This is the third of these I've made, each one with a different technique. I don't like that yellow water-resistant paper for watercolors, so I used real watercolor paper for this one and made the "pixel" size smaller. This is not my normal style and I don't know if I'll do any more of these, but I was fascinated with it, once I started, and wanted to experiment. Click image to view larger. See two earlier stages here.
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Mary, I absolutely LOVE this! The technique is fascinating & the result well worth the effort, I think! WOW. Really well done & interesting on many levels!
I could contiue to rave, rave, rave, but I'll give others a chance...
what a crazy cool idea! I'm looking at it and can't really figure out how it's done, which I love. In the thumbnail I thought it's a stain glass window.
I also like the idea of using some watercolor paper instead of the yellow coated one, which sort of sucks for watercolor. I might give it a shot when the next book gets to me.
I will contiue to rave, rave, rave... WOW! How?
Thanks you guys, thanks a lot! Woohoo! :-D
This started from the collaboration I did with Steve. I saw a face in his "squiggles" and tried to "find" it with markers. AS I was working, I kept thinking of things to do differently so I tried again. I wanted to be able to do some shading and one way to do that was to make the spaces smaller.
This is what I did: lightly sketched in pencil a face--I used Keith's (BB)--sort of, as he was sitting across the table from me, then I drew the face in ink and then added shapes--flowers, curlicues and lines that followed major shapes, then painted the background in in blues and greens--I was thinking leaves and sky, the shirt in shades of blue--he was wearing a blue shirt--and then the face in shades of pink and brown etc (Something related to skin tones.)
I think if I made another it would be better yet--I HOPE--since I learn a little about the process each time I do it.
This is just gorgeous. You should definitely do more of these!
Blown away! You've been quite the busy artist bee Mary!!
Thanks, Steve! It took a day and a half of solid steady work to finish this!!!
I was desperately trying to get these done--but done well--because I ahev so much going on.
Thanks everyone!
This was really hard and time consuming. I hope to do more, but maybe not this round.
Mary, I am in love with this process you are using! I may have to give it a try, it's right up my obsessive alley. I doubt mine would turn out as good as your have though. BRAVO!
Yours would prolly be BETTER because you are so much more precise and skillful!!!
THANKS! :-D
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