No card tutorial for today.  I really needed to work on this fish.  I’m off to the Art & Soul Retreat in California in a couple of weeks.  Apparently, when you sign up for the retreat they send you a white ceramic fish and you are suppose to alter it and bring it with you for display at the retreat, yikes!  Well I altered mine alright, pretty wacky huh?

Anyway, just wanted to share my fish with you.  Like I said in a previous post, you all are my friends now and I will share with you the good projects and the bad, lol.  It is painted entirely with Alcohol inks.  I didn’t even use a paint brush, just dropped the color on and held the fish at different angles to get some of the ink to run.  The gold was just dropped on too.  Once the fish was colored I decided to stamp the bird on it.  I used an unmounted stamp with no mount so I could get the stamp to bend with the fish, KWIM.  Since I was using Alcohol inks I was able to use my Prismacolor Blending marker to lift the color off on the bird where I wanted it to be white.  I thought that was pretty cleaver of me, lol.  I also used the blending marker to make swirls in the blue area.   I did add highlights on the bird with a white gel pen, you know I had to use my gel pen, lol. 

Well I have to say, my fish will not come out from hiding until I see some of the other fish on display!  I’m such a chicken 🙂

I think tomorrow I will be making my calling cards for the retreat, so I will have something on hand to give to folks when they want to swap addresses/e-mails.  Of course they will be stamped, so stay tuned.

Hope your projects today come out less wacky than my fish!

Until tomorrow. . . . . . . . . . . .