Jocelyne Saulnier stated it was probably the most thrilling days of her profession when Canada Publish known as her just a few years again to see if she’d be thinking about designing some postal stamps.
The Riverview, N.B., girl stated they had been gauging her curiosity and informed her that she would get a name when a topic got here up that might swimsuit her design fashion.
Now, her designs can be a part of the vacation stamp sequence for this 12 months.
“It’s fairly a pinch-me second,” she stated.
Saulnier has had an in depth profession in graphic design, which started when she accomplished a bachelor of design diploma on the Nova Scotia Faculty of Artwork Design. She labored at some businesses in Halifax after which Moncton earlier than beginning to work on her personal round 15 years in the past.
Her Canada Publish design is a panoramic wintry scene from left to proper made up of three particular person stamps every depicting a area of Canada — West, Central and East.
The West Coast design exhibits snow-covered mountains and brilliant blue water, with folks snowboarding and snowboarding down a mountain.
The Central design has tall timber surrounding an outside skating rink full of folks and a glowing fireplace off to the facet.
The East Coast design is a lighthouse scene with folks sledding down a snowy hill as uneven inexperienced waves lap in opposition to the cliffside.
Every design is sort of totally different in look, stated Saulnier, as a result of she didn’t need the buyer to confuse them. Every has a unique shade of blue or inexperienced for the sky, making them particularly distinctive from each other.
The work on the stamps had been achieved by Tim Zeltner, an illustrator based mostly outdoors of Toronto.
Saulnier stated she selected Zeltner for the venture due to the magical and eccentric fashion of his artwork.
She stated she received an outline of the idea from Canada Publish after which gave Zeltner her tough sketch exhibiting what she envisioned for the sequence together with samples of his work that represented what she had in thoughts.
Zeltner would come again with a tough sketch, the 2 would tweak it and Zeltner would come again with an much more detailed pencil sketch. As soon as the pair had been proud of the design, Zeltner would proceed with a paintbrush.
Saulnier stated she thinks the stamp sequence will attraction to a broad vary of Canadians.
She stated wanting on the closing printed product, it’s nearly precisely like what was on her display screen, however a sort of varnish was added to sure areas, which Saulnier stated makes the snow look nearly pearlescent.
Saulnier has already positioned an order for the stamp sequence, including an additional stage of pleasure to sending her Christmas playing cards this 12 months.