Sea Dragon

Hi everyone and a Happy New Year! In last weeks post I had mentioned that I was totally out of sync coloring and I decided to really 'play' with the Copic colors. I had not had a chance to play with Jennifer Nilssons beautiful images from Plate #80, in particular this adorable little Sea Dragon:

I just let my fingers pick the colors and for once didn't worry about getting the shading right (because I never do, lo). For the background I also used Copic YR01 then went over it with the Blender pen pushing the colors towards the image.

Unfortunately I cut into the fish and the tail but salvaged the image by adding rhinestones.

I'm not particularly fond of these rhinestone 'strips' because of the glossy panel they come on but it sure is easier on the fingers. I used up some old adhesive backed ribbon and paired this image with one of the sentiments from Simply Vertical, cutting it apart in an attempt to achieve some balance.

Thanks for stopping by and check out the rest of the gorgeous images that come on Plate #80.