The Week 10 lesson was from Jennifer Bonneteau titled Silly Selfies. In working from an altered selfie (photo below), I used Sharpie permanent markers and alcohol inks primarily to have fun -- attempting to capture the essence of that altered colorful selfie. The second photo is the result. There is a lot of cross-hatch and stipple line work in it, and it is the first time I've worked with Yupo paper in this way. This brand of paper has a very nice and smooth surface - great for alcohol inks.
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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