At the risk of designating social media as royalty – lol – I used the logos of some favorite social media logos for my card today – as well as a bit of inspiration for a little coloring in #thehumanrainbow !
Video
This video is my ode-to-Van-Gogh! I recently went on a virtual tour of the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam….despite knowing a lot about Van Gogh before the tour, the thing that struck me in seeing his work chronologically was the vast differences between his styles. Almost like he changed on a dime when moving from northern to southern France! Which gave me permission to just go for it with this card even when it started heading a different direction despite my attempts to mentally redirect it! Check it out…
The pressure of the pencil did get away from me – it made for denser color (more dense? Is that more gramatically correct?)……but man was it hard! And it made my white pen turn tail and run when I tried to add the stars.
And that left me going to my trusty Watercolor Grounds for the stars! You can do something similar with acrylics; depending on the quality, sometimes paints don’t absorb color from beneath the way a white pen does. Give whatever you have at home and see what works!
Supplies
- Pretty Princess, My Favorite Things Clear Stamps
- Stonehenge Drawing Paper AMZ – BLICK
- Jet Black Lawn Fawn Ink Pad
- Tape, Judikins Eclipse
- White:
- Titanium White 4 oz., DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Grounds
- White Uni-ball Gel Pen: EH – AMZ – BLICK
- Prismacolor pencils EH – BLICK
- Blending stumps EH – BLICK
- Gamsol Blending solution EH – BLICK
- Quietsharp Pencil Sharpener AMZ – BLICK
- Scotch Foam Mounting Tape
Gorgeous card and I can almost feel how your hand must hurt.
I also made a big mistake recently while colouring, I used a blending pencil for my sky and that was to much for my hand, never do that anymore. Better had used a blending stump with gamsol.
Thank you so much for sharing, stay safe and have a wonderful day
This is so cool!
Love. It!
Interesting vid – love the story of your mom and her new smartphone… I can relate. Virtual Van Gogh Museum sounds like something I’ll have to find very soon… This stamp set is interesting too – I’m wondering just what kind of ride that carriage provides, with the heart-shaped wheels??? The “social media colors” are pretty cool – hadn’t realized that Google is red, yellow, blue & green – I know lots of folks think green is a primary color, because, you know – grass and trees…! Had an interesting discussion with a “millennial” over that subject not too long ago… “Go fig!”