No. 3: Traditional Dry Stone Wall

This was the simplest drawing so far, and does it show? Is it enough? Although there are only so many ways to do a line drawing of a bunch of rocks piled on top of each other!

Who-ker Improvement

Is it, an improvement?
Ah well, what would really cement its who-ker-ness would be colouring in the sails the traditional deep red/brown colour...but I am curtailed by my artistic determination to keep the images to simple line drawings. Amn't I?!
But dammit anyway if that little sailor-man doesn't look absolutely ridiculous, pffffff :(

Next Up...

Ummmm, this is meant to be a drawing of a traditional Irish sailing boat called a Hooker ("who-ker"!), but it looks kinda like it could be ANY old sailing boat, right? Hmm.

Etsy!

Oh-emm-gee!

I am now officially an Etsy Seller...actually I have been for a while, but these few pictures below appear so y'know, I ain't bragging!
Hopefully that will soon change - I'm reading up on all the hints and tips for good photographs and remain confident that THAT is all that is wrong with my product. Ha!

Oh, I'll have to get back to the shop name - firstly I don't quite know what my shop name is, and secondly it'd be NICE to have it looking all nice and whatnot before divulging that information :p

RESULT

Well, it isn't that dramatic really, in fact it's quite anti-climactic - or is it just that I am AWFUL at lighting for photographs?!
Anyway, these are a few attempts at different coloured cards and papers. I also had a simpler idea for the layout - I mean, I have limited ambition and imagination so I'm just printing the images and text using my cheap old laser printer, which obviously doesn't print on card. Sooooo, I want to combine the printed paper with the card, and I did it by cutting slots in the card and weaving the paper through to hold it in place; in these photographed cards there are 5 cut slots, so that the image is framed on the front of the card and the message is framed on the inside of the card, using one piece of paper printed both sides and no glue or other fiddly bits. The simpler version has just one slot cut into the crease of the card, and the paper slipped through.

I thought I was being smart and creative...but is it just silly?!

Finished Product?

I wonder?
Shape, check; vanished shadowy lines, check; end of my patience, absolute check!

Step 2: Refined

Because in fact the trees out here in Connemara have a really distinctive shape, hunched away from the winds off the sea...and I think this is a closer match to that shape.
The funky shadowy lines, however, I can't pretend have any artistic relevence - they are left behind by my wrinkly tracing paper and cheap scanner! Modern technology my tóin!

Step 1: Connemara tree card

So, it began with this - my first attempt at a Connemara-esque wind sculpted tree, my idea being that I will make and sell cards with Irish language messages and a couple of hand drawn images to make them authentic-like.

Another new start...

This is the equivilent of repeatedly turning the key in the thus far unresponsive car of my blog-life and hoping that THIS time there'll be a little life in the engine...

So, out with 'Long Winding Binding' and in with 'paperpennies'...I am zooming out from my focus on binding, and onto general crafts (with a preference for paper!), with the intention of eventually getting around to a few different things.

Like following this post with an actual, legitimate, constructive entry, covering more than my inability to post sn entry.

Lord!

Fingers crossed :D