Showing posts with label canvas Board. Show all posts
Showing posts with label canvas Board. Show all posts

Sunday, 10 November 2024

POST GRUNGE- MIXED MEDIA DECADENCE WITH FINNABAIR


Class one - Steampunk cockapoo


Re-design by Prima, fibre image, dog and butterfly wings.


Stuck on a canvas with soft gel and then whilst edges are still wet, pull out the fibres and then paint over with a coat of soft gel.


Janet drying her canvas after coating it with soft gel.


Next steps, the wings.


The shop set up.


Everyone having a great morning.  Huge room, very spacious.


Cut the wings out and then cut around the dogs head / ears.  Draw round the wings.


Blending the background colours into the canvas with a kitchen sponge and impasto paints.


Then trying to remember where the wings go, paint those parts with white gesso.


Filling in the gaps where the wings don't quite fit with impasto paint.


Wings are stuck down and started to add embellishments.


Anna demoing adding the acrylic paint with the sponges to blend the background more.


And finally added the clear domes.


Our table adding the final touches.


This is my finished piece - I LOVE it


Class two - Resist Panel (Darker shade of Gold)


Cover a portion of the substrate with white gesso.  Use soft gel through a stencil to create a resist.


Everyone creating their resist.


Then chose the top paper to cover over the gesso and created a wash for the bottom with acrylic paints (black and burnt sienna).


 Started to build up the composition.


Glued everything down with heavy body gel and added a couple of thin coats of white gesso drying in between.


Our table of creativity.


And just to prove that I was actually there!!


Gave everything a good heavy coating of black gold wax and then touched up with honey.  Used black and brown mix of acrylic paint to add shadows (not very good at that bit).


I painted and waxed the main image in acid and lime green as a contrast.


I added green paint to small areas of the composition so it followed through.


Added some lime green splatters.


I added some of the black gold wax onto the skull and filled in the eye sockets.


When I got home I added the Tim Holtz words.

Had an absolutely fabulous day.

Sunday, 4 April 2021

Canvas

 

I stencilled black modelling paste onto a canvas board.


Whilst it was drying, I laid out a few of the resin mould pieces.


I coloured the canvas board with metallic paints.


I gave all the pieces a coat of black powertex.


I'm not sure if you can see any difference on this photo, but I went over the raised areas with oxynite treasure gold, which is like a metallic brown colour.


Next I added waxes to the powertexed mould pieces.


I felt I needed something to tie everything in, so I used some gold coloured gilding flakes on the cogs.


This photo was taken out of the sun.


Close up of the chain, cog frame and skull.


Close up of flower on frame.

Thursday, 4 February 2021

EYE - Less

Over on the Powertex Australia Friday Live, this week Ashley was playing with 'eyes'.  I couldn't source a mixed media laser print so I used a magazine image instead.


I used t-shirt fabric to get the ruffles and then dry brushed with various greens and golds.  I started off with black powertex. Ashley gave us a great tip about using triangle shaped pieces.


Close up of the bottom half which is more green than gold.


Close up of the top piece which is more gold than green.


And then I was reminded of copyright issues using a magazine image, so now she is eye-less.

Sunday, 26 August 2018

More Paint Pouring


Yesterday I had another play with paint pouring, but decided to try on a smaller scale.


This time I tried the swipe technique with a damp kitchen towel.


And this is what I ended up with. I would have liked more cells and probably less white, but it was only my first try!


Then I tried one on watercolour paper. This one is still drying this morning! Still not many cells to speak of and the green has somewhat taken over too, but I have less white showing.


This morning, this one is dry and I'm quite pleased with how it came out.


Close up of the cells which came out pretty good, but they are quite small.


And this one wasn't quite dry, as you can see, top left, I stuck my thumb in it!! I cut out a face profile, drew round it and painted it black.


Close up of the cells, again not many of them for some reason.


I think I've left too much white paint over the colours, ie I didn't swipe enough off. 


And just an update on this one, I added an image.

All paints and pouring mediums are from the DecoArt range.


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