Mother’s Day Cards
As Mother’s Day approaches, I was pressed for time so I did a quick digital collage, where I googled three words I associated with my Mother and then instinctively picked from the results; layering, cutting and pasting as I went. The three phrases I chose were dogwood, horse, and woman in the woods- they just popped into my head. The whole point was not to obsess too much over the images or their meaning. The card was done in about 20 min. About the time you would spend walking to the hallmark store and throwing down $4 on a cheesy greeting card. A good exercise for anyone who needs to loosen up their graphic composition skills.
-Roussa
My approach was the same, but I had a specific vision in mind. Besides being raised in the desert, my mother also spent the early days of her marriage galavanting through the brush and the arid basins of the Nevada desert with my father. They navigated by map and trust as my father prospected the endless ranges in a 60′s Jeep much like the one pictured below.
I don’t remember much of Las Vegas, aside from stories and photographs, but my mom always seemed ready to move back even though our family spent the last 30 years on the West side of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. I thought I would try and give her a some desert for Mother’s Day. Googled photos, Photoshop filters and a simple message was all I needed to bring my mom back to the heat and open expanses of Nevada desert. I printed mine out on a laser printer, glued it to a thicker card stock and popped it in the mail. Done!
-peaker
