Lettering: Lemon

A look at the process of creating this lettering for “Lemon.”

While researching how citrus fit into the Rococo aesthetic, I found out that Versailles had a garden of orange and lemon trees. I love thinking about color in terms of temperature; after trying some cooler yellow palettes, I knew I wanted to bring more golds into this piece. You can see the original sketch below.

Inking the sketched design.

Here are a few more pieces from my lettering portfolio:

Wind and Water: Creating in Blues

I’ve been working in a lot of blues lately, and I’m so happy with how this piece came out. I paired this lettering that I created for a client with a portrait from a my sketchbook. Using deep indigo hues to offset the lighter, delicate florals made me think of wind and water.

Here is the finished piece:

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Closeup detail.

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Closeup detail.

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Here are a few more blue pieces from my portfolio:

New Floral Dreams Portrait

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I finished a new portrait!

The colors were inspired by fruit - I love working with saturation in the edges to get the shadows to glow!

I wanted to play off my Dreaming in Flowers portrait by using these purple jewel tones, but bringing in some warmer, orange hues.

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