(adjusted price....$30.00)
"Working from simple to complex is a way of lowering stress levels." I had a very wise lettering instructor who was teaching how to letter on gessoed and primed surfaces. She admonished us from the beginning of any design to keep it simple because it will get more complicated as you go along. That lady was Hazel Dolby. That bit of wisdom has proven to be correct.
When working with moving color by using a pouring medium, most of the edges will be softly diffused. For that reason, it is not a bad idea to add lettering simply as a design element (not meant to be read) or to actually do some hand written lettering . This brings some hard edges to contrast with all of those soft edges.
In this piece, lettering was transferred from a copy out of my ink jet printer. The key is to brush on a bit of pouring medium straight from the bottle (with no color added) on the portion of your piece where you want to transfer. Let it dry a minute or two and then lay the copy down and rub over the paper with the lettering. If some of the paper sticks to the surface, simply dip a brush in water and gently remove it. Spray with acrylic coating.
The transferred print in this piece is a typed version of the quote....only backwards. I guess if you want it to be read, you would need to type it backwards. Just something to think about.
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