Hi all 👋🏻 ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmTXHaBKLfhnMtnRgJUyrCcSXA6zAb2YmTVDRUBkYMkYBu/img_4905.jpeg) Hereby I want to show you my entry for the banner contest for the **”STREETART COMMUNITY”** See the image/ thumbnail above 👆🏻 I am a bit late with my entry, but luckily we have all day today to still submit an entry. 😉 To be honest I did run out of time (big time) to draw and paint a banner in the last days. I had some great ideas… maybe next time… 😇 I sooo need more hours in a day! So I used #photoshop this morning to #create a #banner for our community from 2 of my own artworks... hhmmm 🤔 I mean parts of them. A #gouache #painting from a #kingfisher and a #pencil #drawing of a #woman. 😊 *Reference photos for these 2 artworks are used with permission, I refer to the bottom of my post for further details.* I combined my art with some #lettering made in photoshop and I show you a few #colour options too. (more colour options from the lettering available as I can change it in the psd file easily in photoshop) Now I wished I could have painted the lettering with some real paint… as this is so much easier for me hahaha 🤣 but this is all the time I had today so a creation in photoshop it is. The banner is 1920 by 240 pixels as stated in the rules. Rules and more information you find in the following post from @heroldius : [Weekly StreetArt #115(🎁 : 1 HBD or HIVE equivalent + 200 pts Ecency + CONTEST)](https://ecency.com/hive-184784/@heroldius/weekly-streetart-115--1-hbd-or-hive-equivalent--200-pts-ecency--contest) Our community you find here: [StreetArt Community!](https://ecency.com/created/hive-184784) @digi-me runs another contest… coming week will be #200 🥳 Let me start and show you some steps I made in photoshop this morning: I started with the size ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmPHfaw86e8bzMS7d1jvxpQvmic2Hhvp7tr6fKfHjAQLFa/img_4910.png) After that I decided on some fonts and changed the appearance of the lettering. Photo of the screen and me working on it: 🫣 ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmX1CEqbtwZ2EW4EB723EFMaGt2soqoRwMv64QBBsq42GU/img_3965.jpeg) A rough layout was chosen 😊 ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmVyRyqh87hxaEmuEiAx2JF6HXk5hH1yQnKQTZksqNe3pD/img_4906.png) I went through all my artwork folders and decided on 2 artworks that I could use as background in the banner. Here you see me still working on the kingfisher, I chose, during an exhibition in Málaga Spain 🇪🇸 ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmcuneBXnM57x7oYDK79B4zfSMC8pKzXjnA2YJteCHnLqo/img_1766.jpeg)*This photo is used before in the following older posts:* [Here](https://ecency.com/hive-124452/@littlebee4/ladies-of-hive-community-contest), [Here,](https://ecency.com/introduceyourself/@littlebee4/first-post-introducing-myself) [Here](https://ecency.com/hive-156509/@littlebee4/gouache-kingfisher-painting-sbs-and) and [Here](https://ecency.com/hive-156509/@littlebee4/wip-gouache-kingfisher-oranges-in) If you are curious to see a step by step of this work, see : [Gouache Kingfisher Painting SBS and work in progress!](https://ecency.com/hive-156509/@littlebee4/gouache-kingfisher-painting-sbs-and) I selected a state of my painting where it was still unfinished as this fitted well in the right side of the banner. I selected only the kingfisher and its catch… ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmSDiLfwzGxbLhKR9ejPuhQTEZE9K2Zg9Sp3PaWDoREvmt/img_4907.png) …dragged it into the banner. ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmYAFVUkUgwJPXEskqwr1k7n6axiyfgwmfhE8BzNc5XZt4/img_4902.png) Next I selected my drawing and mirrored it. ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmZz1aiDpTbNLv1p4WkYLWRHPXUEh1AcnKaQbNHz1DSF3C/img_4904.png)*This artwork is used before in the following posts:* [Here](https://ecency.com/hive-124452/@littlebee4/ladies-of-hive-community-contest) and [Here](https://ecency.com/introduceyourself/@littlebee4/first-post-introducing-myself) A step by step of my drawing you find in this older post: [Graphite Drawing ”Longing eyes” Steps](https://ecency.com/hive-174301/@littlebee4/graphite-drawing-longing-eyes) After mirroring and putting it in the banner, I extended the background with the following result: ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmQJnJC3GXHX8HE5YVCh74AtZojcmDjWuyB4zDxbcXSp5Q/img_4908.png) Then I thought I have to add @littlebee4 to it, as these are my artworks shown in the banner… so I did with the following 3 more results where you see different colours in the lettering: ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmeiNPQDSjH1T1QY5xWPNLXRQ6RMJ9A6di6VuYu68Xv8SP/img_4903.jpeg) ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmdk1xBN5WthBh3eJ9TawFmC4GYU4372R5D3nH3cS7gmHe/img_4901.jp) ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmeYkGmReCx8sHYbaJzuxBShawzv2c83rZyhf2DQgvHR9f/img_4909.jpeg) My favourite banner you find as thumbnail and first image in the post what is also my entry. I didn’t want to put my artwork posts in here, but I did use the photos before so had to include those posts now, hope you don’t mind seeing them again. If you never saw my artworks before 😇 you can see some step by steps from them now 😁 Hope to start creating again soon… I just need to stop moving hahaha 🤣 …and here I say that’s all for today’s post my friends. Join me next time for more #updates, #adventures, #stories and #photographs 😎👋🏻 Even my own #artworks, once in a while, will come by” 🎨 Thank you so much for looking, and reading. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/545735847962476557/1073201019862908958/divider4.png #ecency banner by @irisworld Any questions or comments, let me know. Always happy to help. Have a great day all 😎 Grtz Jackie

*Unless stated otherwise: All art and photos used in my posts are taken, created and owned by me. If you wish to use any of my photographs, please contact me first. As I have used some commercially myself. We don’t want that you or somebody else gets into trouble 😉 So please don’t use them without my consent.*

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If you want to see where I traveled to and what I already shared in @pinmapple, have a look at my personal map here: [Littlebee4 PINMAPPLE MAP](https://www.pinmapple.com/@littlebee4) https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/545735847962476557/1067409746954567720/publishedw-ecency1.gif Art work reference photos used with permission from Dave Webb and Alex Lee Johnson