The Third Street Sisterhood of Lepidoptera Illustrators’ Wash and Wear Bus Tour of Europe
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
The Third Street Sisterhood of Lepidoptera Illlustrators Wash and Wear Bus Tour of Europe
Graphite, chalk pastel and old canceled postage stamps on paper. 8.5 x 11 inches
The sisters opted for a wash and wear style that would adapt to any climate…. and luckily too, because it was to be a lengthy trip… and in no particular order.
They arrived home looking as fresh as the day they left!
Well, no, this isn’t a true story; this is a page from my sketchbook. Imagine how many butterfly illustrators there would be in one city in order to have a club for just one street!
I have been spending a fair bit of time working in my sketch book, lately. I have a few sketchbooks, this drawing is in the one that I work out my ideas and problem solve in. This drawing was a rough idea that became more and more embellished.
I cut old cancelled postage stamps and collaged them into the drawing. They were from a rumpled old kraft envelope of doubles I had amassed during my childhood stamp collecting days. Sometimes being a pack rat is a good thing. It felt wrong to cut the stamps up, though… just like how you weren’t supposed to cut into National Geographic magazines or the set of Encyclopedia Britannicas for school projects.
