Cut paper 02: Sedgefield

Cutting away the second cut-paper illustration - Sedgefield showgrounds in Greensboro, NC.
The work in progress so far:

equestrette!

After much designing and figuring out codes, CSS, plugins, security, and actually getting the website hacked at the very beginning, we are live! I had never worked with self hosted site before, and even though it was very time consuming to learn all of the techno, it has been very enjoyable to be able to design exactly what we wanted and to actually make the changes and tweaks to get the results that we had planned. So thank you Wordpress  hackers, forums, help community and Wordpress camp -which was an eye opener that made me believe that I could do this.
This is a very exciting project, one that has been in the works for quite some time. And we are very pleased with the results, still fighting the urge to keep tweaking little bits here and there. It was time to get it going, so now to the "fun" part.
I wish the design & implementing process could have been documented with pics along the way, but it wasn't. So here are the before and after:

 The twentyeleven theme was used as the base for creating our child theme

Our finished site equestrette, I think you should check it. 

Cut paper illustrations

Very happy with the finished Blowing Rock showground map cutout! Now off to printing and organizing a good selection of products to showcase.

Possible colors, still testing...

Process: Blowing Rock cut paper project

Step by step... managed to photograph part of the work in progress.

equestrette logo

The idea for this logo was to keep it fresh, simple, graceful and graphic. I wanted to create a roundness on the top part of the letters to mimic a riding helmet, and the overall basic shape that forms both the letters and the horse's head mimic an elongated stirrup. Transparencies were used to limit the amount of detail and to use only two basic shapes to create the horse's head and all of its features.
This is the process I took for the creation of the equestrette logo. Sketches on paper first, then on to the computer to further develop the ideas and finalize the designs.

new treasury

My Calendula collage was included today in the Etsy treasury Happy Summer!

etsy treasury

My jumper print has been featured in a showjumping treasury!

I have been gone for the past few months, neglecting my artwork and missing it so so much. Between being literally away for Christmas holidays, horse shows, and just being plain busy with taxes, business paperwork, oh, and trying to set up a brand new little project (which I'm pretty excited about), I have not worked on anything that I can honestly say I'm truly happy with. I have started lots of new projects and ideas, made mock-ups and samples, but in the end it is just a bit depressing not seeing the results I expected, so I move on to the next thing. I guess I'm just in a little creative funk trying to find my way… perfect for me or I won't be happy.