Can't stop screening Shakespeare over my painted backgrounds. I'm in bard mode, can you tell? It's not just because I'd recently seen Anonymous, but a few weeks ago I started planning the current crusade, and called it " All the World's a Stage", a W.S. line, and a title of a piece I did a lifetime ago. I pulled out the Somerset Studio from over ten years ago. I bet you still have it – it was a gorgeous issue. My friend Lynne is on the cover. And Judi has a multi-page article on book arts. I made a triptych – thinking myself so clever to turn it upside-down, wanting to offer an alternative to the trendy-at-the-time art form. That was then…..if I were to work on assignment now, this is what I might offer:
Digitally designed using custom brushes and text overlayed as screen. Below, a variation after sliding the color around. I find this a really useful part of the process. Color combinations appear on the screen that I would never select in real life. It gives me ideas to take to real pages.
Then I colorized the first image (to the teal family) and layered over the second image, and used a large blurry edged eraser and got this one, Gah!
Here is the old piece made about twelve years ago….look how much it had faded since the publication:
And more lessons:
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