight Pacific time.

103. Type, Paper, and a large batch of sketches

     I have been working on various birthday present ideas. I think I am at least getting close to narrowing what I am going to make down and hopefully start soon. The first picture is for the cards I am going to make.  I am not sure if I am going to hand draw all of the cards or work up  'Happy Birthday' in Illustrator, print them and then do either quilled balloons or candles on them. I am still working on some of them letters, but I am getting closer to what I want them to look like.

     The second picture would be another part of the presents I am making. I am thinking about making a set of paper flowers, three being roses from my Halloween Post and three being lilies. I am  working on making the paper lilies to go with them. I am still working on exactly how to make them; I still have to make the center bits for them. The picture at least shows a quick test to see how they would turn out. I haven't really thought about the stems yet, but I will at least start dying the paper for the roses. I am going to make most of these flowers red, pink, purple, and yellow. I wont be using actual newspaper for these but I might use blank news print or some spare drawing paper I have.

     The rest of the pictures are a large batch of sketch dailies. I am close to doing a sketch everyday for fifty days, I am hoping that I can continue to make time to do one everyday for a year in total. Which would end up being around Thanksgiving.

     The last thing I want to mention is that Soceity6 is having another artist promotion. If you use this link: http://society6.com/SVaeth?promo=38c229  there will be free shipping in my Society6 store until January 13th at midnight Pacific. ( Society6 excludes free shipping on Framed Art Prints, Stretched Canvases and Throw Pillows with insert.)
     I will also be removing my 2013 calendar designs Night sky, Hourglass, and Notes from my Society6 store on February 28th. I have a few ideas about 2014 designs, but I wont start working on them until I finish the birthday stuff.