This is for Wendy's fun Free For All challenge - Grab & Go, as in grab the most recent thing you purchased and haven't used yet.
I recently purchased a couple of acrylic stamps by Sherri Baldy - My Besties, this is one of them. I started by stamping the image 4 times on a sheet of A4 shooth white cardstock, using Ranger Archival. I did this because the technique I use is enough to colour 4 images and I hate wasting it.
NO COPICS USED....As many of you know I have a love hate relationship with my Copics. These cards were done with Distress Inks and an aqua pen. I used my Smack and Squirt technique for the grass on sky and Smack, Squirt and watercolour for the girl and pot.
Using aluminium foil (fairly large as you don't want the colours to bleed into each other when squirted with water). Do one firm smack of each colour, rusty hinge for the pot, antique linen for the skin, fired brick for the scarf, dress and checks. Her boots are coloured with walnut stain. Her hair was done by using a left over rusty hinge, antique linen and walnut stain. In one corner of each colour that you smacked on the foil, squirt a small amount of water. Using an aqua pen colour the image. To shade areas just vary where you pick the ink up from. A good example is her checks, it is the same ink as her top and scarf, but taken from the watery corner of the ink.
I coloured 4 images with just one smack and squirt of each colour. It was at this point that I decided to add a little bit of seedless preserve (purple) to a few flowers, it was also at this point that I stuffed one up, so I fussy cut her and used it as a mask so I could easily to do the sky and grass on the remaining three.
Background = smack peeled paint onto foil, squirt on a LOT of water and slurp it up with a blending tool and sponge, hold the mask in place with a couple of fingers and lightly rub on the colour. Same technique for the sky, using tumbled glass distress ink.
The four images and 3 finished cards took just under one hour. I would still be colouring the first image if I were using copics LOL. Two cards are 4.25" x 4.25" and one is 4.5" x 6". I added a few dots of white paint using a Sharpie paint pen, sponged the edge with walnut stain then doodled border with a micron pen.
Thank you for looking. If you are still reading up to here, I hope I haven't bored you to tears.
Date: Friday, November 21, 2014 GMT Views: 1180
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Sun, Nov 23, 2014 @ 12:03 PM
Totally adorable threesome here! Cute image and your coloring is gorgeous!!!!! Fun stuff! Hugz
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Mon, Nov 24, 2014 @ 1:00 PM
How totally adorable! Love her one shoeless foot and painted toenails. I don't understand how you can paint something so beautifully with that technique - amazing.
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