Good Friday almost! I love when the weekend rolls around. It is getting so cold outside. Im starting to become really sentimental. That is what happens to me when it gets cold. Don't know if it some kind of coping mechanism for the death of winter, not sure but don't be alarmed if I start to sound like a sap in these winter months. Just getting it out there so no one feels uncomfortable:)
Faux Bois(woodgrain) is so classic and is so in and is so nice to say. This Faux Bois is a print of an original linocut. We also took the original lino and we placed it on an original watercolor background. I like the variation. Right now I am into blowing up an image really big. This faux Bois would look cool blown up big! That is what I like about making these prints. We can make them really big or really small.
The Queenie's(flowers and pods print) are my fav. I am going to blow up a Queenie into a 20x30 for my house and hang it over my grandmother's vintage sea foam green record cabinet. I want to get a thin brass frame to put my Queenie in. This would also look nice grouped with the faux Bois(woodgrain) or I think the Goldenrod(look in our shop) would pair nicely with it too. This is a print of an original watercolor. I went into making this watercolor thinking, make it neutral. Obviously it is not just a neutral. I love neutral but for some reason it is hard for me to create. I don't know if there is some sort of internal melancholy trying to be neutral or dark and the internal optimist is trying to go bright, it is hard to go straight up neutral when I paint but I'm working on it.
All things Bright and Beautiful(and dark and neutral too),
Sallie Jane Studios
