A Scene: Brayering, Sponging and Masking
Making this was such a therapeutic process! I really “got into it” if you know what I mean. I used resist embossing, brayered ink, sponging and masking to create the scene. I made this for our Twisted Sistah challenge a week and a half ago. I really enjoy making scenes, but I haven’t done very many. I need to practice!! Here are the main steps of how I made this one. I loaded the bird image stamp first in versamark ink, then in jet black Archival ink, stamped it and clear embossed it. I colored it in using a blender pen and watercolor wonder crayons. I repeated the same process with the birdhouse and smaller bird in the top corner. I first had a look at where the tree limb would hang, to figure out how I would place these, so they would look like they were on the branch and not in midair somewhere. Once they were colored, I used my versamarker to fill in the colored areas and clear embossed them too. Now …