You're Grounded

Technique Tuesday -- Oddball Stamps

 

I am Posting a Technique Tuesday on Wednesday ..
Sorry for the delay - I woke up yesterday with a  severe case of Vertigo.
And could not sit up for a second without feeling dizzy and lightheaded.

So without further ado - my technique ---

 

You're Grounded -- Grounding your main image with a background

 

I am using Fairy Girl - Starlina for this technique/tutorial

 

 

Oddball Stamps Blog Challenge  : Anything Goes optional twist

(15th of every month)

 

 

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Let's begin ... please bear with me as this is kind of my first  technique informational post...

 

I study my image and ask myself - what kind of background do I want?

Where is my main character - on the ground, in the sky, in the sea ?

When I have my answer I then figure out where I want my horizon to go...

Then I add my horizon line..

 

... Stralina is going to be on a cloud in the sky....

 

 

I use watercolor for my backgrounds so, after I have my horizon penciled

in I color in the top background first...

 

I then decide where I want my clouds to go.

I add in the clouds by what I call "erasing out" the blue sky

with my water brush... making cloud shapes...

 

When I am happy with the amount of clouds, I finish off by

shading the foreground to add more depth and dimension... 

 

 

For those who are intimated to make a background, I hope you will

at least give this a try. You will be amazed how your image will

pop off the page a little bit more.. There a plenty of other

tutorials out there with in depth dimension how to - but for the mean

time I will keep mine simple and gradually step up to the big leagues one day..

 

Please come back tomorrow and see her finished up and on a project for

a new Oddball Stamps Challenge..

 

TTFN