Thursday, May 29, 2008

A new technique



For this I used a transparency, and painted the back. Although I didn't quite get the skin part evenly colored, I think the technique has alot of possibility! Add in papers aged with Ranger's distress ink pads and some gesso and I couldn't miss!

7 comments:

rebecca christiansen said...

Wow! I really like what you did here with the transparency. Love the look, the composition and the colors! It's wonderful Kim!

morningDove said...

wow you painted the background transparency, interesting. I really love it. I still have a long way to go using inks. very frustrating for me.

CIELO said...

Very crafty.... and talented! Great job!

Cielo

Anonymous said...

Love this piece and the serenity feel of it.

papercracker said...

You did a fabulous job in painting the back of that transparency. Love the color combination you have used for this piece.

Lavinia said...

Actually, I like how the skin is depicted...the many layers in this artwork give an overall ethereal feeling which goes very well with the subject matter.

Christy said...

This turned out great. I just got some ink jet transparency today so I'm going to give this a try later this week. Love your results.

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