Triptych

It's good to be back creating something other than a tonne of non-fiction prose. Below is the first of many several ATC triptychs (I have the centre panel for another one finished).



acrylics, ink, found paper, embroidery floss

if wishes grew on trees...

...this tree would have some leaves. Heh.

Here's hoping that when I have time to do art again, I feel like clothing my trees in some foliage. They tell me that they're cold. Poor things.

As for the ATC: I macgyvered the inky layers technique in Bernie Berlin's Artist Trading Card Workshop because I don't own dye ink pads and my pigment ink pads are in Winnipeg. Okay, the pigment ink pads belong to Ptichka...but they're still in Winnipeg. I do own acrylic paint and medium and ink. The background is found paper with ink and acrylics. The tree is all ink.

Sisters Series - ATC's

tree trio

I made these for the March swap. I may keep them for myself, though.

it's good to be home

While I am all for pushing myself in terms of techniques and subject matter, sometimes it feels good to return to the old standbies. They deserve love for being so faithful, after all.

In a mad sprint to wind up a swap that I never should have joined (ten cards! what was I thinking?), I settled down with Plants and drew some, well, plants. This time without hearts. Next time? Who knows?

Gel markers

Okay, I know this isn't new to most of you but it is to me! I got a book out of the library about Altered Imagery and I thought I'd try a few things out of it. Of course this wasn't in it but the author was talking about gel markers so I had to run right out and buy some (of course!). The gel markers do really cool things to magazine images and photographs - like the colorize effect in Photoshop. Do regular markers do this too? What's the difference between gel markers and regular markers? I made this one to swap (it's my daughter with a king salmon) but I might just keep it for a while ...