A strange view of "Old Hollywood"

I made this art for a swap for my facebook group. I did not entirely intend to sign up for this swap, I spent a long time avoiding getting started. I kept thinking I would do an image transfer and intensify the contrast with paint or whatever and keep it at that. But it was boring to me so I avoided it, and avoided it, and avoided it and.. you get the point.

So, the Documented Life Project is a group on facebook. They do weekly prompts. I will be completely honest and say I am not keeping up with them, but occasionally the prompts will inspire something else, something completely different, and I use them to "begin" projects.

So, here I was. Tonight, sitting. I had been browsing through the DLP feed, looking at a lot of splattery-drippy art. I had printed out some old hollywood actresses, I decided to just go for it. I started to spatter and flick and drip watercolor, I smeared some inktense across the wet drips and extra water, I used some gelatos, the background was fun. Once the background was done, dryish, I decided to try my first inkjet printed image transfer. Here was the result. 

At this point, it looks good. Its not dramatic enough for me, so, I attempt to play up the contrast, and add extra drippy splatterness. 

almost there! Added pen, added black watercolor to her body area, it went crazy! The paper was left after the image transfer it soaked 

I don't know why I felt like it had to have purple... but I so did. I could not stop myself. Anyway, I hope my partner will enjoy my strange interpretation of the "Old Hollywood" theme. I had fun making it.