Ok here are my next efforts at Zentangle. Like the modern feel of these and have a whole more textures I want to try out. Am sure that it will benefit me down the way to have more strokes in my arsenal.
Her Highness mixed media woman portrait
Her Highness I just absolutely loved the expression on this lady and knew I wanted to try to capture her elegance and serenity. I knew that I didn't want an exact portrait and decided to try another mixed media piece. I added blobs of paint and used my large scraper to make the areas of color. Just put paint on a piece of watercolor paper. Then I inscribed and mixed the colors together with the end of my brush and got all the wavy lines (in real life they actually stand up so there is a 3D effect to the background). Where I thought I wanted the face I really scraped most of the paint off, and ended up with color blotches and tones, and if you look in the forehead you can sort of see the design that was left. I thought it would add some variance to the skin tones. I also want to keep her very soft so I tried to stay in the pastel tones, even with the lips. Once I got shadows and lights added in, and went over it with some skin tone and more blue colors I let
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I took a G-mail account and now everything is a mess. I can't e-mail anymore or read my e-mails. So I have to figure out what to do next... Computers grrrr I will make a new G-mail account within 5 minutes so you know. The adress will be: renatewilbert@gmail.com
Miss you a lot. Big hugsxxx
btw I never use my google email, though I will have to business wise in the future. but I can say I am very very happy with my yahoo account which works wonderful since years.