I just spilled a 50 gm packet of seed beads all over the exploding drafting board. Hence, I have moved onto the table on the sunporch. Oh for a real studio!
In my continuing quest to have 1,000 projects going on at once, this is my prep work for the revamp of the Delta Air Lines card deck I have. It's in better shape than the Bicycle deck but slightly smaller in width. I will be painting the fronts for these with casein paint and pen and ink on paper. The indices will be hand lettered with my classic wonky calligraphy.
I've traced all cards with my template on light watercolour paper. I found these sheets in an old house we moved into in 1979. Still I carry them about waiting for the perfect opportunity to use them. Apart from a bit of foxing on the edges they are okay. I have labelled them and placed like cards from each suit in a row.
When I'm painting, I'll do a set of a particular cards, say all the Aces, and this will provide some continuity in colouring and lettering. By having them on a sheet I can go over the edges and trim them down later so I get complete coverage and neatness.
The gold paper on the left is wrapping paper I bought last week. It was too modern for the other deck but looks good for this one for the backs.
So, it's going to be freeform and funky--that hand of the artist thing going on. Spontaneous abstract art.