Here’s our final sticker pack for this year: Canadian Seals! This pack contains rainbow stickers of all 6 true seals found in Canada.
I’m really proud of this pack. I think the scope of colours is really nice, and all the seals look great together. I also tried to really push myself to simplify their shapes and make them all feel squishy and friendly. I hope you enjoy them, too!
You can find these seal friends on my webstore or at my Etsy shop.
Here’s the final design for my Canadian seals sticker pack! This little guy is a hooded seal. I think you can see where they get their name. Their little hoods actually contain an air bladder that they inflate like a frog inflates it’s throat. Except with the seal, the bladder inflates out their nose! So cool!
I’ll be releasing this finished sticker pack in the next day or so. Keep an eye out for it!
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Next up in our Canadian seals sticker pack is the harbour seal! Harbour seals are the second smallest seals, just a bit bigger than ringed seals, and are pretty common in southern NB. I feel like these little guys are some of the most charismatic seals, because we see them so often around beaches up here.
I went with a cool colour palette for this little guy to emphasise their silver-grey patterning. I think they’ll pop really well against the warm colours of the ringed, grey, and bearded seal designs in this set.
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Here’s my latest big rug design: A leopard! I had so much fun with my tiger design last year that I wanted to do another big cat. Leopards are so gorgeous and elegant! Definitely one of my top favourite wild cats.
I went with a lighter green-blue-purple gradient for the stripes to really emphasise the colours. I find going too dark with the pattern tends to wash out the overall colours of the rug.
This rug will be available at the Capital Art Sale at 1150 Prospect St starting Wednesday, November 29th! Please feel free to swing by and see it in person, and check out all the other amazing art by local artists while you’re there!
Finally, another sticker design for this month’s sticker pack: A bearded seal!
Bearded seals are kind of plain looking; brown or grey evenly all over. Except they have the most amazing whiskers! They may be my favourite species of Canadian seal just because their whiskers are so dramatic and fun. The pups are also pretty funny looking; they remind me of old dogs with those dramatic grey eyebrows and muzzles. I’d love to paint one of those little guys some day.
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A fresh take on the seal of approval pun so popular among seal merch makers: The gay seal of approval! Or the seal of gay approval. OR the seal of gay AND approval. Either way, you can’t lose!
My scanner destroyed the oranges and yellows on this, as usual, so I touched them up digitally. The sticker actually looks closer to the original than the scan.
I’m also sending out a special holofoil version of this guy in addition to the monthly stickers over on Ko-fi. Be sure to sign up for the sticker tier any time this month if you want this bonus sticker!
Or you can grab the regular vinyl sticker on Etsy: https://squidtartsart.etsy.com/ca/listing/1590687108/gay-seal-of-approval-vinyl-sticker
Or right here on this website: https://rainbowpetportraits.ca/product/gay-seal-of-approval-vinyl-sticker/
Here’s a new smaller fox rug design! I’ve used this design for a pair of larger rugs, but this is their premier as medium rugs. The little tongues and noses were a bit of a challenge at this size, but I think they turned out pretty well!
Do you prefer the classic orange fox or the more flamboyant silver fox design?
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The next design for our seal sticker pack is the Ringed Seal!
Ringed seals have such beautiful patterns. It’s hard to pick out a “cutest” when it comes to seals, but ring seals might be it for me. They’re also the smallest true seal, which definitely ups the cute factor.
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Here’s a new design I’m premiering this year: Seals! You miiiight have noticed that I’ve been on a real seal kick. I couldn’t not make a seal rug design! These little guys are based loosely off a harbour seal. I’d love to do a larger, more realistic take on these little guys some day.
Do you prefer the grey/blue or brown/orange variation? They both look so cheerful and friendly, I can’t decide!
Watch me design and create these rugs in my latest Skillshare class:
https://www.skillshare.com/en/classes/Stylizing-Subjects-for-Rug-Tufting/124191550
Some lil tree frogs!
I’m retiring this frog design from my medium rugs, but I thought it would make a cute mini rug! I decided to keep with block colours instead of rainbow for these little guys. Their tiny size and relatively complex shape would make rainbow versions a little too busy imo. After I finished these, I was kicking myself for not making an aqua version to look like a White’s tree frog. Maybe next time…
Do you have a preference between the light and darker greens? Do you think a rainbow design would work for these little guys?
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