It is hard to get a good picture of this. When I saw today's Way's To Use It Challenge to celebrate Retro Day, I immediately thought of this print. I had a first layer stencil print in the teal. I think I made the second layer by stamping onto my gel plate in Stazon then brayering paint with the clock stencil and pulling the print (I really should write these things down!!) I wanted the stamped images to show up better so that's where I started with my pastels, adding more brown and then some pink and also some shading around the blocks. I then worked to bring out the clock stenciling which was quite faint. I mainly used pastels at this point. I then decided to do a faux burnt edge look and used first grey then brown and finally black. I thought it would be cool to do the same around the gals. I added some more pastels to the faces and used white paint on the eyes. Last step was gold paint on the metal cogs and hands.
Date: Thursday, February 27, 2020 GMT Views: 628
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Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105288
Thu, Feb 27, 2020 @ 2:00 PM
What an amazing look this is! I love those faces and your bg, Gail!
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Registered: August 15, 2007 Location: Twin Cities MN Posts: 50761
Thu, Feb 27, 2020 @ 6:43 PM
Interesting print..those faces are great in the middle. I know what you mean about losing track of what you've done on your print with so many layers etc. I like how you added the bits of gold on this. Cool idea for the retro theme ;)
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 132020
Fri, Feb 28, 2020 @ 7:31 AM
It's so effective with that great clock work in the background. Knowing me, I would have done it so that the clock showed the wrong way round. I really like the soft, muted colours.