Tuesday, December 2, 2008
More miniatures
I'm having such fun doing these little ones... they are a challenge for sure. How much detail can I get; how little can I get away with... what techniques will work. For the Winter Woods... which I've titled Christmas Woods and am using for our Christmas card this year.... I tried a technique I've used on larger pieces to see what the results would be and while it didn't work as well as it does on a large piece, I think it came out just fine. I masked all of the trees and the snow, put a small piece of cheese cloth down on the page and began putting color down, mostly darks. Once that was dry I removed the mask and added color to the birch trees and a shadow line on the snow. The other two were a matter of determining what detail to include and what to leave out... the gondolier's face could have been better but over all I like the results.
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Helen - I'm trying to catch up on what I've missed. You always do something different. What does the cheesecloth do? These are great! I love the gondolier and the one from the other day with the hats!!!
thanks for the comment-I guess balloon girl is growing on me:) Your watercolors are so great (I probably already said that, but I just love them!) I bought a set of tube watercolors, but haven't tried them yet-my problem is I try all these different mediums at the same time without really learning one and then moving on-I'm going to try to work on that :)
Hope to chat again soon-have a good evening!
My favorite is the trees! They are fabulous!!!! I love the textures you've achieved.
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