This page is a split content with the top picture relating the the verse highlighted in blue and the bottom one relating to the yellow highlighted verse. Both, however, were done basically the same way.
1) Protect the page with clear gesso.
2) Draw/trace the outline of the image with Inktense pencils (and watercolor pencil for the flesh color). Blend with waterbrush.
3) Add background color. This time I used Distress Oxide ink on craft sheet & add carefully with watercolor brush blending from the outside to make it lighter around the image. This was my first time using distress oxides in my bible, but I like they opaque nature of them & the way they blend. However, I was a bit concerned when they seemed to want to continue to come off on my hands if I touched anything - even after trying to heat set it a bit with my Ranger heat tool. I believe this is what caused the issue with the brown marker (see #4 below)
4) Add words with Pitt pens. NOTE: For the bottom picture, I first wrote the words with a very fine-line water based brown marker - but came back later to see that it had bled into the inked background. SO, I went over the words with a fine Pitt pen at a later date.
5) Add some washi tape to create a border between the two pictures.
I was really glad to see that though the distress oxide ink didn't initially seem to want to set & caused the brown ink to bleed a bit, after I set the page aside for several days, the ink was completely set and is causing no issues. It just seems to take much longer to dry/set (at least over the gesso!) than other mediums I've used.
I was really glad to see that though the distress oxide ink didn't initially seem to want to set & caused the brown ink to bleed a bit, after I set the page aside for several days, the ink was completely set and is causing no issues. It just seems to take much longer to dry/set (at least over the gesso!) than other mediums I've used.
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