Now which one to use…

You can see I was experimenting, 

trying to create a slice of land in the background. 

This way up?

Or this? Mmmm….

Yep. Can you see what I see?

When Grace called last night, she was twittering and chattering, and I have to tell you, if the NEC Trade Show weren’t this weekend,  I would have been booking a last minute flight to the Big Apple, to give her a big hug!

So our Hot Air balloon it is then.

Comes with a little silhouette and an anchor!

Now let’s define the background .

Out with a brush and torn paper.

Tumbled Glass is a good colour

Another brush, another hill, Dusty Concord is a great colour.

Let’s add some depth with pencils.

Spectrum Noirs and Polychromos are my choice.

Time to trim the artwork back some.

We sell a Fiskars trimmer, which I recommend.

Now to create a vignette , a shaded edge.

Slate Adirondack on the blending mat, 

and then use the mini blending tool to work around the edges.

Now do you see what I saw?

Let’s add more depth, by adding a few trees at the front.

This lovely tree is from the Wee trees set:

Ink blot plot the ones at the back along a piece of torn paper.

So you have this:

Now add the first generation trees at the front 

and along the front edge.

So you have this:

Mount on white and I think we’re almost done.

Add a waterline by sweeping Tumbled Glass along 

a straight piece of copy paper with a make-up sponge.

Hope you like it. 

If you had to give this piece a title, what would you call it?

Ann Upupandaway has been taken!