Looking back on the art I’ve been making for the past few months I’ve done quite a bit of digital work. I started really delving into Procreate when we went on Vacation earlier this year, and I haven’t stopped exploring the possibilities since. While planning for our vacation in late February and early March of his year I opted to take only my camera and iPad. No knitting, no sketch book, no art supplies. This was the first time I’d ever taken only my iPad, with the intent of creating art while on a vacation. I had a plan to limit my supplies and challenge myself to only using procreate. My plan worked, I learned a lot about procreate and I enjoyed to process. The biggest thing I learned was how very freeing being able to sit on the couch or the porch at night with just an iPad and a pencil was. There was no figuring out where to put supplies, or how to juggle a sketchbook on my lap, or being confined to the table. The other bonus ...
When I was building a name for my handmade card business I was looking for a name that would encompass my cards, art, and photography. What did these three things have in common? How could I tie them all together under one brand?
I'm a list maker. I sat and made lists of words and combinations of words until I hit on something that really struck a chord with me. My art, my card, and my photography all had ink in common. It's kind of obvious with the art and cards that there is ink involved, but how did it tie into photography. While I realize traditional photography is developed, the way I was going to be using it, as a card medium, it would be printed with ink.
The inspirations came along kind of naturally as a bit of alliteration of sorts. Serendipitous really, because I wanted to inspire people to put art in their lives and in their mailboxes. I wanted my customers to feel inspired to share my work with other people in their lives.
While Inked Inspirations had nothing to do with tattoos, it is often mistaken as a tattoo parlor from the first glance of the business card. Something I have come to peace with and am willing to point out in repetition to people that I make art and cards, I don't ink people.
All of that said, there is a piece of my art on the arm of someone very important in my life. She asked permission to take one of my pen and ink pieces and ask a tattoo artist if they could render it on her arm. The piece turned out beautiful and I feel honored that she chose to have my art on her body.
The inspirations came along kind of naturally as a bit of alliteration of sorts. Serendipitous really, because I wanted to inspire people to put art in their lives and in their mailboxes. I wanted my customers to feel inspired to share my work with other people in their lives.
While Inked Inspirations had nothing to do with tattoos, it is often mistaken as a tattoo parlor from the first glance of the business card. Something I have come to peace with and am willing to point out in repetition to people that I make art and cards, I don't ink people.
So while I'm a paper artist and Inked Inspirations is all about happy mail and affordable art, there is a tiny tie back to the world of tattoos.
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