Here are my Ears on Caramello
a pen illustration on brown paper over streaks of white gesso
with the addition of wire mesh on her little white tee
and a bit of fun in Photoshop
Here are my Ears on Caramello belongs to the following groups:
Childhood and Mixed Media Available for sale asGreeting Cards and Matted Prints
Cimmerrian
aww such a cutie !
Karin Taylor
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thank you so much Steve :D
frozenfa
AAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i like this background!!!
hmm.. maybe you can thicken and change the font to black?
cut and paste the font onto another layer.. then add stroke to thicken it abit and color overlay to change the color.. n_n”
Karin Taylor
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oh yes, that would be nice too fa…will try and do that and see how it comes up :D thanks!! great idea :D
Lam Tran
Excellent treatment my friend! Looks excellent, well done!
Mui-Ling Teh
Like it with the stripes behind; like sound waves – maybe in this case it’s long silence.
Karin Taylor
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aw, I love the way you think Mui-Ling….you relate things you see to other things, and it’s very much the way my brain works, linking ideas…I really appreciate what you say always, xo
sparklehen
fantastic!, I love the background, oh I’ve just noticed what you have done to her t-shirt brilliant!
Karin Taylor
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oh thank you very much sparkles…yep i overlaid a bit of mesh on her little tee :D
pinkyjain
Such a cutie pie, adorable
Karin Taylor
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i love caramello bears (chocolate), thank you pinky!
Liesl Yvette W...
I love how cut and pasty it is…love the shirt! really nice little fella!
Karin Taylor
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thank you Liesl :D
Liesl Yvette W...
Hey Karen….do you mind me asking… lay a textured layer underneath the image and then make his face transparent? I really love the effect. I should add that I am a bit of a computer spaz…but then you already knew that.
Karin Taylor
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Hi Liesl, what i first did was to get a layer of brown paper, then paint white acrylic gesso over it in a random fashion, then did a pencil drawing of her, then used a black faber castelle felt pen to draw her outline…..then i photographed her, saved her as a png tshirt file and pulled her over onto my card template. I made the background striped, and the foreground is the cut out girl who was originally made on brown paper. I didn’t make her transparent, it’s just the brown paper and the acrylic gesso showing through. Hope that helps explain what I did a bit better?
Liesl Yvette W...
Cool…thanks for that! Its really interesting to here how people make there art….and thats really effective. And heres me thinking its all photoshop stuff!!!!