mayfly_78 - New Art - Finished my Woodland Creatures Quartet.

New Art - Finished my Woodland Creatures Quartet.

Jan. 16th, 2013 at 7:52 PM

I finished my Woodland Creatures Quartet! I am so happy. I love it when I finish things and I can just sit back and admire them. And I love doing series. That is why I adore illustrating fics so much.

I already showed you my sparrow, or birdie as I call him, and my squirrel. Now it's time to share my fox and my owl.

Pretty, aren't they?

They also look gorgeous framed in my handy Ikea frame:

I am so happy about my nice neat little series. Here they are all together:

I have them in my etsy shop as both a pack of four greeting cards and a pack of four postcards.

Later on I plan on doing a Jungle Animals Quartet and an Arctic Animals Quartet. Which will bring me up to twelve animals. Which.... Would mean I would have the perfect number for making a calendar! Guess who inspired me to make a calendar?

I am so happy with my little animals that I have also been thinking about using them as covers for the handmade notebooks I am thinking of making and printing them on tote bags. What do you say?

Poll #1890504 woodland
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

Where should I print my animals linocuts?

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Nowhere.
0 (0.0%)
Greeting cards and postcards only.
3 (8.6%)
Notebooks might be cool.
7 (20.0%)
Tote bags are an intriguing idea.
3 (8.6%)
I want to see them as wall prints too.
7 (20.0%)
Have you thought of fabric patches?
1 (2.9%)
And don't forget the calendar!
5 (14.3%)
Don't look at me. I'm here for the ticky boxes.
1 (2.9%)
Just give me ticky boxes.
2 (5.7%)
Tickyyy!!!
6 (17.1%)

By the way you don't have many day left to leave your name if you want to win one of my first ever multi-colour block prints. Just comment here if you are interested.

Also, have you voted in my poll yet?

Comments

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kjp_013

Jan. 16th, 2013 08:06 pm (UTC)

They're gorgeous! And they look so good in a simple frame :)

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mayfly_78

Jan. 17th, 2013 11:56 pm (UTC)

Thank you!

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nursedarry

Jan. 16th, 2013 08:34 pm (UTC)

I LOVE THOSE!!!!!

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mayfly_78

Jan. 17th, 2013 11:56 pm (UTC)

Thanks!

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birdsofshore

Jan. 16th, 2013 08:38 pm (UTC)

The owl! Divine. And the fox is wonderful, quite sinister, in a good way.

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mayfly_78

Jan. 17th, 2013 11:57 pm (UTC)

Thank you! I posted your cards this morning!

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omi_ohmy

Jan. 16th, 2013 08:57 pm (UTC)

Oh, these are lovely! And I have some of those Ikea frames, sitting around all unloved. *plots* *visits etsy shop*

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mayfly_78

Jan. 17th, 2013 11:57 pm (UTC)

Thank you! Ikea frames are so very very tempting aren't they?

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delorispea

Jan. 16th, 2013 10:56 pm (UTC)

Would you be offering different colours with the same design or just these set colours?

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mayfly_78

Jan. 17th, 2013 11:59 pm (UTC)

More or less these colours. They are hand-printed one by one, not digitally made. Making more colour options would be too much hard work for something so simple.

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nenne

Jan. 17th, 2013 07:31 am (UTC)

They're great! :) A calender sounds like a great idea. :)

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mayfly_78

Jan. 17th, 2013 11:59 pm (UTC)

Thank you! I have 8 more animals to do before I'm ready for my calendar.

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capitu

Jan. 17th, 2013 12:16 pm (UTC)

These are so pretty! I love, love, love the wolf, and the bird. <3

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mayfly_78

Jan. 18th, 2013 12:00 am (UTC)

Thank you! My sister also tells me the fox looks like a wolf. But others see it as a fox. Strange that...

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capitu

Jan. 19th, 2013 12:17 pm (UTC)

:D I think it's because he looks like he's howling to the moon. But I read a lot of creature!fic so I'm biased. ^^ They are lovely. :)

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sugareey

Jan. 17th, 2013 09:55 pm (UTC)

Prints would totally be awesome for this. And greeting cards and postcards.

These would all do wicked well if you had them sold at a stall or a craft faire!

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mayfly_78

Jan. 18th, 2013 12:02 am (UTC)

I'm having a hard time doing the prints. It's not easy find coloured acid free paper, so I thought about using white and printing first the background colour then the animal. But the paper I bought is not working for me. I spent all evening trying to get a couple of good prints, and I'm still not happy with any of them!

I am definitely going to try a market stall once I have enough stock!

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hollys_tree

Jan. 19th, 2013 11:02 am (UTC)

I love the wolf. It's amazing. ♥ I can't wait to see the Arctic Animals Quartet.

I really like the idea of wall prints, though I guess I would prefer them all to have the same background colour then.

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mayfly_78

Jan. 29th, 2013 07:15 pm (UTC)

The arctic animals will come last, after the jungle animals, because I am having a hard time coming up with four suitable animals. Also I'm taking a bit of a break from the animals to work on some other stuff. Like my fest assignments.

I tried them out as wall prints. Because it's hard finding acid free (ie will not fade or change colour with time) coloured paper, I used black paper. But I did add a coloured background with paint first. I made a post on my other blog about my experiences with the papers I tried out and photos of the prints:
http://inkdoodles.com/inkdoodles/experimenting-with-paper-part-1/

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coralines

Jan. 25th, 2013 09:59 am (UTC)

Lovely series you got there. The wolf is my favorite, but they all would look gorgeous as covers for notebooks.
I shall remember to check out your Etsy shop when I'll have some money to spare ;)

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mayfly_78

Jan. 29th, 2013 07:16 pm (UTC)

Thank you! I have made them into small softcover notebooks and put them up in my shop. I will eventually get round to make a post about here too.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Inkdoodles

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demicus

Jan. 30th, 2013 06:57 am (UTC)

They're spectacular framed! I love the sparrow so much. I'm looking forward to the Jungle Animals, & Arctic Animals Quartet.

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mayfly_78

Feb. 6th, 2013 11:37 pm (UTC)

Thank you! I do like them framed too. The rest of my animals have been put on hold for now. I have a lot of other projects I want to work on first. But I will do them as soon as I can!

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