Dear Liza,
My friend Ruth Inman gave us another challenge this week. It was to use text as a background for a piece of art. She offered some pieces of text to use, but I wanted to do my own. I used some stencils that I just got last week and went over the letters in waterproof ink.
I got my acrylic paints and an old credit card and scraped some color over the words.
The greens and yellows are a good start….
One thing I really like about art, and the artistic process, is that you learn as you go along. If something isn’t right, you work on it until it is. In this case, the pink made it even more Spring-y, but was way too intense. The letters were fighting with the colors! Help!
Auntie Bridgett suggested I put some white outlines around the letters, which helped a bit, but not enough. So I darkened the letters with some watercolor pencil and lightened the red bits up with tiny dots of Posca marker. It was better!
I still need to work on getting my stencils letters straight, but that will come with practice.
Have fun with your art!
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza 