Tuesday 28 November 2017

Fragile Winter Mixed Media Canvas

Last year I made a canvas for the Craft Stamper that I called 'Fragile Winter' and it was in the December issue. I am at last sharing it here and over on the Country View projects blog with the process steps I took to make the canvas background here and the snowflakes steps on CVC.





Step-by-step…

1.    Seal the canvas top and sides with a coat of gesso and dry, wipe over with a wash of magenta, then daub modelling paste in areas that you want to stamp the snowflakes.


2.    Heat dry the paste until a skin has formed, spritz the stamp with water and press it into the paste removing it straight away. 


3.    Paint layers of crackle paste all over the rest of the background and some on the sides and leave the whole canvas to dry naturally.


4.    Lay a darkish watery grey wash over the crackled areas dab off any excess with kitchen roll. 


5.    Layer light pink and grey layers of watery paints, let them drip and move around, drying between each layer. Then stamp snowflakes with watering can archival ink. 



6.    Brayer on white and cream paints, dry with a heat gun and then dribble and spritz white watery paint through the whole background. 




7.    Go back into a couple of the areas of the textured snowflakes with a very watery wash of magenta to create contrast and depth. 



8.    Finger paint thin white paint around the pink areas and lightly spritz the white shimmer mister to bring coherence to the overall design. 



9.    Dab watery colours into recesses if they need it and splatter a watery wash of titan buff and one of magenta dabbing off with a paper towel to further help unify the whole piece. 



To finish the project

·         Seal the background with a coat of Ultra Matte Varnish.


·         Add snowflakes using the same colours but deeper tones so that they stand out. Process steps to make these can be found at Country View Crafts project blog.

If you subscribe to Craft Stamper you may remember seeing it but it's that magical time of the year as Christmas approaches and as I was asked to teach the steps at 'Let's Be Creative' last week, I hope to be back soon to show you the new design I made to take with me.

Enjoy the lead up to December, it's only 26 days to Christmas.

hugs Brenda xxx