Friday, September 05, 2014

Mix-Ability - nondominant hand doodling

It's my turn to host the Mix-Ability challenge this week! I'm pushing everyone out of their comfort zones this week... the challenge is to add some doodles to your mixed-media project using your non-dominant hand. I read an article recently where the author talks about using the non-dominant hand "to silence our inner critic" - in her exercise she outlined images with her left hand, and found that instead of drawing from memory she was really forced to look at the actual objects she was drawing. That helped her to really see the object, and let go of her usually 'programmed' process. Interesting!


I didn't draw an outlined image on my card but I did add some gold highlights to the petals of a debossed poinsettia. I am a recovering perfectionist, and I loved the looseness that I was able to achieve with my right hand on these lines.


Here's the full card - the poinsettia outline was made with a gorgeous new die from Penny Black, which I debossed into a Fabriano watercolor card. I used watercolors to layer color into the outline until I got the effect I wanted.


More shading and shadows were added with a water-soluble graphite pencil. To add more texture to the background, I flicked a waterbrush over the tip of the graphite pencil, and also rolled a roll of drywall tape  through some wet graphite and then onto the card.

Come and play!
Thanks for stopping by!

14 comments:

  1. Dina, this is fabulous. Love how the gold on the debossed poinsettia looks. Sounds like a fun challenge.

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  2. Hi Dina, this is gorgeous. I the simple image with WOW!impact, and this poinsettia did just that. the water color is beautiful.....have a good day.

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  3. Love this technique Dina! I pinned it. :) Now...if I can just find time to try it!! It's on my list.

    Take care and STAY POSITIVE!

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  4. This is just gorgeous!

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  5. Beautifully done Dina....will have to give this challenge a try....really sounds hard to use the other hand to draw!
    Hugs,
    Jan

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  6. Wow, I'm (almost) speechless! I could never have guessed how you achieved this look. I shall be looking at all my dies with an eye for this debossing technique.
    Amazing.

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  7. Awesome!!!Thanks for sharing!!!

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  8. Your water coloring rocks Dina!!

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  9. Stunning Dina, this is absolutely gorgeous! I love this technique and the touch of gold in the flower petals is the perfect touch to a fabulous card! I love the script sentiment, do you mind sharing which stamp that is. Hugs, Jerri

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  10. I would have sworn the flower had been cut out and mounted it looked so 3-D with your beautiful coloring. You're amazing. Thanks for sharing your talent. Hugs

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  11. WOWZERS! This is Gorgeous!

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  12. A simply stunning card! Love the look of the debossing.

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  13. Holly Saveur9/07/2014 10:50 AM

    Stunning..would love to see a video of how you made this card...please??

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