Got some time in for the second part of the exercise set by Marissa, this one was an eagle that started off very well from the beak and the eye, then went down hill fast for the feathers.....damn feathers are tricky! This almost went in the bin as I was getting lost and over working it, I had great guidance from the lady herself but thought I was at the point of no return!
The secret to doing the feathers in the case of a monochrome is painting in the dark areas between the feathers and then erasing the overspray for texture,well that's what you are supposed to do
. Just before I was about to bin it I got out the fibre glass eraser and just scratched away.....then viola...it started to look ok...not brilliant and not up to close scrutiny but ok.
So I didn't bin it put a bit more paint in the brush and tweaked it some more, so the lesson there is don't give up to soon on your painting as you may always even by some happy mistake pull it back, so not perfect but still worth showing warts an all
The other little bit of work is a kind of experiment on a phone case just to see how the paint reacted with a view to doing another design on a mates phone case.
It's all Etac and I just lightly scuffed with a grey scotch brite painted and couple of coats of clear, ok so far, but next time I may use a plastic primer on it first, it is a phone case so I don't think even with the best will in the world it's not going to get scuffed to excrement in and out of pockets and dropped a few times, but once the money is in my hands that's his look out hahaha!