This week for the MIX challenge we're using images from a source you might find right now in your house. I've been saving this old playbill with a few interesting photos on it for some time. I wanted to make my project around this woman. She actually has a name....she is a Twin Cities treasure, actor Wendy Lehr. I've seen her in several productions at various theaters in the Cities. She's awesome. To fit the size of my canvas I had to copy and shrink Wendy by about one third. I built the scene around her....making a checkerboard floor following the tutorial in the tutorial section on SCS. I sketched in the scene and then painted using watered down gouache paints. The stove is cut from an appliance ad. I went over the painting with a black gel pen and added her fly swatter, stamped the circling fly, and the overhead lamp which is an upside down umbrella. I had such fun making this...hope you like it. Come play along with us this week!
Date: Thursday, September 30, 2021 GMT Views: 477
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Thu, Sep 30, 2021 @ 7:27 PM
Full of fun Polly. Love it. TFS. Happy day
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Thu, Sep 30, 2021 @ 10:06 PM
and now Wendy is a treasure here on SCS, Pol! I love the scene you created. Looks like Wendy is beginning a makeover in her kitchen...that modern range with the grey cabinets tics all the decorating tips. Great job on that checkerboard floor. I am filing the umbrella light in my bag of tricks...cool.
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Fri, Oct 01, 2021 @ 4:00 AM
Faved!! I love this fun scene you've created could be an illustration from a book, I love Wendy who's chasing insects, that's what I do in this season, big spiders are coming in and crickets, I try to save the crickets and bring them back out but I hate spiders so they don't survive!!
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Sat, Oct 02, 2021 @ 8:42 PM
A fun card, Polly, what a terrific kitchen scene! The checkerboard floor looks fabulous and I do like the umbrella light. I hope she catches that fly!!
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