Day 1695: The making of a crowd.

Josephine, collage, old photo & digital

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Last Sunday while @ work for ASW here, 

we had some really cute customers, so ...

I tried some cards & postcards of them.

Victoria

Anthony

This is my version of Anthony & Victoria.

I could never get hired as a character artist!

Anthony looks younger than in real life

& Victoria looks older. 

And while at the ASW sale I needed postcards,

my usual Strathmore paper was sold out, so

I bought 3 packages of this heavy 4x6" watercolor paper ...

I tore out all 15 pages of 2 packages 

& started making my "crowd" with an ink brush. 
Ink is step 1.

A big difference in paper!

I don't think of myself as being picky, I use junk mail after all,

but this w/c/ paper has a blotter-like quality that I didn't enjoy.

Ever thrifty, I also used the cardboard back of each pad.

When I added skin tone watercolor, it sunk into the paper 
more than I wanted, so even though I work quickly, 
I couldn't blend or be subtle.

So when it came to the background, it was really yucky!

I am not a water-colorist at all, so it was even harder.

Watercolor is step 2.

what a crowd?

Step 3 will be collage.

It is absolutely necessary for me to hoard great paper.
That's my story & I'm sticking to it!
Collage can cover a multitude of mistakes.

Oh, and I plan to return the third package ...

& apply it to the purchase of the much preferred ... 

Lesson learned.

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