Flora & Feather - Enamel Pins & Bookcharms - Birds, Flowers, and Dragons!

I don't normally share my works-in-progress as I am always so nervous about how messy and not pretty they look lol 

But I know a lot of people really love seeing them - seeing behind the scenes how the artist is designing and creating their work. 

And since each of these designs usually takes me about 8-10 hours to complete, I am pretty sure I cannot keep up with how fast they are unlocking with the finished design. So I thought this would be a fun way to show you guys what the pins and charms will look like by sharing these work-in-progress sketches as I am refining the design in my mind and on paper. 

This is my plan for the Crested Grebe! :) I think this set is going to be very elegant and classy. I love the shapes of the sharp and curvy grebes and how it is mirrored by the sharp points and graceful curves of the cattails.

Ok, back to sketching for me! 😅 But I hope you guys enjoy seeing these little peeks I usually keep hidden away lol 

We are down to the final day! JJust a little over 24 hours to go and we have unlocked so many new designs! There are now 5 (almost 6) complete sets unlocked!!



Goodness, we are flying past all these stretch goals!! After posting the Cattails last night - we've unlocked:

 
I'm painting these as fast as I can lol but you guys have left me in the dust and leaves lol. But no worries - I will keep working to catch up and have all these designs revealed as fast as I can. And of course - all the finished & polished designs will be up long before the pledge manager goes up. So you will be able to see everything in its final form before choosing your favorites for your rewards :)

And with everything going so fast - we only have one tiny stretch goal left for the Cattails & Grebes trio to be complete!

Aaaand maybe I'm a little crazy - but we're going so fast - so I decided to keep forging ahead and added the next painting to transform into pins and charms: Pear Blossom & Barn Owl!



I've been so amazed at how fast we've picked up speed the last few days, that I don't know what to expect with these - but I decided, as long as we are still moving forward, I will keep working on transforming more of the series 😅😅😅 I love a challenge! 

Love you guys! And thank you so much for all the support and excitement for the project! ❤️ 

Oh my goodness - I can't believe how fast these are going by!! We not only unlocked the new pin design - Cattails - but the matching bookcharms as well!
 

I've always loved cattails and was wishing for an excuse to paint them. One day I was talking with my friend Kristen about it who is super nice about helping me with files of great reference photos and helping me brainstorm on some of my projects - and she told me that cattails are actually flowers!! 

I couldn't believe it! How perfect! I knew instantly I was going to paint a Flora & Feather painting with cattails! 😊 And now these elegant and unconventional flowers get to be transformed into pins and charms as well!!
 
I'm really excited about this set - these pretty coppery browns and greys are really calling to me and I hope you guys love this set too! Up next we have the Crested Grebe ✨

Grebes are an extremely ancient species of bird dating back to the Late Cretaceous Epoch - about 80 million years ago! Grebes are highly specialized diving birds with no obvious close relatives - living or fossil. I love how sharp and delicate these birds look and the fact that they are from an era of dinosaurs makes them all that more incredible to me! I can't wait to finish the designs for the Grebe pin - and at the rate we are going - I better get back to work on it lol 

Thank you so much everyone for all the support and excitement in bringing these all to life. I hope you guys love the Cattails!! 

We did it!! ✨ We unlocked the complete trio for the Scarlet Ibis & Poppy set! We unlocked both the pin and bookcharm yesterday for this swoopy critter who hides among the scarlet ibis and poppy lands!  And I finished the Scarlet Dragon design late last night 😅 

Out of all my Flora & Feather paintings, this dragon seems to be the hardest for people to find - and sometimes I think maybe it's not as fair as the others - as these dragons are hidden in the water, swimming close to the surface around the ibis feet, passing notice as fish. So for the pin, I wanted the scarlet dragon to show its aquatic nature. This also gave me a lot of fun shapes to play with to try and capture the gestural movement that the poppy and ibis designs have. I hope you guys love the newest addition to the set! 

With 2 days to go - I've added another painting to transform into pins and charms - the Crested Grebes & Cattails!! And - we are already halfway to unlocking the first design - the Cattails!! 

Thank you again everyone for all the pledges and support! I can't believe how far we have come and am so excited to make all these beautiful new treasures for you! <3 

Wow! We are racing through these stretch goals!! 😅 lol you guys are awesome - thank you!! ❤️

The Scarlet Dragon Pin has been unlocked and we are well on our way to unlocking the bookcharm as well! I am hard at work on the dragon design - so hopefully will have the design finished by tonight :) and I did finish the Scarlet Ibis design last night as well which I snuck into an update at like 2 am lol but here is where we are with this set so far



I can't wait to complete the trio with the dragon design!

And since you guys have already pretty much unlocked this entire set with 3 days left to go - I added another set to work on before the end - Cattails & Crested Grebes


I'm not sure how far we will get into the set, but at the rate we are going, I think we have a good chance of unlocking at least a few of these! 

Honestly, I am just so amazed to see how many of these paintings we got through already. We did in days what I thought would take the whole campaign to do - so each new design we hit is just an exciting extra bonus that I am so glad to be able to bring to life. Thank you so much everyone! I'm going to go finish bringing this scarlet dragon to life now lol hopefully before we unlock any new designs 😅