Have You Hugged a Tree Today?

Here is another new garden flag by Toland Home Garden you'll find in stores this spring.

The original artwork was created on this really neato super-textury handmade hemp-based paper...it's really meant more for decorative uses, not so much for painting on (it's like painting on wet Kleenex) but I love the results and have fun with weird little challenges like that.
I wasn't quite sure about my original colors so after the art was scanned I played with them digitally...and that experimentation resulted in 2 garden flag designs!
 
What I do has always depended so heavily on trees. Along with that whole air-that-I-breathe thing, most of the paper that I draw and paint on, the hundreds of wood pencils on my desk, and ultimately the stationery products my artwork eventually become in order to make a living...it all has to come from somewhere.

So when long-time licensing partners Marian Heath approached me a few months ago to discuss working with them to design a logo for a new line of tree-free, chlorine-free, carbon-neutral, oil-free, certified-renewable-energy, and 100% recycled greeting cards, I eagerly started sketching away!
They've just introduced the new Love Mother Earth line of cards.

I can't tell you how proud I am that my little logo design is there on the back of each card representing Marian Heath's commitment to the environment!

I just received some samples of the cards...they are lovely. They are truly that high-quality and beautifully-designed product that the company is known for.

It's a very happy moment for this tree-huggin' granola-eatin' animal-pettin' hippie-chick-at-heart!

As companies like Marian Heath take this kind of big step toward saving the planet, it can remind each of us to take those little steps, day-to-day things, that we can do to make a difference.

Stay tuned in the coming months for more news about new green-projects I've got going with other licensing partners. I can't wait to share them with you!

In the mean time, thank a tree for all that nice air you get to enjoy and just...breathe.
Aaaahhhh.

Comments

[Sue Z]

Congratulations!! You tree hugger you!!! This new logo design is absolutely fabulous!! MH are smart cookies two have asked you to create this. You have always made a difference in the causes you have supported over the years . The logo and flag are are the TRUE you and dropdead gorgeous I might add.

I also would like to ask you how you managed to create a the flag with your cat sitting on your artwork?

[Shelly :)]

Beth these are INCREDIBLE!!! Congrats on both the flag & the logo! And I agree with SueZ... Was it maybe some cat fur or something to give such fun texture??? I usually have my dogs surrounding me and my cat purring ontop of the back of my chair -such fun co-workers we have.

[elizabeth]

These are beautiful designs--loving tributes to our friends the trees (said only slightly tongue-in-cheek.)

And I love the animation of the logo on the cards website--was that you, too?

Thanks for visiting my tree hugger illustration :)