Blog Header Design Makeover #7- Jean Levert Hood

I haven’t done too many Blogger headers and so when I visited artist Jean Levert Hood‘s site this morning, I had a really good idea for a header design makeover using a Blogger theme.   

Anyway, having spent several years in Texas, (in fact, technically, Ohio is really just northeast Texas) I was interested in seeing some Hill Country art. Jean has some pretty neat insights and an interesting painting style and I really liked a watercolor iris she is selling on Etsy. 

Isn’t this nice?

I immediately thought it would be sweet as a header element. 

So I grabbed a copy from Etsy. She is using a modified Minima template. This Blogger template has quirky thing with the margin padding, so you have to make the image 10px smaller than the 660px the html says is the header width.

Of course, you could change the margin, but I like it.

I grunged up a background that to my eye complimented the watercolor image.  

 I used a really cool font from my LetterheadFonts collection Brien, by font designer Gary Godby, for her name.  I love Letterhead fonts.

 I tried to match the color background, but its not perfect. With a little tweaking to the curves, I’m sure I could make it better. So what do you think of this one? Roy

Postscript:

I heard from Jean and though I’m pretty sure she likes the design for art’s sake, she said it was too "sweet" for her. I can see that.

Not that Jean isn’t sweet.  She seemed that way to me.