What is on My Drafting Board Today?

Today I have been working on table numbers for the October Steampunk wedding.

Each one is individually illustrated, here is a #4!

Cheers
XXX
R

Steampunk Themed Wedding

Here are some preliminary schemes for the Steampunk meets Art Deco wedding I am doing with Rebecca Shepherd, an exquisite florist and co-founder of a wedding group I am a member of, Brooklyn Betrothed.
I am creating a custom hand for the escort cards, each adorned with hand-painted Chinese lanterns (the bride’s favorite blossom), as well as hand-painted individual table numbers. The illustrations will include a combination of different copper and bronze metallics. The fall color scheme will be delightful for this steamy October wedding.




I have also been working out a mixture of metallic pigments and inks to get a textured ink medium.Here are some swatch samples.


Take care and feel free to email me with any questions.
XXX
-Ruth

Ession: An Anarchist Paper Doll Layout

Sorry for the delayed blogs, I am working on an outrageously glamourous steampunk wedding with Rebecca Shepherd, so bronze, gold, and copper paper gear work assortments for the tables and escort cards are going to be showing up on the blog soon! Perhaps a few chinese lanterns as well....As of last week, I was recently honored by being asked to make a paper doll for the longest running radical Anti-authoritarian mag in the U.S., Fifth Estate. In the past I contributed art work for the magazine's issues on Ursula K. Le Guin, and was delighted to hear from them again (perhaps a future post....). The Johan Ess deviant paper doll creation, Ession, was perfect for this issue on Anarchist Fiction, as well as being fresh on the ink table sans clothing. I hope you enjoy this sneak peak, the magazine will be out shortly. I will keep you posted!

For the curious,

The T-shirt supports Marie Mason. It was designed by Just Seeds artist Erik Ruin.

The hoodie supports St. Pauli, an antifascist German Soccer team.

The book is by Peter Kropotkin, and is titled "Mutual Aid".

Tank top is Black Flag.

The rest......;)

Ession

Cheers!!

XXX

-R

What is on my drafting board today: Save the Date wedding invitations!

Today I am finishing up the final touches on the Save the Date wedding invitation, soon to be revealed on my online shop!



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R

What is on my drafting board today!

I am currently working on a promotional card set for wedding invitations. Here is a sneak peak at the save the date. More to come soon!




XXX
-R

Wedding Crashers Event at the Bell House

This event was first time I had been to the Bell House in the Gowanus area of Park Slope. Rebecca Shepherd, of Rebecca Shepherd Floral Design, invited me to soft open Papertopias Wedding Line at her table for the Wedding Crashers event being held there. The space is great! I designed and hand painted table numbers and escort cards to compliment Rebecca’s flora illuminations, which are elegant, enchanting, and made from the pixie lights of my dream world! They also had feathers creatively disbursed in the bouquets.
This is the first time Papertopias products have moved away from strictly paper doll goods to envelope a larger illustration form and I was honored and delighted to challenge my art to work with Rebecca and be apart of such a great event.
Papertopias is now designing wedding paper goods, hurray!
Kristina Hill of Kristina Hill Photography took some beautiful photographs of the event, the first few are of Rebecca Shepherd’s table. Enjoy!








Tammy Golson’s Table


Anni Bruno of NYC Faces



Nine Cakes


Tammy Golson Events and Nicole from Brooklyn Based helped organize this magical day which was filled with a thoughtful selection of wedding vendors, a few among them where Anni Bruno of NYC Faces who was giving away the most amazing chocolate mint chap-stick and free make overs, Betsy Thorleifson from the notoriously delicious and stylish Nine Cakes, and the catering group, Naturally Delicious who treated the crowds to some very tasty samples.

Happy wedding crashing!
-Ruth