ATC Vintage Nudes Swap

Last weekend I created a beautiful piece of artist paper made up form several layers, with different techniques. Is was blue and I was wondering what to use it for. And then I entered the 'vintage nudes' swap and found a picture of aphrodite.

Then I knew what to do with it. I cut it in ATC sized pieces. This altered picture from aphrodite is my first time of altering a picture. And I had a lot of fun doing that. First I printed the picture out and sprayed a layer of laque on it to prevent it from bleeding too much. Then I used my Derwent Inktens pencils to add more colour to the hair (and more hair to cover a different part of the picture), I changed her 'skirt' and added white dots to her pearl necklace with a white gel pen.

Finally I painted the waves (acrylics and Inktense pencils and a gold pencil), let them dry, cut them out, and put a thick layer of white paint around some of the edges of the waves. I glued the waves on the card with matte gel medium and covered the whole card with it.