Two creative directions for your consideration. Each is a complete vision — not a variation, but a different way of seeing Eloise's day. Read both before choosing. Take your time.
Eloise Fontaine is turning seven.
She would like you in her meadow.
The suite is treated as a series of naturalist specimen plates — the kind found in a Victorian field guide or a mid-century natural history museum. The caterpillar from Eloise's bug journal, page one, age five, is the central motif: drawn with fine pen-and-ink lines, loving precision, and the quiet authority of someone who has been watching insects long enough to know where to put the segments. Surrounding it: pressed oak leaves, a ladybug at rest, a small bee caught mid-flight, wildflower sprigs from the arboretum meadow.
The paper is cream. The lines are careful. Every element earns its place, as Eloise herself would insist. This is the suite that says: we took her seriously. Because she is watching.
The suite captures the feeling of the meadow itself — the thing Eloise has been asking for two years running. Loose, painted, warm. The invitation puts you in the grass before you've arrived. Live oak branches arch overhead. The October afternoon light filters through in the terracotta and sage tones of the palette. The caterpillar is in the corner, on a branch — a discovery, not a specimen. You have to look for it.
The atmosphere is Eric Carle's colour world — bold, warm, joyful — but with the restraint Eloise would demand. Not a cartoon. A beautiful painting that happens to be for a seven-year-old's meadow party. The kind you might frame after the party is over.
Approved by the client · Full suite produced
The full design suite was built on this direction.