Swan; Together Forever | Greeting Card | Illustration


It's the first weekend of November, the leaves are starting to change colours quite quick as well as starting to fall off the tree a lot, and the temperature went colder. Getting close to winter!

In the last week of October, my next-door neighbour has got married! A few weeks before their big day, they have asked to look after their cats while they're away for a few days, agreed to do this for them, that's what nice neighbour do, hehehe. Throughout weeks, I thought I should do a handmade wedding greeting card using the painting as my original artwork, quite like a personal handmade.

To use the bird that represents being together for life, I chose the swan as they're, of course, elegant and make a soft look on the card.





Using white on the light background was quite difficult, even though I was using a cream card. I don't want to use too much white as it will make it look too heavy, adding water ended up too washy, hence I have been experimenting for quite a while. In the end, I used smaller-than-pea-sized blue into the mix, which finally work well on the cream background.



In conclusion, the card had been sent to them, they likes it and thought it's very thoughtful, then I received their slices of leftover wedding cake which I thought it's very delicious, yum. 😋















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