It’s a Mug’s Game

I’ve been coming across the digital art I used to do.  My Diva in the Attic moniker began life there and the work varied from greetings cards to huge giclee canvasses.  My dear friends G and M have a living room full of my stuff, bless ‘em  – we joke that it’s the Diva Gallery!  A lot of it seems crude and uninteresting to me now – you know how it is when you move on – but I’ve found a few pieces that I still like.

I made a couple of designs to be printed onto mugs.  One was for a friend who was a keen gardener and the other for a guitarist friend. I remember having a lot of fun making these.

A tiny thread of print edges the roses design – the names of the old-fashioned roses that both she and I loved – the albas, musks, bourbons, chinas, rugosas. She knew immediately what the names were.

On the guitar design, I included a series of guitar tabs which are actually the first bars of a 12-bar boogie.  I teased the guitarist that he had to reach for his guitar to find out what those tabs sounded like!