Do you know your A-B-Cs?

A is for Azalea  B is for Begonia  C is for Columbine
D is for Daffodil  E is for Echinacea  G is for Gerbera….

Hey, wait a minute… something’s not right there.

I have been trying to upload the images in my Floral Alphabet series in the proper order, but when I sat down to the drawing table, I hit a snag. For “F” I’d chosen the tall and elegant foxglove plant, which had worked out wonderfully in another drawing. However, I’d redesigned the template I was going to use for the series so that it was more square-shaped, and I just could not come up with a solution I was really happy with to frame such a tall flower in the allowed space and have it fit in with the rest of them.

So I’m starting “F” over from scratch, but I didn’t want that to hold up the rest of the series. It will show up sometime later, after I’ve decided on what flower will represent it. Right now I’m leaning toward fuschia… what do you think?

On a side note, if you’re reading this, you probably know I use RedBubble.com to display and sell my art, including the Floral Alphabet series. Well, they’ve done some major remodeling over there and while I’m still adjusting to some of the changes, I do like this: it’s much easier for people who want to buy things to preview what’s on offer for sale from my portfolio, like all of the stickers, all of the shirts, all of the greeting cards, and so on.

I’ve also been slowly-but-surely adding some new products to my Zazzle store, in anticipation of the holidays. Things like customizable photo-cards, address labels, and stamps. As always, if there are any images from this blog you’d like to see on an item in the store that’s not currently offered, please let me know!

Simply Snowflakes Photo Greeting Card Option 2 card
Simply Snowflakes Photo Greeting Card Option 2 by critterwings

Simply Snowflakes Vertical Photo Card Option 1 photocard
Simply Snowflakes Vertical Photo Card Option 1 by critterwings

Simply Snowflakes Address Labels label
Simply Snowflakes Address Labels by critterwings

Sales at RedBubble and Zazzle

Chinese Zodiac calendar 2011 at RedBubble.com

If you read this blog, you know I have artwork on RedBubble.com, a site that is both a gallery and a place to buy things. This week they are having a sale on their excellent calendars, including a few with art by yours truly.

If you buy 3 calendars you get 15% off; if you buy 6 or more you get 25% off! There’s no code, the discount automatically shows up in your shopping cart, but only until Thursday Oct 14.

Here’s a little something to sweeten the pot: if you want a calendar made of any combo of the images I have online (in this blog and at RedBubble) just let me know by Monday and I’ll put them together into a calendar for you to order!

Their calendars are pretty sweet; they have a wire ring binding with a built-in hanger, and the prints are crisp and bright. Here’s one of last year’s calendars for example.

Chinese Zodiac calendar 2010

 

Chinese Zodiac calendar 2010, interior

But wait, there’s more! If you want a calendar, but need a different size or style, I also have the Chinese Zodiac calendars for sale at my Zazzle store, where there are plenty of options to customize them to your liking. And Zazzle is having their calendars on sale too: use coupon code  2011CALENDAR at checkout to get 30% off the price of any calendar, now through November 4.

If you’re not in the market for calendars, Zazzle still has something for you. In honor of Columbus day, use coupon code 1492COLUMBUS to get 14.92% off your total order through October 11. See details here, and remember, at both RedBubble and Zazzle you can mix-and-match products from different artists and even make your own custom items and they’ll all apply to the same deal!

A new series begins

All summer I’d been planning on drawing an alphabet of flowers — I even posted the “sketch” versions here already. Now the final drawings are taking shape, and as I finish each one I’m posting them to my RedBubble site, as prints, cards, T-shirts and stickers (stickers are one of the options within “T-shirts”… yes, I know it doesn’t really make sense but there ya go) I have about half of them drawn on paper, and the first batch are scanned and being colored.

Speaking of RedBubble, they’re having an excellent sale on calendars this week, more details in the next post….