Sunday 4 February 2018

King Spook Hanging

In typical Andy Skinner style these new stamps are fabulous to work with and I used them to create a little hanging to share on Andy's blog today.


I've used the little fella in the bottom left and called him King Spook.
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Roughly seal the substrate (I used one of my Tando media boards) with gesso, leave some of the outer edges exposed.
 Using the dip and dry technique and watery washes start with raw umber - dry. Add a little cobalt blue to it, dip and dry. Add a little more cobalt blue and some titan buff, dip and dry. Add some titanium white to the mix and repeat.


Stamp text using Spooks and Tech Trauma with watering can, give it a blast of the heatgun and then take a little white gesso with a palette knife - flatten it on your paper/foil palette and the keeping the knife flat to the surface of the board drag small amounts over the background so you get a distressed look.


Stamp the skulls onto tissue paper - I wanted a good clean image over the  rough background. Adhere to the background and give the whole board a covering with matte medium.
Mix a very watery wash of quin gold, paynes grey and quin red and apply to the surface spritzing with water if necessary to keep in light in colour tone - just like watercolours.


I chose those colours so it would tone in with the frame as well.


Cut the TH cameo frame with an oval cut out centre from thin greyboard, run it through an embossing folder and seal with a coat of gesso.


Put a little drops of decoart media acrylics silver, quinacridone red, quinacridone gold and titan buff on a flat palette and take them randomly on a brush and mix and blend them on the frame.


Paint over watery washes of raw umber and paynes grey allowing them to seep into the crevices and dry - repeat several times.


When dry sand the high spots on the surface back to the silvery colour and some raw greyboard and then blend a dark brow distress ink over the whole background and with a babywipe wipe it off again leaving the greyboard areas taking the ink and making the frame look much older,
Don't forget to sand the edges inside and out and blend with vintage photo DI.


Take a piece of media card and dip in watery cobalt blue, dry, and then mix a watery rose colour from the quin gold, quin red and titan buff and dip again.
Using the a stencil apply titanium white through it and stamp some text and numbers from the brand new 'Spook' set of stamps by Andy for Illusionary Artists.
Follow up with a wash of quin gold and paynes grey and dips of those colours with titanium white to get an etheral layered effect.
I stamped the image using aterng can archival ink but because of the stencilling and layers it didn't come out as sharply as i thought it would.


But I knew I was going to paint it in and with some paynes grey and a very fine brush I was able to add the detail in.


Stick King Spook to the back of the cameo frame and adhere it to a second one to give it some substance and dimension .... 


.... and assemble the hanging.


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hugs Brenda xx