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Barn owls are a protected species and are a firm favourite to look out for when on a country walk. They are a fascinating bird and have such beautiful plumage.  Barn owls deserve to be celebrated, especially when you see a pair. 

This piece focuses on the colours, shapes and patterns found on the owls’ plumage and these have been stylised to facilitate pattern making and the use of sweeping lines. Barn owls, because of their importance, deserve to fill the available space with the foliage adding a pop of colour to frame the birds and fill the remaining background.
 
The artwork has been meticulously hand-made using layers of cut paper to form a bas-relief design, which is really noticeable. Acrylic paints have been used, on coloured papers, on all parts of the owls as details needed to be tonally appropriate. However, strips of coloured papers were placed behind the aperture made by the foliage to create a gradient effect. There are subtle shadows created by the layering of the papers, which can be clearly seen.

The depiction for this greeting card is a perfect representation from my meticulously hand-made paper cut artwork, capturing the textures and shadows made by the cut, layered papers that were formally a bas-relief design. 
 
Each greeting card design has been colour matched to ensure consistency with the original artwork. Once each design has been edited and placed onto my greetings card template, the artwork is commercially printed using a high-end digital, batch production process. My greetings cards are a standard 148 mm x 148 mm size and a vertical fold has been selected to allow your card to be displayed effortlessly.

148 x 148 mm Greeting Card / 350 gsm card 

155 x 155 mm White Gummed Envelopes / 120gsm paper

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