A New Year postcard I sent to friends and family: rubber stamp, calligraphy pen, and digital photo manipulation
A New Year postcard I sent to friends and family: rubber stamp, calligraphy pen, and digital photo manipulation
I cut out the shapes on rubber pads, stamped em on paper in black ink. Used GIMP to adjust the colours, resize, rotate, place the elements. I drew the branches into the paper with a black calligraphy pen and changed the colours.
The text was written using GIMP, I didn't write that. The message is: 謹賀新年2026 昨年は大変お世話になりました 本年もよろしくお願いいたします which roughly translates to Happy New Year. Thanks for s great year last year, I'm looking forward to/wishing you a happy new year.
The two lion things are guardian lions statues prominent on Okinawa, where I live. The horse is there because it is the year of the horse!
Happy new year everyone!