Materials/Instructions:
Gather everything you can get your hands on! RAID your
sewing box, button jar, garden shed, toy box, packaging, lace, old material,
twine, Lisa Kettell doll parts!! Tim Holtz metal pieces,...
Canvas, gesso, acrylic paint, string glue, I used Ranger's
Glossy Accents, spray bottle with water, perfect pearls, mini misters, distress
re- inkers (there are a lot of pearlescent mists out there but I still love to
make my own), cheap paintbrush with long soft bristles ( to get into the most
impossible places), gilding wax, Tim Holtz distress paint, I used the metallic
ones, Distress glitter or glitter of your choice
Start by painting the canvas with gesso, let dry or if you
are like me grab your heat gun!
Using gesso, collage papers, lace, material, ... down to make
your background, just for a bit of textured interest.
Leave to dry or... Yes! Grab your heat gun! Just be careful
not to bubble up the gesso unless you like that look, which I actually do.
Start adhering all your precious finds, make a design that
pleases you but don't overthink it! Go with your feeling! Remember to
incorporate you Lisa Kettell Design doll parts, they give it that special
touch!
Leave to dry! This time keep your hands off that heat gun! I
leave it for a few hours or overnight because that way I can't get impatient!
Okay, if you are anything like me, get up at 5:00am to
continue! Seriously I did!
Now cover everything with gesso, get into all the little
nooks and crannies to get every little piece of surface covered. Now you can
reach for your trusty heat gun or leave to dry.
Assure it is really dry, unless you want gesso in your paint
( yes, I got gesso mixed in my black paint, but it actually looked good because
it gave it depth)
Paint the whole canvas with acrylic paint of your choice and
color, I used Adirondack paint dabber black, but by all means experiment with
you favorite color.
You really need to be patient, get into every single spot,
turn the canvas around to see it from a different angle, tilt it now and again
to find all the white spots that you missed!
Heat gun! Or leave to dry.
Now come the metallic distress paints! Shake well, the
mixing ball is in there for a reason! Unscrew the top( dabber and all) there should
be paint in the part you screwed off, this is all you need, shake the top to
splatter paint onto your canvas, use one or more colours.
Spray with water to let the paints react, move and tilt your
canvas for drip page effect. Dry with heat gun. If you see pools of colour you
don't like then just dab with paper towel.
Pearlescent spray: put one dropper of Distress Ink re-inker
into a mini mister, add perfect pearls, as much or as little as you like, I
just use the tip of my scissors as a scoop and I usually add 2 scoops. Fill
with water, not all the way up, leave a little space, it will help with the
mixing.
Shake it shake it shake it ( like a Polaroid picture!)
Mist onto your canvas as you please and again move and tilt
for drippage effect.
You probably will
grab for your heat gun right now... Your good!
Who has time to let things dry??
Rub some ( dry) perfect pearls onto the raised areas, I used
a few different colours, be sparse, you really need a little! I use my finger
tips and just use what is in the lid.
Buff up with a cloth or piece of kitchen paper. You can also
ad some gilding wax here and there.
Add a small word that pleases you, cover with Glossy
Accents.
I glittered part of the moon. Glittered the pearl I put in
one of the shells
I added a metal phrase at the bottom.
Et voila!
Love & Peace
Tanya Watts
Wattstanya@ icloud.com
tanyawatts.blogspot.com
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