Nov 9, 2014

As times go by - week 3 - Make Art That Sells

This was already the third week of part B of the inspiring Make Art That Sells course. We learned about the scrapbooking market. This is again a totally new market for me. I'm not sure if I made something appropriate for scrapbooking, but the challenge was also to create something you like yourself.

And I am not a scrapbook maker / user. Scrapbook people are making memory / photo albums using all kind of  'icons',  to brighten up their pages. The assignment  was to create a vintage correspondence themed scrapbook collection, which incorporates clocks.





As usual on Monday we first got  a theme to draw, which were vintage clocks this week. So I googled and drew some of the gathered material.




On Wednesday we received the assignment. To create a scrapbook collection, not only using vintage clocks, but it also had to be a correspondence themed collection... This was a bit confusing at first. What have clocks to do with correspondence?

I first wrote down some associations with time. Such as: quality time, creating time, timeless,  no time, anytime, as times go by, summertime, time flies, tea-time, coffee-time, bed-time, spare time, slow down, time for change, take your time, present time...

I didn't think a lot about it, but began to draw. I started with this meditation girl: 




Meditation has everything to do with time and timelessness. My first association with quality time.

I also began to draw some icons with the correspondence theme. As I was busy drawing and putting the icons in one file, the two themes surprisingly came together very well.





I show you some of my drawings / icons a bit bigger, so you can see them better.
I loved these envelope parade I made:






And ofcourse I also drew some  pigeon carriers. Nice to see how he is also associated with time. No quick e-mails, but a pigeon who has to fly all the way to bring the post, which takes time...






I may be new to this Market, but I loved the assignment! It was quite a challenge to fit all the icons into a nice composition. I'm happy with the result. I posted on Flickr a bigger version of the assignment.What you think of it?

Next week we gonna look to the editorial market. Also interesting. Will be continued!


2 comments:

Marylinn Kelly said...

I continue to be charmed by your work and admire your focus on becoming a highly successful commercial artist. Thank you for sharing your thought process as you tackled this assignment. Wishing you much (more) success. xo

Unknown said...

ik kan me voorstellen dat je plezier beleefde aan het maken van dit vel met plaatjes en teksten.
leuk dat jij bij het associeren mediteren opkwam toen je aan quality-tijd dacht: ik beaam wel dat het zitten plezierig kan zijn.

goed gedaan weer deze opdracht!