Sunday, August 14, 2011

How I made a postcard

I started out with my painted paper, torn and pasted on a postcard
Decided it was not torn enough, so tore more off.


I then used some scrapbook paper I had, I tore it as well, so this kinda
decided my theme, birds egg a bird

The I used some really light paper, as I envisioned it flowing in the wind, only glued from the top


So far it was not going so great, I did not like the way the tracing paper looked
I decided then to draw a heart and a bird half on the tracing paper and some on the scrapbook paper


I then decided to use Pan Pastels, by this stage I hated everything about this postcard
and the next step would have been the garbage, I decided to try one more thing. The bird
looked like he had not had a good meal in days.


I took off the tracing paper, and redid the bird and the heart
in white pen, but it still looked flat


Next step, I used copic markers for the heart and part of the bird, part of the painted paper I used
getting better but still not great


So for the final step, I did some highlighting, and some shadingadded a word, I could have used a stencil, but I liketo try and use my printing




Truthfully I am not to satisfied with this finished product, but it does look better in person.
So If you like this, and would like to have it, leave me a comment,the first comment gets it.
If you don't like it,, it's okay, tell what I should have done or could have added more.
I tend to not add enough stuff maybe, I like clean lines.
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3 comments:

  1. LOVE watching people's work in progress, and I love your bird. Recently commented how much I love your use of white pen and would be delighted to have this great postcard!

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  2. Rushmore beat me to it. I like how you showed your process of getting to the final piece. I like how it turned out. Next time you come by my blog...see if you recognize the owl and arrow on the first smaller photo. Have an artfilled week!
    Mary

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  3. Oh bummer...now my nice post was gone...well I try to get it together again:
    This postcard has an unique worth, because you showed how it was created and how much love you put in it = higher value!

    And like I said before your art has an unique expressive style, I do love! It's so refreshing and sooo speaking to my heart, thank you!

    Smiles, Anke ;)

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