Invitation Design
Posted: April 18, 2012 Filed under: Personal, Sketchbook, Travel | Tags: art, design, drawing, envelope, font, invitation, layout, Personal, response card, sketch, Travel, wedding 2 CommentsThis October I will be traveling to Italy again, but this time it will be for my wedding. We rented a villa in Florence for a day to host the ceremony and reception. We decided a wedding planner would be key between the language barrier and the long distance, but the one thing I knew I wanted to do for the wedding was create my invitations. It would be the piece of paper that would join all our close friends and family together for the most important event in my life, and I wanted the design to be memorable. Something that truly fits with our personalities, the location, and the look and feel of the event. I sketched the villa illustration, created a font-treatment and color scheme, laid out the invitation and response card, chose paper stock, envelopes, and seals, and sent it off to the printer. A few days ago we got back the finished product, and I’m very pleased. They turned out just the way I wanted them to look. Now we’re ready to move forward with the next step in the wedding planning process… menu choices.
Midnight in Paris – My Trip And The Movie
Posted: March 7, 2012 Filed under: Inspiration, Movies and TV shows, Personal, Travel | Tags: Eiffel, Film, France, life, Midnight, Paris, Personal, photo, photography, review, Travel, vacation, Woody Allen 13 Comments
Paris from over the river Seine
- Photo by Brian Cleary.
“Midnight in Paris” is an inspiringly different movie. The first five minutes gives a magnificent ode to the city of Paris. It began with a lowly clarinet, sounding a slow, jazz tune. The scene transitions from street to street, monument to monument, from day to night to rain. Paris is beautiful in the rain. It glistens and shines, as if covered by billions of lit diamonds. It is so beautiful that it brought me to tears several times. And I feel that the director and writer, Woody Allen, mirrored that beauty in the film.
Eiffel Tower – ipad sketch
Posted: March 7, 2012 Filed under: Inspiration, Sketchbook, Travel | Tags: art, artwork, color, Eiffel, France, ipad, painting, Paris, Personal, realistic, sketch, Tower, Travel 20 Comments
Eiffel Tower iPad Sketch by Nicole Barker
While I was traveling last year I visited Paris, and the thing that influenced me the most was the Eiffel Tower. In an effort to sketch more in my life, I decided this was the perfect subject matter.
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Nicole M. Cleary 