April's post card swap

Well over on UK Stampers Forum we are having another post card swap and this month the theme is Yellow and Circles.

 

Well the song by Donovan popped into my head and I just had to get it out.....

(They call me) Mellow Yellow

So after a week of having that ringing in my head, today I decided to something about it...

And painted The Beatles 1966 hit

We all live in a yellow submarine!

Now how am I going to get that song out of my head huh?

Off to read a scary book!

My last 'exercise' for now.

This is my last - for now - in my series of exercises.

 She is my 'alter ego'

(If only)

Flash, brash, confident, cool, calculating even?

So not me!

Another softer 'face' exercise

Deep in thought.

 Are those sad soulful eyes?

Is that a mean look to her lips?

Or just a wry expression - accepting the inevitable.

One more face tomorrow

Finishing on a fun note!

Ginger Lady

Another play.

She's been photographed on the hough - sorry for that.

She is square in real life - I think I'll put her in a frame as I quite like her

I just want to make clear that these are monochrome excises from a collage book - which you are encouraged to copy and colour and 'tweak'.

So I traced them and added circles and swirls and bits etc here and there to the little pictures which are smaller than these photos, and coloured them.

So I can't take any credit for the 'one eye' ideas or the basic styles. 

More experimental faces exercises

I am really out of my 'comfort' zone with these exercise faces.

Glitter, bright colours et al!

But I have to admit that they are a lot of fun!

Experimental

Be prepared to be shocked - it's shocked me!

I bought and second hand collage book from a lovely lady on a forum I belong to.

It took me completely out of my comfort zone.

Here is the first 'exercise'.

I used 'things I had to hand' and these were three flourescent marker pens, and a black one!

The exercise said to use glitter - yikes - I don't do 'glitter' either, but after a long rummage I found some which I got for my grandson - he likes bright colours and glitter.

On the Cardmaking Paradise Forum they had a link to a video that showed someone drawing Zetti borders.

Sadly this is nothing like the talented lady achieved - but it's my first attempt so I am happy with it - but whether I will be in the morning I don't know!

It's great to just play isn't it!

Well judging by your lovely comments - it certainly did the trick and shocked you!

I am working on some more  today - along the same theme but more subdued!

UK Stampers Easter Tag

I have spent the past few days on and off working on an Easter Tag for the UK Stampers tag competition.

Please click on the photos to see an enlarged photo

I started with a print of a Victorian Easter card.

I wanted it to look like a Victorian painting - but not wishy washy so I tried to build up layers to give it depth.
It's quite hard, I found, with water colours as you have to wait ages for the colours to dry, the go over it again with different tones

Funnily I found the egg quite a challenge - how to make the white paper to look not so flat.

So I gave it a wash of watered down grey, the added some blue and a hint of wishy washy peach.

I am quite pleased with the broken 'lid' of the shell lying on the grass.

 I did the same with the chick - close up it looks dark but it's lighter in real life.
I used several 'goes' with a black biro for his eye and beak

It's hard to get a decent photo of it - but it does look very vintage and the old gold
edging just seems to finish it off. I often use black but it's too harsh on this card

It's not often that I confess to being pleased with the results of my work, 

but actually I am with this - I'll add a silk ribbon, but didn't want to hide the painting for the photos.

Right - I am off to clean out my real life chooks!

Thank you so much for visiting