Long time no see LOL I'll end catch-up post after my finals are over ... I just decided to post this now. I'm doing a mail art round robin with painted face envelopes with some other great gals from the Guild. You can see the start of Kelly Snelling's envelope here.
Rather than just paint a plain envie, Michelle Ward's Street Team post got me to thinking about how cool it would be to take advantage of some of the neat textured papers out there and alter them. Here are scans of my original papers.
Here is the back of my envie made with textured paper and molding paste:
And this is the front:
The background had a very earthy feel, so I felt inspired to draw and paint an image of a Native American girl -- cutesy as she is LOL I have a lot to learn about painting faces yet -- but I'm still in that stage where I am amazed it more cloely resembles a human than a Martian LOL
9 comments:
karen - love a decorated envelope! this one is terrific. great idea to Make It Your Own. thanks for sharing with the team...i'm sure you'll inspire others to try it.
What a great idea to use textured paper for the envy. I love your little native american girl.
ooooooo! i love it!!!!! i am already brimming with wild ideas of what to add to it. fun, fun, fun! i can't wait!!
Looks great! I hope to participate in the next one!
Love the textured paper and really like the start of your envelope. I think you did a great job with your painting - your Indian woman has lots of personality.
Joanne
I think your face turned out just grand and I can't wait to get my hands on this envie!
Michelle
That's very cool - how exciting to get a fancy envie in the mail, I'd be all anxious wonderign what was in it. I think your girl turned out just fine.
I was looking for this to arrive in mailbox today but alas it didn't. Great job.
jan
Nice work! I love the texture.
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