Thursday, February 26, 2009

Postage Stamp Piece










Mind map, from sketchbook—favorites of stamps that appealed to me for one reason or another.
















Thumbnail groupings, looking for the right combination.
















Final drawing mock-ups with text.
Graphite on tracing paper, manipulated in Photoshop & Illustrator.



 










Final version of stamps.
Watercolor paintings (each stamp 6x6") on Arches Aquarelle 300lb. cold press paper (this stuff is great!), digitally re-sized & manipulated in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.














Final version: post-critique. Slight shading added in upper right stamp, 42USA text reduced, and text blocks shifted slightly, drop shadow density increased, color block background removed.

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