She-Tribe with Mama

It’s Mother’s Day today! Happy Mother’s Day to all moms, mums and mamas out there! I want to share a painting I made in dedication to my late mother based on a tutorial I followed with Tracy Verdugo “Stories of a She-Tribe”. It was my second attempt at this tutorial as you see from my earlier work, She Tribe Creatures. As for this new one, what better team of “she-tribes” can you get than mother and daughter together!

The Background

With my acrylic ink in Antelope Brown, I scribbled in my message to my mother and a few hearts around it in Paynes Grey. The colours were then spread out with a wet brush. This time, I made the message large enough to fill the paper and made bigger blobs with the wet brush. Once dry, I glued on some collages of scrap deli paper and paper napkins as…