Ancient Art Revisited

For years I've been missing the deadline for the local Artist Club's "Adult Artist Exhibit", so when my friend reminded me AND they extended the deadline, I wanted to try to put something in  -- but of course everything just went to the Art Bazaar......

Time for some more digging - And I found a piece I worked on quite a bit many years ago, in fact I think we might not even have moved to North Carolina yet - which makes it over 20 years (!). I wrote with resist (masking fluid) and because of the colored paper the writing didn't show up well enough so I had tried various things like touching it up with colored pencil . Then when that didn't work and I tried using paint over the letters, because of the pencil it was repelled and made a mess, so I gave it up and put it away.

very old, early effort

Well, many years later I feel much more confident in writing on difficult surfaces. And I figured using a wider pen would let me do a little fixing of those early letters. Unfortunately, it didn't let me change poor spacing, but I still had a great time redoing it and think it's not too bad -

redone as-good-as-it-will-get version

At any rate, I had a fun time coming up with a completed piece in just a couple of hours (plus or minus a couple of decades).