Sunshine and cocktails ... The first words of the advert are enticing, and its colour draws you in: zingy lemon-yellow laid against steel grey, with a sliver of sharp orange to seal the deal. The design? Clean and stylish to the eye, with layers of subtlety underneath - just like a good cocktail, I'm thinking. Miss Smith has been encouraging those of us taking her Just One Sketch class to choose a design on which to base our soon-to-be-pages, and the advert has given me mine:
In preparation, we've also been asked to ponder the elements of our style. I rather like this defintion from 1806: "(A) cocktail is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water and bitters" (bitters being a liquid not considered suitable for drinking by itself, made of herbs, fruits, spices and roots, which enhances the spirits). I think I might aspire to that for this class: a stimulating page, composed of images of any kind, words, white space and an embellishment. What d'you think?
So, that's the cocktails sorted :). Sunshine, anyone?
