May 5, 2010

My Last-Minute Mother’s Day Gift

My father scanned our family photos last year, and I’ve been dying to play around with them ever since. This image had lost a lot of it’s original color, but I had fun handpainting it back in. (Just for the record, I'm the cute one in the chair.)
1. I printed my scanned photo onto watercolor paper, using my Epson Photo 1440 printer. A high-resolution setting is best to get a nice, bright image.
2. I used Prismacolor® Watercolor pencils to add color to the picture edges. Try to match the colors and shapes that are started in the photo. Color can be added inside the picture as well, as I did with the sky and skin tones.
3. Brush the drawing with water to turn it into a painting.

4 comments:

Dana @ Our Sunny Side said...

Wonderful idea! I love your site!

Art Spectrum said...

What a great idea!

I've awarded you the Kreativ blogger award over at my blog! Thank you for all of your wonderful ideas!

Your Award!You don't have to do all the stuff that goes with it. I just wanted to show my appreciation. (Especially during teacher appreciation week:))

Have a great day!

Anonymous said...

That is so cool! What a fantasitc idea and it came out so well!

Nicole said...

Did the color bead up on the part of the picture with ink on it? I've tried this before and had this problem, but maybe I was dealing with a too-dark picture, resulting in too much ink for the color to take well.

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