Text in an image

I am very happy with the progress I made with this image in the short amount of time we had to create it, although it is incomplete I think my intentions with this image are clear.
I would love to go back to this image at a later date when I have time and complete it so that I can see the final result and make my judgement on it, once I have done this I will reverse the image and instead of surrounding the object of the image with the words "hello sailor" I will cover the object of the image.