Mother's Day card for
Habitat For Humanity's Women Build program
graphite, Xerograph, and Windsor & Newton inks on paper
4¾"x 6¼" • 2010
Habitat For Humanity's Women Build program
graphite, Xerograph, and Windsor & Newton inks on paper
4¾"x 6¼" • 2010
Habitat for Humanity Manitoba contacted me to create a Mother's Day card for their Women Build program early in 2010.
My Women Build liaisons wanted daisy-type flowers in reference to their logo and a pink helmet like their signature hard hat, with no other specs but some reference to the simplified human figures in the Habitat logo. I pictured a mixed vase of flowers and brightly-coloured tools, and it occurred to me that a certain shape at a certain angle with a carefully-placed circular form above the rim would form one of those Habitat figures almost exactly; making the glass blue cinched the resemblance.
I tried to keep it as light and fresh as possible, and opted to colour it using the deep, saturated tones of Windsor & Newton's dye-based, shellac-bound drawing inks. The drawing itself was done in graphite, which was Xeroxed to add some texture and increase the contrast. The piece was drawn at print size for an A6 greeting card, so the art as shown here is magnified quite radically. The original borders on miniature, with an almost jewel-like quality that translated to print quite nicely.
