I do love to dabble in other creative pastimes occasionally and after having the idea to smarten up my Instagram profile with some new “Highlights” covers I decided to paint some rainbows!
I think it’s lovely to include a personal touch to your brand, something to make it truly unique. Bonus points if it also incorporates your personality and/or hobbies somehow, showing another side of what you do. For me, it helps to show that I have other artistic pastimes so my clients can see more of my creativity.
I bought some watercolour paints when I re-designed my Bexphoto logo (I painted the background) so I used these with some new, non-textured, paper and played around with colours, some in the usual rainbow spectrum, some starting halfway through, others more random. I had fun, found it relaxing and ended up with some lovely little rainbow designs to use.
I photographed them, edited and pulled into Paint 3D to transfer them to transparent PNG files which I then pasted into Canva to create the highlight covers in the right size for mobile. It was easy and worked really well, I’m so happy with them.
I’ve already cut one out and framed it in a little gold hexagon frame from Paperchase. It looks so cute in our spare room but I can’t decide where to hang it – opinions please??
Have you created any of your brand assets yourself? Does anyone else enjoy dabbling in creative hobbies?
