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This month’s feature is Weddings. I recently finished my third wedding package and have just started on a fourth. Since these have been consuming a great deal of effort I think they deserve a chapter.
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California Poppies Elizabeth Alcamo & Al Candia
The drawing is of two California Poppies which are a favorite of my niece, Elizabeth and her husband Al. This was my first venture into color in a long time. When I’ve tried color in the past I’ve felt like I spent so much effort into getting the colors exactly right that I’ve lost track of the drawing. I did this one by getting as many pictures of this flower as possible and then cutting and pasting and moving them on the computer until I liked them. I then did a pen and ink drawing by looking at the computer screen. I used to feel like I was in a tunnel when I tried this from photographs but this method seemed better. I then scanned the drawing and did the coloring on the computer. When I’ve tried coloring on the computer in the past I’ve been unhappy with the lack of brushstrokes but I like the way these turned out. Click here to see the photo.
I was also one of two officiants at this wedding. After Al’s aunt Trudy and I swore to uphold the Constitution of the State of California we became Deputy Commissioners of Marriage for one day. We legally could have married anyone in the State of California on that day. I tried to drum up some business but got no other takers. Click here to see the entire package for this wedding. |
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Church of the Ascension Tanna Alford and Adam Borrell
While they were undergraduates at Carnegie Mellon, Adam and Tanna had apartments across the street from the church that their wedding would be held in. I asked Adam to take photos of the church and I put three of them together. There was a pole in the foreground that had to be removed. I drew this one off the computer screen as well. I now have a feed from the computer to a large screen television and I can sit across the room and get a more natural feel. Click here to see the photo.
The exterior walls of this church are very dark because of layers of smoke from the steel mill days in Pittsburgh. Click here to see the entire package for this wedding.
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Sailors Patricia Alcamo and Bill McCulloch
This was my first wedding invitation. I told my niece, Patricia, she could pick any drawing to use for her invitation. She and Bill are sailors so I suggested this drawing of Duck Creek in Wellfleet. I think the church in the background and the striped tent give it a wedding hint. Patricia convinced me to add a sailboat so I put together the one at the right. It’s a combination of a boat from the drawing we used for the “save the date” and a sketch of the two of them based on a photo from a race. Click to see the entire package for this wedding.
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Original drawing Filled in and thickened Patricia & BIl |
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The card was folded so that the couple’s name appeared below the drawing when the card was closed. |
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All material copyright 2008 Neil Borrell |
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