Autumn in the moonlight

A friend of mine from my Stampscapes II Yahoo group sent me a link to an amazing blog What Michelle Zindorf does with a brayer is amazing.

So I was inspired to create something of my own. All stamps are from Stampscapes. I stamped the tree and bank on matte coated card stock and colored the tree with my Copics using Y38 Honey and R05 Salmon Red. For the trunk, I used E35 Chamois. Next, using a stamp positioner, I stamped over the tree again with Versamark, and then clear embossed it. This acts as a resist to the brayered ink. Using a piece of Eclipse tape, I punched out a circle for the moon and then a long piece to create a horizon line. I then brayered color into the sky using a Kaleidacolor Blue Breeze ink pad. I turned the horizon mask around and placed the mask from the moon into the water area. This time I used my Copic airbrush and markers, B00 Frost Blue and B02 Robin's Egg blue to color the water. After removing the masks, I took my B00 Frost Blue and streaked some color across the moon reflection. I discovered that the marker would lift the color off the paper in the airbrushed areas (because I was using matte paper). It gave it a very nice water pattern. Next step was to add color to the grass using YG63 Pea Green. Again because I used matte coated paper, you cannot blend Copics, they dry too fast and just streak. So I had to use long continuous strokes in the grass. I finished with E70 Ash Rose for the rocks. The last step was to add the foliage and the white dots in the sky as well as on the branches. I had to heat set the color a lot to get it to dry and still managed to smear it a little but I am thrilled with my first attempt and can't wait to try more.

Here is my second attempt, this time I used Curious Cryogen White paper. You can not brayer as smoothly on this paper but it still came out nicely. I airbrushed the water, the grass and the darker oval around the outer edge.

I think I prefer the first version myself.