Ethan is the youngest of Matthew and Christina’s children at 4 years old. He’s a going concern – I was tempted to use a superhero theme but I didn’t want to encourage any more “flying” attempts. I settled on a racecar theme using fall colors. I love, love, love this picture of Ethan – he seems to be clasping his hands in an attempt to keep himself still!
Now, for those of you that have an interest in the techniques used…
- I used the transfer technique described April 6th to begin.
- Then I applied all of the paint using black, transparent red iron oxide, green gold, and quinacridone crimson. I kept the painting loose everywhere except for the black track.
- I printed and cut out the clipart cars and decided on their placement. I had one challenge before the transfer would work – the cars wouldn’t show up on the black track. I thought about painting the shapes of the cars onto the track in white but that’s pretty tedious. Instead, I painted titanium white directly onto the car shapes just before I heat transferred them. The white was trapped between the two layers of the gel medium and it made a great backdrop for the colors of the cars.
- After I rubbed the paper backings off the transfers I touched up the black paint, stamped Ethan’s name, and used some white conte to provide highlights on the tires and lighten parts of the track.
I hope you all had a great Easter – He is risen indeed!
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