May 30th, 2009 
Kandra Well I’ve already completed one thing on my list of goals I’ve set for the summer! I took each of the pictures below of my great kids from our huge stash of photos and followed a great tutorial on how to use watercolor masking to make these awesome pieces of art!
This was my first one to attempt. I took a pic of Kacie in her dance costume for the recent recital.
I cropped it to show her face (and attitude), used photoshop to play with brightness and contrast, printed it and put it on my lightbox. After using the masking on my watercolor paper I painted away with blues and greens.
We loved how it turned out – so I had to try one with Shawn. This is a pic of him doing the “Boom, Boom – Firepower” thing you see on Night at the Museum 2! LOL He’s so funny.
I zoomed in again to crop his face and then got a little artsy with my rays and went witht he yellows and oranges!
This is definately something I’ll do again. I absolutely have fallen in love how abstract they are! I think they would make great personalized presents for family and friends!
Keep Kraftin’,
Kandra
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This is so cool! I have never seen anything like this!
Wow! Those turned out so cool. I love their expressions and the colors. What an interesting technique.
Omg!!!!I like kacie’s i already went to her website its so cool!!!
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I really like your daughter’s portrait… she looks sassy!
You did a great job on her brother too!
That is a fabulous idea. And they look great.
So Cool!!! i showed my mom and all she could say was WOW :0!!! we are going to try it!!!we will see how it turns out ,but it wont be as good as yours!!!:)