February 5, 2014 Vintage Blast

When you tell yourself you can’t, you won’t!

Quote for Today: From BrainyQuote

My dear wife (DW) says I am a brute for punishment. Many of the images I pick to do are anything but easy. It may be so but life is a challenge. If you hesitate or turn away from doing something challenging you are cheating yourself out of a life experience. There are many ways to express that sentiment but the best is something shared on one of my posts. If it wasn't, oh well, and if it was here it is anyway. "You can do anything you set your mind to. You may not do it well but you CAN do it" As a follow up "If you tell yourself you can't do it, you have already failed. " There are physical limitations, Men/women, but otherwise nothing is impossible.

I know that all things are possible through Jesus Christ.
Jason Derulo 

  

I have just finish two images that will illustrate that point. I very nearly skipped doing these two because they were a challenge. It was about 2 days on the two images. You decide which one took longer. “You full buffalo dung!” Hello Cherokee. What are you doing here? “Cherokee put on quietest moccasins and sneak out so maw squaw not hear. Just want stop and tell people in magic box HI!” That’s nice of you but why am I full of buffalo dung? “Just are! When take off moccasins sure smell like step in it.” Good bye Cherokee. Nice of you to stop by. “Cherokee talk later. Send Instagram smoke signal. You tell squaws in magic box Cherokee say hello. Must sneak back into tee-pee before missed.” I still don’t know how they do that Instagram smoke signal.

Back to the task at hand. The first one is from Digital Two For Tuesday. Enjoy.

Copic Colors: atyou Spica 08 Turquoise & 18 Baby Blue, R24, R35, YR12, YR18, B000, B01, BG07, G94, W3, 100, G94, E13, E19, E08, E30, E33, E34, E40, E70

This is a photo of the colored image. As you can see there are sparkly spots on the birds. On rare occasions when I use glitter pens, some of the glitter actually shows. This is one of those occasions. The seemingly black lines all over the bird are in reality a brilliant shade of blue in the sun. Spectacular and the reason it was decided to do these birds. Since they must fit on a 4X6 card this was a difficult image to do. I took frequent breaks to keep from going cross eyed.

The next image was a test of shades to use to maintain the vintage look of the image. That may sound easy but give the number of colors used it isn't. That is part of the fascination with doing vintage. Here we go.

Copic Colors: YG07, YG93, BG96, T4, T6, W1, B0000, B000, B00, B04, R29, R85, R0000, R000, R12, R00, Y23, Y28, E09, E57

This image may look familiar to you. It is from my side bar. It is a free vintage image from Free Vintage Digital Stamps. God, that is a favorite place of mine. This image presents several problems. It represents a curved surface. I you aren't paying attention to the light and shadow on a curved surface you will not be getting the effects you are expecting. It is vintage image. be mindful of color choices. Depending on the image and the era the colors will not be bright and glowing but softer. I usually research a little before doing the coloring on an image like this but this one just felt right with these colors.

Well, except for a short visit from Cherokee this is it for today. Spent the first part of my day shoveling again. Tonight will be Bengay and and heating pad time. Tomorrow will be tough to get out of bed again. Can't walk my 5 to 15 miles. Can't drive to the mall to walk. Probably shovel some more to get the cars out, do some more Bengay, groan a lot. and talk with you all. LOL.

Just remember, this is a good time time to curl up with a good book, or maybe THE GOOD BOOK, or just maybe, spend some time checking out each other's creations and commenting. As you can see, just LOVE THE DETAILS.