Sunday 1 March 2015

In the Style of ...

Hi everyone,

It took me the best part of the week to even decide what to do for htis week's theme - there are just so many possibilities! In the end, I decided to try and emulate the distinctive style of one of my favourite You Tubers, Vicky Pappaioannou.

 Here's what I came up with ...


I love how Vicky builds up layers of texture and colour for the background, using patterned tissue, gesso, Distress Paints and Inks. She creates her whimsical scenes by hand drawing shapes onto patterned paper rather than colouring in and then when everything has had a coat of matte medium, she uses Pitt Big Brush Pens to add shading to all the shapes. Her lettering tends to be black, often with white doodling and she likes to add some 3D embellishments. 

I've spent many happy hours watching Vicky's YT vids - it's always fascinating to watch her work. Hopefully I have captured something of her style in this tag - I certainly had fun trying anyway :o) 

Not sure if I'll be able to play along next week, as I'm going in to hospital for a few days on Wednesday - but I will try really hard to get my tag in before I go! 

Now let's see what everyone else has done - there really was just so much scope with this one!

Annie xxx

9 comments:

  1. Lovely tag. Good luck with the hospital! Hugs, Valerie

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  2. Very beautiful style for your tag. I love the use of the white pen

    Chrissie xx

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  3. This is a beautiful tag Annie.
    Best wishes for your hospital stay :o)

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  4. ps - Wee Man says ~ Thank you very much Annie. Hugs, Wee Man :-D

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  5. Just love your tag, great background and the white pen makes it all pop.

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  6. Very cool tag!!! Best wishes to you concerning the hospital.

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  7. I had to google Vicky's work, gosh, isn't it great? And you are absolutely spot on with your tag.
    Wishing you a speedy recovery from whatever you are going into hospital for. All the best xx

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  8. Pretty tag! Hope everything goes ok at the hospital.

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  9. Beautiful tag!!! I will definitely have to look up Vicky's YT videos.

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