I could spend all day in Birgit's gallery/blog. Her style is fabulous and since her blog goes back quite a way, after a few pages, I skipped to the beginning and started going forward. She has a little more going on in her earlier cards and I found THIS and was inspired by it because I loved the color.
Birgit also uses a lot of different mediums so I chose a couple I haven't used in a long time: pastels, chalk pencils and Prismacolor pencils. I also made this for a Serendipity challenge to use chalk and I was also inspired by an animated short film for the background. ( I know, kinda weird.)
I stamped the lovely wine image, masked it and rubbed and scribbled pink and purple chalks over the background, After I removed the mask, I used the chalk and chalk pencils to add color to the image. I then used an eraser to remove color in areas for highlights. Since it's hard to do really detailed shading with chalk, I had decided in the beginning I would go for an Impressionistic type still life look. The colors still didn't look shaded enough, so I took out my Prismacolor pencils and added more shading. It was starting to look a little better, but I still wasn't happy with it.
It's funny where inspiration comes from, but as I was pondering what to do next, I noticed an animated short film on tv. The style was very cartoonish but I started looking at the backgrounds in the scenes. They were very mottled and had these cross hatch markings all over it and I really liked the way they looked. So I took a white Prismacolor pencil and did the scratchy bg on the top. I also used the Ink Spots image to add a little something something along the shaded edges. The framed image was so large, I had no place to put the greeting except over the image, so I added it with the Versafine onyx ink.
Thanks so much for looking! Anyway, the description of what I did is a little long, so I put it on my blog if you're interested: The Write Stuff
Date: Saturday, December 21, 2013 GMT Views: 1369
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Sat, Dec 21, 2013 @ 10:07 AM
I adore this! The subject matter is certainly close to my heart. I can see in your background a little of the NFB shorts I saw years ago. Probably my imagination but I'm not imagining how much I like this. Great tribute!
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Sat, Dec 21, 2013 @ 11:06 AM
Wow! Wow, Wow, I love how you captured the true spirit of
her approach! Your card has such depth and such beautiful artistic design. Thank you so much for sharing how you did it and for inspiring us all today!