6.10.2009

quick interjection --

look! Gale Larson, who is fabulous, paid me to create a baby shower invitation, pooh bear-themed if possible. i am a huge fan of Ernest Howard Shepard, the artist who first drew Winnie the Pooh. so i decided to go with that style. the line drawing actually his original, then i had fun in photoshop to color it (tangent: did you know that Shepard drew all of the illustrations in pen and ink, then when he was super old, like in his 90's or something, he was asked to color them? so he did! crazy. i think that's the story, according to Bethanne's history of illustration class). Gale's co-worker Lisa whipped out the poem in about a minute, i then designed the little card, gale printed it on cute little 5x7's and that was that!

i changed the info on the card in case any crazies come across my blog. sorry, folks. no stalking available here.

ps, how do you like the new blog header?

9 comments:

All About Austins said...

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the blog header and I think you should learn to draw like that so you can make me a BIG one of those to hang on the wall of a future baby room! PLEASE?!

Alie said...

Cute, cute, cute invitation!

Also, love the blog header. I'm still coming up with ideas for mine...

K said...

Love the invite, and love the header. Now, here's a question - your hand font - is it a font, or did you draw the text in, so the whole thing is an integrated graphic image? I'm doing a review for a company that allows you to do custom fonts that are actually engine searchable, which is interesting -

Anyway, all nice.

kwistin said...

Thank you, my friends!

And yes. The hand font is my handwriting and I wrote with a stylus on a Wacom tablet (LOVE that thing!) So it is an integrated image.

That's interesting; what company is it?

Define Benjamin & Heather said...

Ya! dont you love the summer days! Ya I heard benton paul a while back and i love his songs.no, it wasnt my first time, but it was way cool since I was in the front row and it was really low key. by the way I love your header, it is adorable. thanks for following my blog!

Debbie said...

So is that your dream house? Great job on the invite. E.H. would be proud.

Whitney Bonnett Taylor said...

the song I did have on my blog by Owl City was Rainbow Veins! I love them too!

Whitney Bonnett Taylor said...

i like the invite too! Cute! The old pooh bear style is cute... i'm not a big fan of the way it looks today.

joe said...

I like it I like it I like it!

Both the Invite and the Header!

Good work. I just need an excuse now for me to try and put something cool together!