I am enrolled in Sandy Allnock’s (self-paced) Underwater Scenes Copic mini-course at art-classes.com, and back in the fall while I was off my feet recovering from ankle surgery, I completed the first lesson (the shallows):
I LOVED it (and I was so impressed at what I’d made), but then I got busy with other things and didn’t come back to the class until just a few days ago. I wanted to make a special birthday card for a dear friend, and I had an idea in mind, but I needed to do the second lesson!
While my kids played outside, I sat at the dining room table where I could keep an eye on them, and I worked through lesson 2 (the surface). I have to admit, at first I was pretty intimidated by the thought of creating realistic water surface and bubbles, but Sandy makes it so straightforward and approachable in the class! I made two small attempts– the second one in a more “tropical” set of colors…
…and when I was finished, I just kinda sat there in shock for a bit after I saw what I’d made, haha!!
As you can see in the photo above showing my in-progress work, I was making these with a card design in mind. After I finished my water, I trimmed the two strips into vertical panels. I colored one of the cute mermaids from Lawn Fawn’s “Mermaid for You” set (also with my Copics and white gel pen accents) and added her (with foam) to make it look like she was joyfully leaping above the wave.
On the inside, I added my sentiment. I didn’t have the phrase I wanted in the set, so I hand-wrote “mermazing” in the style of Lawn Fawn’s script, and I used some other sentiment stamps to add “You’re” and “Happy Birthday” above and below!
