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Art Nouveau Collage Sheets and Pink… Lots of Pink
Filed under Collage Sheets, New Products
I don’t know what has happened ’cause I am really not a pink girl. More standard-issue graphic designer dressed all in black. But somehow all the new items this week seem to have pink in common.
Art Nouveau Collage Sheets
8 (really, eight) new Art Nouveau collage sheets. I am going to bring the wrath of art purists down on my head as I’ve mixed the Victorian Neo-classicist, Pre-Raphaelite, and Art Nouveau painters into one catagory, but for the sake of simplicity I’ll call them all Art Nouveau.
– “Over the Garden Wall” with lovely neo-classical images from vintage postcards. Exclusive to Alpha Stamps by Polliwog & Dragonfly.
– 3 collage sheets with beautiful paintings by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Exclusive to Alpha Stamps by our Design Team Member Sarah Whitmire. And the beautiful collage at left is also by Sarah.
– 4 collage sheets from Altered by Design with a wide variety of Art Nouveau images, from Mucha illustrations to gypsy photo postcards to the beautiful paintings of Victorian Neo-classicist John William Godward. A few of the images are at right.
New Brass Charms
– Lots of leaves: delicate, curved leaves; bolder maple leaves; leaves that look like wings…
– Dragonflies and Butterflies
I was thinking about the popularity of dragonflies in Art Nouveau art and illustration and came across this from an exhibit catalog from the National Gallery (with my choices of illustrations):
“The dragonfly was an especially popular art nouveau motif, a favorite of René Lalique, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Émile Gallé, all of whom would have seen examples in Japanese art. Probably its popularity in France grew after translation of a series of Japanese poems (Judith Gautier, Poemes de la libellule [Poems of the Dragonfly], 1885).”
Back to Pink…
– “Sugared” 12″ Paper Set and 6″ Paper Pad:
Pretty pink, green, gold and dark red with florals and stripes. Set of six 12″ x 12″ sheets or 6″ paper pad (36 sheets of cardstock).
– “Sugared” Painted & Glazed Brads:
Colorful brad set or a patterned set of epoxy brads (in 2 sizes).
– Vintage Tee Scrapbook Paper:
A red patterned paper from another line, but I think it works nicely with the patterns in the Sugared paper sets.