Martha Laurens

Jan 3, 20231 min

Gilding Leftover: Keep it or Throw it?

One useful leftover would work wonder to your artwork!maybe this has become part of my job these days especially when clients asked to fix something that has been printed, ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐—œ ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐˜! The word behind the name in scroll was โ€˜From Usโ€™

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ: I did not know if the paper they gave would work with any inks that I have in specific colours or if I could find any papers that match with their cardโ€™s colour.

If last time was a glossy cover, this time is a commercial greeting card. I only had five hours to finish the works (there were three designs in total for this greeting card) and I am working on other two projects at the moment.

๐—”๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด: I personally wonโ€™t call this as calligraphy, but it is a craft. It challenged my creativity, and for the writing, it is part of lettering. Was it because of the tool? No. It was because I was drawing and doodling ๐Ÿคช

๐ŸŽ„๐ŸŽ„๐ŸŽ„ This year has been filled with full surprises in my life, and Iโ€™m grateful with whatever showed on my plate. Live your life to the fullest! ๐—ช๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐—ฎ ๐—ท๐—ผ๐˜†๐—ณ๐˜‚๐—น ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—›๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐˜† ๐—›๐—ผ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜†๐˜€!

~ Itโ€™s me.. taking a break ๐Ÿฅต๐Ÿœ๏ธ๐Ÿ˜Œ

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