fishing thank you cards

I'd better be a good person and send a thank-you note to Marie and Terry for taking me along on their fishing trip in Valdez, Alaska. Right? Might as well make it too. Right? I taped and background painted two 4x6" Strathmore cards. Added a bubble wrap paint layer because it often reminds me of fish scales, but I used the sparkly mineral paint and that was too dark. Decided to fix it all with a stencil of a fish. So I had to cut a stencil of a generic fish. Couldn't quite do a silver salmon. Gelli'd the fish. Didn't like because my fish stencil was a big juvenile and clunky so I gelli'd a couple of layers on top of each other and offset then a bit to some dimension maybe. When dried, added some watercolor and a tiny bit of white gouache for the fish eyes. Kind of happy with these. The sparkly mineral paint shines through from underneath and doesn't overwhelm like it did at first. Layers layers layers layers. Don't like it? Add more layers! I'm putting these here so that after I send them away I can still look at them and like them. The bubble wrap layers still show through a tiny bit that probably no one will notice but I love that technique so much.

Off to drop them in the mail!