I started this piece without any challenge in mind and just completed it. The color palette is quite subdued (for me) but I like it. The piece is an interpretation of an indoor ice rink lighted by different colored spots and a wild and beautiful pattern (almost like a stencil that covered the lighting as it streamed down upon the rink). In addition, the white stands for the actual spot lights that would follow the skater over the ice. There is some silver stitching in the piece (hard to see) to represent the marks left by a skater's program.
For fun, I've drawn one of my own photos (yes, I was dressed in a clown outfit) and added a wild and crazy background to accompany it for today's practice effort. As part of sketching the piece, it was split into four sections with two opposing diagonal lines. In terms of color choices, I've worked with color gradations for some shape sections. Can you believe, there are five major shapes in this effort? There really are -- circles, squares, trapezoids, triangles and spirals. I think the substrate is Biengfang Watercolor Paper (140 lb.). The materials used were Ohuhu markers, Micron 01 pigment ink pen, some red Stickles glitter glue for the nose, and a white Posca pen (for white dots on the face and to highlight eyes) and a yellow one (for yellow dots in the center of the flowers on the hat). There was no intention in working on this piece other than to have fun...and based on how it looks, I'd say well done!. One thing I learned is that blending with the Ohuhus i
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