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Christmas Carol Singing Gnomes Clipart Graphics

So let me introduce to you The Gnome Brothers Band – our new Christmas Clipart Graphics collection !

These fellows sing. They sing so you can see the bottom of their pants through the mouth ðŸ¤£

Joke aside the inspiration for these guys came from a concert of Sting’s “Last Ship” musical, where he invites the Wilson Family brothers. When I heard them sing for the first time my jaw dropped. They sing a poem by Rudyard Kipling. Go listen to it, these guys are amazing!

I discovered The Last Ship when it was released many years ago and never got to quite like it. You know, some music has to grow on you. Last summer I was searching for something new and stumbled on this amazing concert. Probably listened to it a few hundred times since ðŸ™ˆ

And here they are ðŸ™‚ singing Christmas carols.

Find the sets in all our shops Watercolor Nomads – Etsy – Creative Market

Thank you for stopping by!

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Happy Baba Marta!

Pijo and Penda

 

Happy Baba Marta to you all!

Guess you don’t know what I’m greeting you for, unless you have some Bulgarian friends 🙂

Today is March 1. and Bulgarians celebrate Baba (Grandma) Marta. Marta is the sister of Janyary and February. January was the big brother bringing heavy winter snow and cold. February was the small brother competing with January. Marta, their sister was bringing the Spring year after year and putting the boy’s games to an end for a time being at least.

Now there are many legends on how the Martenitsa (an amulet made of entwined red and white wool threads) was born.

One of the oldest legends says that Khan Asparuh received a precious gift from his sister Huba, who was far far away in the lands of the Old Bulgaria. She sent him tiny flower bunch tied to the leg of a swallow. It was tied with a white woolen thread. Until the swallow reached the Bulgarian lands on the Danube river, the thread has made the bird’s leg bleed.  It arrived to Khan Asparuh on the first day of March. It was since that Bulgarians wear on their clothing or tied around the wrist the Martenitsa – entwined red and white thread.

Pijo & Penda are husband and wife also made of wool and they are either worn pinned to the clothing or hang in the house. I find it quite symbolic that they’re connected through their heads by the entwined rope and hang together.

The Martenitsa is amulet that safeguards the people’s health and happiness. If you hang one in the house, it will protect it and the people who live there.

So my dear friends, may you be white and red, healthy and happy and may your house be safe!

Happy Baba Marta!

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New Year – New Site

Hey guys! Happy to be back 🙂

… and with a new site. Now we have our own shop here too, so it’s all in one place.

During the last year  we moved a house and partially studio. It took a huge part of our time and we barely had any for the mountain of wanna-do-things on our list.  And the list is long, as you can imagine.

One of the things on from the list was to answer your questions.

And here’s a revelation!

A question we got on Etsy was from a lady that was in love with our work and wanted to purchase few collections to create something, but didn’t have any idea how to go with it. She asked if we have a book or something to guide her.  It got me thinking about all the people that love to craft and could use a little help to find a way with graphics.

Starting with something simple but important. Raster vs. Vector and their file formats. We do this because many customers have come asking that we send them a vector EPS files because the guy/gal at the print shop said so. After such message I usually need relaxing tea or something stronger and don’t like the guy/gal from the print shop very much. To put it softly.

Here’s why – vector EPS will give them effortlessly good results. No need to do much other than put the file to print.  They’re probably tired of people going with tiny images saved from the image search of Google, that ask to print a 13”x16”  and frame it to hang in the living room. The quality would be most likely dreadful and the customer will be disappointed in their service. Why go through all this and not ask for the guaranteed-to-work-without-hassle?

Believe me, you don’t have to have vector EPS to get high quality print. What you need to know are basic things about images and printing. And here we start with the first question – what the heck are raster and vector and where to find them.

It is important to us that you use the resources we make with ease and get the best out of them. Please, feel free to post in the comments any particular questions you might have about that. We’ll do our best to cover all the aspects of working with graphic assets of various types and we’ll try to answer all your questions.

Here you go What the heck are raster and vector and where to find them?