Creator: Kessler Design / United States Postal Service
Client: United States Postal Service
Four beautiful mountain wildflowers are featured in this U. S. Postal Service 20 stamp booklet. The art director asked an illustrator and printmaker to lend her style of hand-carved block prints to this latest round of floral stamps. To bring her flowers to life on the small stamp canvases, the artist drew a series of sketches and then refined them digitally to create colorful, gradated “block-printesque” pieces of digital artwork. The color and shape of each flower was selected for its unique beauty and to complement the block of four. The artist tried to create movement and balance between leaves and flowers in each piece while keeping each different from the others to achieve a harmonious variety.
Additional Credits
Ethel Kessler, Art Director
Ethel Kessler, Designer
Lili Arnold, Artist