Reading

This page started the day I glued the printed tissue paper for page  #15 "Print and Doodle flowers" that I finished on 18 June 2021. I just decided to glue the same tissue paper along the top of a random page. 

It stayed untouched l until I had a sketch of a reading girl in my sketchbook. This page was the perfect starting point for a background for her. So I redrew her on the page and then decided I would first color her and then finish a background. Until now I always colored the background before coloring the main image. The only thing I did is adding a light layer of transparant Zinc White acrylic from Amsterdam to mute the black printing. 

For the first time I decided to color the face with watercolor paint. A couple of months ago I got the White Nights pastel paints and I wanted to give them a proper try. And I also used some of my Schmincke paints. Watercolor is not my comfort medium, but I think it turned out good enough to add some color pencil details. 

So that is what I did I used my Faber-Castell polychromos to add some depth and extra shading.

Then I started working on the background with Blending Distress Inks in the colors: Milled Lavender, Seedles Preserves and wilted Violet.

The golden glasses were added with a Uniball Signo pen.  I wasn't totally happy with the background so I wrote a passage of Alice in Wonderland in my messy handwriting along the top, mostly over the print but peaking out from it. I used Purple and Pink Pilot Juice pens 0.35. The passage I wrote is where Alice talks to the Cheshire cat in the tree.  Since I wrote the Alice passage I decided to title the Book Alice in Wonderland and drew the rabbit on the back cover. 

Finally I added some stencilled writing with Distress Ink Black Soot and the Dusty concord around the edges to finish the page.

45th Birthday Card + gift

This card is made for my husbands 45th Birthday today.  Happy Birthday!

First I blended some Distress inks on a leftover piece of watercolor paper. and sprayed it with water to get  some texture. I used the piece for the bottom of the card and to die-cut the balloon numbers. 

The balloon numbers are from Avery Elle and are called "Numbered Balloons". I just used the dies, but they also have solid stamps. The numbers are mounted on some black foam to get a bit of dimension. 

The images are stamps "Monsters" by Avery Elle and "Monster Mash" by Lawn Fawn. They are all colored with copics. And alternated glued on with dimension foam and just with glue dots. 

Finally the message is a text stamp from"It's your day" by Hero Arts. It's stamped with Versafine Onyx Black and embossed with clear embossing powder.

The gift for a wine drinker

Since my husband likes a glass of wine in the evening, I decided to engrave one of our Schott Zwiessel - Diva glasses. Unfortunately I didn't make any progress pictures, I was to busy concentrating on not messing up :)

The design is made in Silhouette studio and printed it. I taped it on the inside of the glass so I just needed to trace it with engraving tools and the Dremel power tool. 

Before I started on the wine glass I had a practice session on a jar that I was ready to recycle and I decided to engrave a Nutella glass that with my daughter's Birth year on one side and her name on the other.  We have plenty of them and my husband was not going to notice if one of those glasses went missing because I messed it up :) And I'm glad I did, because I think after a while I did get better at it.

 Although it is far from perfect, I like the result for a one day experienced engraver. Maybe I'll try some more glasses one day. 

Butterflygirl

 

The background of this page is made with purple acrylic paints, pink paint through a circle stencil and teal Dylusion ink spray.  

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In my sketchbook I had a sketch of a girl looking up, so I decided to replicate it here and add a big butterfly. 

I colored the face and butterflies with Acrylic paint and added some details with polychromos colored pencils. I think I prefer the sketched face to the finished painted face, but for some reason I often loose the roundness when I redraw them. 

I already have another sketch of a pretty face ready in my sketchbook to put on a Mixed Media background.