Altered Silver

For this odd spread, I drew the letters in pencil, then colored them gently with crayons. To fill in the crayon, I went over the colored areas with a slightly different watercolor hue. The inner sections were colored with yellow-orange crayon followed by yellow watercolor, the letters with blue crayon then green watercolor, and the borders with purple crayon and blue watercolor. The variation in the hues makes a nice effect that unfortunately isn't very visible in the photo.

The final touch was rubber stamped (in green), to ensure that the letter F would never be confused with the letter E. ;)



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