27-Jan-2020-Paintstroke

My father worked on the space program - IBM made the instrumentation unit, the thin black ring at the top of the rocket. He was at the Cape for all the launches, but this one was special.

This was SO hard for me. I never could figure out how to do some of it so I improvised. Here is the original picture for comparison. I put Gesso and paint strokes on the smoke from liftoff, then applied the Divide blend mode.


From The challenge kit by NBK – one background paper, Paint strokes 1 & 4, and Gesso Paints 6, 7, 8, 9. I placed the paints on the smoke from liftoff, applied Divide blending mode to some, others I adjusted opacity. I applied craquelure texturizer to the photo itself.
Background is a paper recolored from Amy Wolff Mega Solids Vol. 5
Graffiti – Bella Gypsy Twinkle Bundle
Font am-type
Photo courtesy of NASA and in the public domain