Tuesday Technique'N: Altering Postcards with Guest Artist Lee Kreklewetz

Altering Postcards

[Text & Photos by Lee Kreklewetz]

Lee Kreklewetz

Is a self-taught mixed media artist

Who loves to paint, sketch and alter anything!

You can visit her blog at

http://leekre.blogspot.com/

Supplies:

Watercolor paint, acrylics, markers, pan pastels, pencil,

You can basically use anything you want on this project.

All I used was a pencil, markers, and one pan pastel.

Now let's get started:

Original Picture Postcard

Two ways you can do this:

work on the original postcard,

or

do a photo transfer.

I chose to do a photo transfer,

only because

I don’t have that postcard anymore.

Now you can see

that the photo transfer was not great-- 

it never is for me.

So all I did was take my pencil and outline it.

So to see where I am going,

I decided to paint in the sky.

I used pan pastels

But you could use anything,

blue markers, watercolor crayons, anything.

I decided that I did not want

to make them look

the same as the postcard.

So I determined that one needed a blouse,

one needed a full swimsuit,

and I added different straps to the other one. 

I started with my markers and just

went with it.

Here is a hint:

all the white you see in this picture is

a white out (correction) pen.

I use them all the time -- 

they give me the colour I want.

I started to colour in the sand and

really was not happy with it.

Don’t get upset

 if you make a mistake -- 

just change it up and that’s what I did.

As you can see,

the sand is still not looking right,

but don’t worry about it.

I went right on painting the flesh tones

and finishing up and then it came to me.

If they

were sitting on the beach.

they would be sitting on beach towels!

And you know what?

I think those beach towels

added what was missing .

See it looks different from the

original picture.

and it’s your art.

One tip:

if you are going to work

directly on the picture,

I would rough it up a bit with sandpaper,

so its not smooth.

If you try this technique,

I would love to see it!

Drop me a line at my blog

and I will come over and have a look.

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THANK YOU, LEE!!!