Hello everyone:
I finished another altered canvas. This one has many more flowers on it than the first one did and I experimented with different types of papers this time.
I particularly like the way the vellum flowers turned out. I like the translucent quality of vellum papers anyway, and the texture is always fun to play with. It has a rather brittle feel to it when you work with it. Torn edges take on ink in an interesting way, as well. And when I color on vellum with Copic Markers, the colors don't absorb into the fibers of the paper. In this way, I can kind of "slide" different colors around on the vellum, play up the strokes at bit, and sometimes create a kind of textured feel to it. I particularly like to use Copics on vellum to create leaves. So cool! You'll see some of them here, though I didn't take a close-ups of the leaves to highlight the texture. Maybe on another post! :)
I also like to color ribbon with my Copic Markers. For this ribbon, I colored it with YG97, then dragged Tim Holtz's Gathered Twigs Distress Ink pad over the ribbon. I pulled out a small paintbrush and brushed the ribbon with a controlled amount of water. Water can be reduced or added, depending on your tastes. Then, I crumpled the wet ribbon, clamped it, and heated it with my embossing gun. I had to un-clamp, re-crumple, and re-heat about three times to get the ribbon dry and produce the degree of crumpled-ness that I wanted.
I learned something in this process. The amount of water I used and the lengthy drying/heating time washed out the ribbon in several places. You will notice how the ribbon took on an almost silvery, rather than green, tint in a few places. I like it, so I left it. In the future, though, if I don't want to wash out the color so much, I may have to crumple and air dry (Oh, dear - the patience) or crumple and heat much more sporadically, allowing the ribbon to cool between heatings. I'm always learning!
The surface of this canvas is covered with Mod Podge and then torn bits of plain old white tissue paper were added. When that was dry, I inked it with Gathered Twigs, too. I love that color and am sad that it was produced in a limited edition. But lucky me - I got one!
Anyway, enjoy!!
I finished another altered canvas. This one has many more flowers on it than the first one did and I experimented with different types of papers this time.
I particularly like the way the vellum flowers turned out. I like the translucent quality of vellum papers anyway, and the texture is always fun to play with. It has a rather brittle feel to it when you work with it. Torn edges take on ink in an interesting way, as well. And when I color on vellum with Copic Markers, the colors don't absorb into the fibers of the paper. In this way, I can kind of "slide" different colors around on the vellum, play up the strokes at bit, and sometimes create a kind of textured feel to it. I particularly like to use Copics on vellum to create leaves. So cool! You'll see some of them here, though I didn't take a close-ups of the leaves to highlight the texture. Maybe on another post! :)
I also like to color ribbon with my Copic Markers. For this ribbon, I colored it with YG97, then dragged Tim Holtz's Gathered Twigs Distress Ink pad over the ribbon. I pulled out a small paintbrush and brushed the ribbon with a controlled amount of water. Water can be reduced or added, depending on your tastes. Then, I crumpled the wet ribbon, clamped it, and heated it with my embossing gun. I had to un-clamp, re-crumple, and re-heat about three times to get the ribbon dry and produce the degree of crumpled-ness that I wanted.
I learned something in this process. The amount of water I used and the lengthy drying/heating time washed out the ribbon in several places. You will notice how the ribbon took on an almost silvery, rather than green, tint in a few places. I like it, so I left it. In the future, though, if I don't want to wash out the color so much, I may have to crumple and air dry (Oh, dear - the patience) or crumple and heat much more sporadically, allowing the ribbon to cool between heatings. I'm always learning!
The surface of this canvas is covered with Mod Podge and then torn bits of plain old white tissue paper were added. When that was dry, I inked it with Gathered Twigs, too. I love that color and am sad that it was produced in a limited edition. But lucky me - I got one!
Anyway, enjoy!!
Gorgeous!!! I mean that sincerely.
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