Concentration #9

For this project I wanted to try the process of painting over text. I wrote my poem on a google doc and then chose a font that would work with my poem. I wanted the font to be elegant, yet legible. I chose the font "Allura" because it was cursive, but wasn't too fancy to become illegible. I printed the poem on watercolor paper in order to be able to paint over it. I decided that because my poem is about the human body, that I would paint a torso over the text. To make the composition of the piece more complex I sketched the torso upside-down compared to the poem. As I started to paint with the watercolor over the text I realized that the ink was bleeding. I tried my best to cover up the bleeding with more watercolor, but it made spots darker than I would've liked.