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ICAD 2019, Card #47 – Turnpike

Just a quick post today.  I want to feature a few individual cards that I made from the 2019 ICAD challenge and the technique or inspiration behind them.  Up first is the card from day 47, the prompt “turnpike.”  I have an unexplained fascination with outrageous 1950s cars.  I’m not a gearhead at all, my interest is in the exterior design – the bigger the fins on the taillights, the better!  One of my favorite 1950s cars is the 1958 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser, so I naturally thought of this car when deciding what to do with the prompt.

 

My process for the card used a photo that I took of the taillight of a ’58 Turnpike Cruiser (above left).  I made a black and white copy of my image, using the photo setting on the copier and lightening the copy (center image).  Then, I simply tinted the copy with colored pencils (right image).  I think that the tinted copy looks better than the original photo.  Many antique postcards were colored with a similar technique, and hand tinting black and white photos continues to be at technique  occasionally used by photographers today.  I’d like to try the technique on an image printed on fabric.  Colored pencils apply nicely to fabric, I recommend brushing a textile medium over any areas drawn on with pencils.

Next time, another ICAD card feature, and some stitching.