This Mixed Media stuff is harder than I thought........
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Am still reading Chapter two of my dummies book for my camera. Chapter One was a real page turner! Blah blah blah about how this does this and that does that. It was all I could do to keep from falling asleep literally face down on the page. But, I made a commitment to read the whole book so onward I go.
On the plus side I did learn how to focus by pressing halfway down on the shutter button.
As my mother would say....."Woop-Di-Do". All that reading and this is what I learned???? But, that is why some of my pictures had the background blurry while the subject was very nice and sharp. For sure, I couldn't have done that manually. I'd call that a win-win.
Will continue to report back on my progress.
My posting for today really has to do with my mixed media class. Already, lots of students are posting some of their results and I must say that some are really good and some, well, they look like hot messes but hey --- art is art.
Myself, being extremely OCD about doing things right is miserably slow and is behind everyone else. So far, I've done just my watercolor background and have fussy cut my focal pieces. The watercolor background was almost a bust and I seriously thought about starting over. The instructions were to liberally spray three different colors on watercolor paper. She said to be liberal and I guess I went overboard because the next step was to let it dry then with a wet brush, make puddles of water in the shape of circles all over the paper and that it would reactivate the colors and cause them to blend as well lightening the circles. Well, no matter how much water I added, no matter how deep the puddles got, there were no circles, and definitely no lightening of anything. Nothing moved, nothing, nothing, nothing! So, I decided to take matters into my own stained hands...........I put the whole damn thing under the faucet and ran cold water over it. A lot of color ran down, and down, and down. So what I was left with was what I think I was supposed to have in the first place. We'll see...........I still have to do some stamping and embellishments before I glue my focal pieces down.
And even though I should wait and just post the final results, I want to share my process so I don't forget the mistakes I made...........ever!
Am still reading Chapter two of my dummies book for my camera. Chapter One was a real page turner! Blah blah blah about how this does this and that does that. It was all I could do to keep from falling asleep literally face down on the page. But, I made a commitment to read the whole book so onward I go.
On the plus side I did learn how to focus by pressing halfway down on the shutter button.
As my mother would say....."Woop-Di-Do". All that reading and this is what I learned???? But, that is why some of my pictures had the background blurry while the subject was very nice and sharp. For sure, I couldn't have done that manually. I'd call that a win-win.
Will continue to report back on my progress.
My posting for today really has to do with my mixed media class. Already, lots of students are posting some of their results and I must say that some are really good and some, well, they look like hot messes but hey --- art is art.
Myself, being extremely OCD about doing things right is miserably slow and is behind everyone else. So far, I've done just my watercolor background and have fussy cut my focal pieces. The watercolor background was almost a bust and I seriously thought about starting over. The instructions were to liberally spray three different colors on watercolor paper. She said to be liberal and I guess I went overboard because the next step was to let it dry then with a wet brush, make puddles of water in the shape of circles all over the paper and that it would reactivate the colors and cause them to blend as well lightening the circles. Well, no matter how much water I added, no matter how deep the puddles got, there were no circles, and definitely no lightening of anything. Nothing moved, nothing, nothing, nothing! So, I decided to take matters into my own stained hands...........I put the whole damn thing under the faucet and ran cold water over it. A lot of color ran down, and down, and down. So what I was left with was what I think I was supposed to have in the first place. We'll see...........I still have to do some stamping and embellishments before I glue my focal pieces down.
And even though I should wait and just post the final results, I want to share my process so I don't forget the mistakes I made...........ever!
I see circles and I see some blending ----- mission accomplished?
Aren't these beautiful ladies?! Pretty good fussy cutting, I'd say.......
Stayed tuned...........the exciting stuff is coming!
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