Just Bloom
For Mother's Day I got the house to myself for 7 whole hours to make art. I was inspired by Lioba Brückner, who has made some amazing pieces with alcohol markers and colored pencil, and decided to give it a try on this portrait of Rupi Kaur that I have had in my head for awhile. I really liked this excerpt from a poem from Milk and Honey and wanted to incorporate her words with her portrait. I've only used my markers one other time on a quick sketch, but instead of practicing and getting the hang of them before this piece, I decided to use this piece AS the practice (afterall, I only had one afternoon to get it done!). As it turns out, that was perhaps not the best plan, but I did certainly learn a lot (and ended up with a very streaky face baselayer). The colored pencil on top became essential to try to fix some of that streakiness, and overall I'm happy with how it turned out. I wanted the silver lettering to be more metallic, but the paint I had ended up not being right,...
