LB2015 : Affirmation Feather

In the same week as the mixed media dream catcher lesson in Life Book,  Tam surprised us with an unscheduled bonus lesson. We started again with lovely Dylusions sprays

Some collage

And then we drew our feather....Tam coloured hers with watersoluble markers, but I don't own any of those, so used what I had. First watercolour paint

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You can achieve lovely effects by adding different media - I wanted to define some of the feathers so added watercolour pencil which I then blended with water

and then the feather needed a bit more bright, so I used a wet paintbrush to take colour off a watersoluble crayon and then paint that on some of the strands

Ready for highlights and meaningful words

I might have called this done, but I felt like it needed "something"...Tam added paint splatters to hers, but I was too worried I'd spoil it. Walked away and when I returned, I saw other work on my desk and realised it was obvious what my piece was missing : always add stitch

Now I'm happy to say it's finished

You can see all my posts about Life Book HERE and I've created a Flickr album for all my Life Book projects HERE. These are the 5 projects I've created so far 

Thinking I might have to change my colour palette, or at least extend it for the next lesson...let's see how I go with that challenge ;-)