Beau has offered to host this next postcard swap. Her theme is "drips and splatters"
In her own words: "These
could be made with watercolors or acrylics or possibly with sparkly
glues or other liquids that I can't think of, or could even hand-drawn
or rubber stamped - or a combination of all of the above. Here are two
examples I made recently, just because I was in the mood to try
something new and was inspired by something similar I saw on Pinterest.
With an umbrella design in mind, I used masking tape to cover up the
shape of the umbrella I planned to draw, and went all the way down to
the bottom of the card with the tape, so it would be white and have no
drips in that area. I used cheap plastic palette cake watercolors, got
them really wet and then scraped the different colors along the edge of
the postcards so the drops of colors would drip down the card. I
sometimes turned the cards in mid-drip so they'd branch off in different
directions. When the colors were dry, I then wet my paintbrushes again
with the watercolors, then held the brush horizontally above the
postcard and then gently tapped the handle of the brush so that a few
small drops splattered on the card. You could also wet an old
toothbrush with color and run your finger over it to spray a fine mist
of color. You could also use a spritzer to achieve a fine spray of
color, too.
When
the drips and splatters were dry, I peeled off the masking tape and
then drew my umbrella and the figure of the boy in the white area. On
the one with the cats, I rubber stamped two and hand-drew the other and
colored them in with colored pencils."