7 July

Rough Sketch: New Blog Banner By Abrah…

by Jon Katz
Rough Sketch From Abrah Griggs

I’m excited to see Abrah Grigg’s latest rough sketch today for a new banner for bedlamfarm.com as we proceed with our redesign.

I love this direction, I think I most like either the belly dancing sheep on the letter “D” or the donkey straddling the letter “M.”  But the more i look at it, the more I like them all.

I also love the donkey lounging around on “B.”

Abrah Griggs, the gifted artist and graphic designer working on my new blog banner, has a special gift for capturing the personalities of bugs and spiders and other inanimate objects. Animals too.

The sketch is growing on me the more I look at it. I’m not sure about four animals, but I like the ones I see. I love the feeling of the animals not taking the blog seriously, using it to perch on or dance on or just hang out on. That’s the true nature of animals, and the feeling of the blog.

Serious, but never too serious, and never to be taken too seriously. The yin and yang of the place.

I like the tone of irreverence and the sense of the animals themselves, this is one of the things Abrah is a genius at, capturing the personalities of animals. I’m very happy with this.

This is pretty close to it for me. Let me know what you think. Abrah is quite wonderful. Her sensibility is my sensibility, I’m just not as talented.

You can e-mail me at [email protected], comment on my Facebook Page, or right her  on the bottom of the blog.

3 Comments

  1. Hi Jon,
    I don’t understand this new direction, however humorous, of anthropomorphising the sheep, donkeys, dogs. Wondering what’s up.

    1. Not a new direction at all for me, Claudia, it’s called humor..I like it… It’s fun and makes me smile, and that is a good thing these days. I’m afraid there is no deeper message. When we stop laughing at ourselves, we’re truly finished.

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