Name Tags Anyone!

The opportunity to create the name tags for our guild was afforded to me this year. And I must say I was excited about doing it; what a fun project! Then as I started it dawned on me, I am creating lettering for people who really know lettering. I confess a little anxiety came over me, but I worked through and this is what emerged.

The background was created as a watercolor painting. It was photographed and taken into photoshop. The guild name was hand written, photographed and added to the photoshop file. The file was then sized correctly and printed. After I printed the tags, I began to experiment with gouache color and consistency and realized the paper I printed on was not going to hold an edge. So I tried my color pencils and sure enough that was the ticket. The first color combination I really liked but it did not contrast enough with the back ground.

So the colors were modified to show stronger against the background.