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I'm doing a bit of studio tidying and coming across abandoned projects - the ones that never quite gelled. Like Lemonade.
I'd carved the lemon slices and then a batch of strawberries. Plus a few blueberries.
I tried a number of ideas - like below - printing the slices as grapefruit. Here I had fun folding the notecard off-center and lining up another print on the inside flap.
Also played up the circular shape and used a Japanese cutter to make a batch of round gift tags.
Printed the stamp as lemons, oranges and grapefruit in rounds and crescents.
Then with the strawberry stamp:
I know at one point I also tried working in a few of the blueberries but, unfortunately, seem not to have kept any samples. I keep coming back to this composition (below) but still not enthused. Second photo shows the back of the notecard as well.
For now, everything is getting filed away again but, who knows, one day I'll have a glimmer of an idea and pull out the stamps and try something new with them. Although, maybe this idea was doomed from the start - since it's a lemon! (Sorry, couldn't resist...)
I like looking back on old work and thinking, next post, I might share a few more ideas that didn't make the cut. Meanwhile, thank you so much for following my art adventure. See you soon!
