So Picturebookruary begins on Wednesday. And I have only just started to think about it. And it feels like it has come round alarmingly too soon. Except, of course,
my god-son, born on the 31st of January, is about to be 1. So to him, it has been a while. A lifetime, if you will.
So. While I think about that, pondering whether there really are enough hours in the day to do this again, I'll catch you up with some of the other designage that has been going on here.
What's that? These are all remarkably similar? And isn't that the angel from the
Messy Church poster? Fine. Dag nab it. Yes it is. But I was going for a theme. And those angels took hours. My only regret really was that on the above poster, the snowflakes didn't quite work. That's what you get for crafting individual snowflakes. A proverbial slap in the face.
I really liked this colour palette, though. And it really wasn't my own idea. I took a whole heap of inspiration from the murals of David Hetland, about whom I can find next to nothing. The only thing I could find was
this flash presentation on the Minnesota Public Radio website. Given how beautiful they are, it's a crying shame that there aren't better quality photos available of his work.
The minimalism of this poster was necessitated by a) my hatred of the kinds of posters you see outside churches (small children, gazing wistful, lit by candles. Meh) and b) everyone having forgotten that this poster needed doing. Never have I worked so fast.
Oh, and having left it so long, now there's another Messy Church poster:
Yes, it's about one degree outside today, and yes, snow is forecast, and yes, I still have paper snowflakes up in my windows (it's Winterval, don't you know), but as the nice man decorating the bathroom right now said, people are fed up of winter. So I embraced spring. And what is more springy than lambs and swallows? I'll tell you: nothing. Except maybe rabbits.
