Phase One: June's Postcards of the Month

June’s Postcard of the Month

This month's cards' inspirations came from this being the time of year we've always geared up for Laconia Bike Week. 

(me on Mule's 1980 Shovelhead, c. 2008? 09?)

And it's also right when the Poppies

(and Azaleas, Iris, and Lupines...)

are all in bloom.

So... Poppies

 and wheels and gears

all went into the mix.
(I did not print the cards with this brown ink!  It runs.  GOOD I CHECKED.)

And, of course, it is all happening in this bucolic, blue-skyed (of late) Vermont, so:

And, so it begins:

Step 1

 Step 2

 Step 3

 Step 4

 Step 5 (there's an anomaly in this step; hint: last card: ooops!)

 Step 6 (all fixed)

 Step 7

 Step 8

And that's as far as I got on Day 1 of production.  EIGHT steps so far!  And I still have the poppies to do!

OK, here's some musings:

This process always reminds me of prepping/doing air-brushing.  Careful pre-planning of each step is critical to the intended finished product.    Our friend, Gary Blodgett - wildly inventive, biker artist (and responsible for the re-worked flame job on the old Shovelhead) - said that poor air-brush work is often responsible for the pinstriping OUTLINING one sees around airbrushed designs (such as flames).  And, as you can CLEARLY see in the above photo: NO outlining.  :)