Wednesday 5 February 2014

Circus Scene

After making the previous card, I thought it would be fun to do a little circus scene in true Clarity style.


This is what I created. There's a lot of masking involved!

I started off by stamping and masking the ringmaster. I could then stamp the tent behind him and when that was masked, the trees could be done. Archival ink was used for all of these. I know you shouldn't use it with ProMarkers but I left it to dry overnight and was careful not to disturb the ink too much when I coloured him in.

The circus wagon was stamped in black Adirondack as there was a lot of ProMarker colouring to be done on that and I wasn't so bothered about it being really black.


I did however want the horses stamped in Archival so I coloured the yellow background in before I stamped them. When I'd finished colouring it was still looking a bit plain so I added the crackle stamp on top.

The bunting was stamped across the top and I masked off the surrounding letters with Post-its so that I could ink up each individual letter of the word CIRCUS.

Then everything was masked off so that I could add the scenery. I used a mixture of my brayer, sponges and brushes to do this. To save myself some really fiddly masking I only masked off the body of the wagon. I then coloured the wheels in black and added the black horse.

To make the tent stand out a bit more I added a line of black around it with a fine Micron pen.

I think that, like the other one, it has the look of a poster about it.

Stamps Used
Large Horse - Diamond Horse
Small Horses from the Best of the Classroom Set

Lynne
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4 comments:

  1. Fabulous Lynne I love it and such a lot of masking as you sayxx

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  2. This is lovely Lynne, well worth the effort of all the msskomng. Thank you for sharing your method with us

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  3. Oh Lynne you are so good at these scenes. Yes it does look like a poster and I love it.

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  4. Brilliant Lynne, and all that work....I would have spoilt it and got ink on it at the end....a great example of a Clarity Scene....xx

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