Our first practice brief was to create an I (for illustration) which shows something of yourself as way of introducing yourself to the group and as I have now uploaded to my course I can share it with you here.
For anyone who really knows me it is self explanatory as I haven’t gone for anything cryptic
But those who done here goes.
The top is filled with mountains which I love, a nest with 3 birds represents my grandchildren and my daughter flying in to feed them.
The tree itself is a huge love of mine and the vine is for all the country side around me. The light, my guiding light, is my husband who is my biggest fan as well as my biggest critic lol.
Then the tree is filled with some of the important things to me, my cat, books, pens, sheep, my iPad (lol) my home with its picket fence and my baby girl who lives in heaven. Then we have the deep roots which I feel I have already put down in my not so new home. (Almost a year when we moved)
And here is how I created it
Onto an A3 piece of mixed media paper I sketched my final draft. I had sketched it out several times in small scale to finalise my ideas. I then used making fluid on the leaves and small items on the tree. Once dry I added a water glaze to all the background and the dropped in purple and blue watercolour paint. (Danial Smiths) once that was dry I sprinkled brusho on top and activated it with water.
I finished painting my mountains and once dry rubbed off the masking fluid. This actually gave me a huge blister on my thumb.
Then using watercolour I painted in the rest I added more details with pencils (polychromous by Fabre Castell) the mother bird I drew on a separate piece of card, cut it out and stuck it in place.
Let’s take another look
Hope you like as I had so much fun creating it
Hugs xxx
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