As you might remember, I declared last summer to be the summer of play. And it was the best decision! I just let my creative mind wonder and experiment with different mediums and painting subjects. It was really nice and liberating.

So during that summer, whenever I had a spare minute or on the weekends, I experimented with different mediums and painting subjects.

These beauty illustrations started as fun sketches and a practice of my observational drawing skills. I wanted to focus on painting from „life“. And thankfully, I had different perfume bottles at hand. 

I am proud to show you the gorgeous letterpress cards that Mary (IG: @poppypress.studio, website: www.poppypressstudio.com) and I have created together!  We have created one birthday card and a thank you card, for you to choose from. Carefully printed on high-quality cotton paper, these greeting cards really are fine art cards.

In the past decade, lettering has become increasingly popular and with it also different ways of forming beautiful letters, such as brush lettering and (modern) calligraphy.

Maybe you’ve admired the beautifully written words, too. Or maybe you’ve felt intimidated to get started on your lettering or calligraphy journey.

I want to help you to rid yourself from these fears and tell you 4 things that you should know before starting to learn lettering or calligraphy.