Janelle gave us an option for today's Mixability Challenge and since I am traveling with limited supplies I wentered with the 2nd choice. I have become rather obsessed with Gel Printing in general and Magazine Image Transfers particularly and then started adding Botanicals over the images and then using other media to enhance my prints. If you look at my gallery you'll see the evidence of this trend for me!!!As I was packing for this 2 week trip (now at the tail end) I ran downstairs and printed quite a few image transfers to bring along. We popped into a thrift store near my DD's in Philadelphia and I found some nice colored pencils and a pack of pastels which I just managed to squish into my already stuffed art bag. I lost some definition in my image's face so I started there adding back shading and definition. I will include the original in my post in the challenge thread. I also brought back some of the bg stripes and squares. I shaded around the grass and used some white gel pen too. I used an Elegant Writer pen to write the song lyrics. I bled my pen on the bottom of the word Survivor to add some shading then went back with the pen to keep it dark and legible.
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Fri, Aug 02, 2019 @ 7:33 PM
Gail, it is exciting to see this becoming a passion for you in this moment of time. I loved popping over to the thread and seeing the image you started with. However your enhancement came to be, it is perfect in it's time. I love the encouraging word. We all need to speak that out into our life!
And yeah thrifty store score...I got a Strathmore pad of newsprint and a PSX Botanical myself yesterday.
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Sat, Aug 03, 2019 @ 1:04 AM
Love this and great to see someone transfer...I’ve tried a few times and still trying...unsuccessfully but I plan to master it LOL. I love the technique...and also Philly. Love all the layers. TFS. Happy day
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