Apriltara
Design That Works!Archive for pen and ink
New Business Cards!!!
I am so excited about these!!! A couple weeks ago my best bud Steph offered to get them for me and they just came in yesterday! I had to whip up a design real quick and wanted to do something that projected not only my own personal style, but the kind of work that I would like to do in the future! I think they turned out really well and I will be using them for everything! 
I am also reconfiguring my website/blog to match as you can already tell.
Newest Project
A few years ago….ok, 6 years ago I did 3 pieces that were basically Pen and Ink crosshatch portraits of various family members. The first I won honorable mention in the MAG Nightingale Exhibition and has (unfortunately) been lost. This is all I have left of it….this pic:
It is of my aunt Gina and her daughter Kaylin at Christmas 2000-2001. Shortly after I completed these two pieces:
(Above) This is of my cousins (left to right) Abby, Katie, and Lara Beth.
(Above) This is of my cousin Sandra bathing a baby in the kitchen sink.
What I loved most about these is that they are real life images of family and children. I also LOVE doing crosshatch, which is why I did them so large. They are along 24″ x 32″ in size, give or take. After coming across another pic of some of my family, I decided to try another….
This one will be (again) of Abby and Lara Beth, but with their older brother Nick. I was so taken with the image, I asked my cousin Dee if it was o.k. for me to use the image and she was happy to oblige. So now I am doing the preliminary work….I grid the image (because I will essentially be redrawing it larger) and print it out in 3 versions (color, bw, cutout bw). I do this because I will be recreating it in bw/grey scale…so I find it helpful to see the basic shades of grey in a cutout shape, then in basic bw which provides a little more detail, and then the full color for additional details. I will probably do this one in a larger size too, I think it shows off the crosshatch better. I have done smaller, but details are usually lost.
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