This is my third illustrations for the "Bug" magazines, but all with the wonderful Art Director Suzanne Beck. This project was to illustrate a recipe, a Welsh scone recipe and I had a lot of fun researching all things Welsh, like their amazing textile patterns...
I'm not insulting the Welsh, it actually is called that.
I really wanted to find a way to get these gals, with their traditional top hats above lacy bonnets in, wondering...
how did that tradition evolve exactly?
Then it was a weekend of sketching...
and brainstorming on paper, moving things around in Photoshop and sending ideas to New York on a Sunday, when apparently me, in the Four Corners, Sue and her editor had nothing better to do then to email back and forth. Have I said how much I love the internet and what it does for me!
Really loved that pottery, though the poem is about having a picnic...
Oh, how many antique lunch boxes did I pin on pinterest.com?
Kept trying to get a spider, a bug or a mushroom in there, just wasn't working. Then Sue pulled me from my fixations and suggested the rainbow and the jam. Uhhh, don't even want to think how long it would have been before I thought of jam, my brain was still on getting old women with top hats in...
When everyone was happy with the sketch, I went to appliqueing and stitching and ta.....da....
The Guady pottey had to go, but I kept the Gaudy pattern for the tea towel in the pail. The design on the picnic cloth is from the textile above and was X stitched on actual X stitched fabric, though I did four X's per square. The jar was done with a sheer tulle type fabric and the jam on the scones are french knots.
It was another fun and challenging project, did something better this time and of course still could point out things I will do differently next time. Let's see, I've collected a BABYBUG, a LADYBUG and a SPIDER. But still need a CRICKET.
Yay! It looks great!
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