Still Life with Flowers: A Design Quiz By Judi Kauffman for The Queen’s Ink

Here’s a design quiz for you: Which of the following inspired today’s tutorial?
A. Bobbleheads
B. Charlie Brown and Lucy
C. Picasso
D. All of the above

If you guessed ‘D’ you get a gold star!

When I received the set of Maxi Moon Garden Mix and the set of four vases by Kae Pea from RubberMoon I thought it would be fun to combine them. There are many flowers small enough to create a still life with realistic scale, but I wanted to go for a very different effect - intentionally choosing large flowers so the proportions are exaggerated, just like abstract art, cartoons, and those wonderful little bobblehead figurines.

I created bookmarks and lots of cards, including one where I cut a vase into two pieces to make a short vase and a bowl (below).

Now here’s a challenge for you: Stamp a still life or scene that uses elements that are not in scale. Do some fussy cutting, lots of coloring and doodling! Make bookmarks, cards, or work on pages in an art journal.

Here are more projects for inspiration -

SUPPLIES:

• Maxi Moon Garden Mix stamps (RubberMoon)
• Vases by Kae Pea (RubberMoon)
• Markers
• Colored pencils
• Pens (Pigma Micron and Gelly Roll White - Sakura of America)
• Cardstock in solid colors
• Patterned papers
• Adhesive/glue of choice
• Fine point scissors