Day 6 Affinity
This one, again, I had difficulty getting rid of the ellipse of the image. I did much the same as with the previous one, once I had added the masked image to the page, I kept using the brush around it totry and cover that oval shape, I didn't manage to completely hide it, however, I used differing sizes of the brush, and still, the shape wouldn't go away! So, there it is in all its glory.
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These fabulous pieces of pottery were made in New Zealand from the late '40s. They became great 21st gifts, and were sometimes used as vases.
There were male, female and baby swans created in quality white clay, glazes often lead-based, some were finished with a white glaze with a green lustre on the lower part of the swan. Most households in New Zealand had one.By the '80s, these swans were no longer in favour and died out.
They can be found, now, in antique stores with huge price tags.
Day 6 PSP
I had some difficulty creating masks for these two. I don't know why.
These beautiful swans were popular in New Zealand from the late '40s when Crown Lynn began creating them.
By the 1980s, they had lost favour, and eventually Crown Lynn stopped making them.
For the background here, I placed the linoleum page in as a pattern at 20% and poured it onto my page, which meant a smaller linoleum pattern.
I added a preset shape heart and used an AlienSkin glass filter on it, picking out the pale pink in the swan glaze.
Day 7, this has been a great workshop! Thanks Carole for all the time and work you put into this!
The photo as always, is my own. This beautiful bird doesn't show up often and is a treat to see. This one is a male and he was there for a short time one day and gone! We must have been a rest stop for him
I have so many brushes I had to play and settled on the leaf brush instead of a polka dot. The brush is from Frankentoon, the mask is from Sheila Reid.
Here's my layout for Day 6 of the Mask Workshop. Loved how the background paper turned out. Fun new way to make background papers. Thank you for this fun technique!
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