Emmy’s First Birthday
Richard’s Grand-niece is one years old today. How to make diapers look like an interesting presetn? Voila!
Entries Tagged as 'Crafts & Art'
Vaseline As Resist - Challenge #17
I have found a technique that I totally love doing, and the outcome almost takes one’s breath away: Using Vaseline as resist.
Materials:
Vaseline (or lip gloss)
Watered-down acrylic
Modge Podge or similar product -either matte or gloss
Hairdryer
Q-tips
Baby wipe
Scott towel
On cardstock base, add whatever you wish to be the theme, and glue them down. Add vase color around the picture. Dry. (I use an old small hairdryer that blows at low speed to dry between steps.)
Then wash with decoupage, noting whether a texture swirly texture would be better than a straight layer of decoupage. I learned the hard way - do not overdo it or under-do it.
Once this is dry, use Vaseline to block parts that you do not want paint on. I used a Q-tip to spread the Vaseline.
Water down acrylic paint until really soppy. Carefully spread the watered-down color over the entire card. Dry. (If you have the hairdryer warm, the Vaseline melts and is difficult to clean off.)
Once you are sure the wash is dry, carefully wipe with a Scott towel. (At this point, you can block and add another coordinating wash in areas if you like, following the same steps.)
Once totally dry, use a baby wipe to wipe off the areas you have blocked with Vaseline. Use your fingernail, lightly, if you need to, but work and get off all the scruffy peeling paint away from the vaseline’d areas. The baby wipe will take the Vaseline off the work. (You may need to let it dry overnight, as I did, and check the cards again to make sure you have all the Vaseline off.)
I added things on, once I got the knack of this. I added bits of straw, paper clippings, even some Pomeranian hair, which I happen to have lots of…lol…)I am thrilled with the outcome of this challenge.
Harvest - Challenge #14
Ribbon, pressed flowers, stick-ons and mult-ilayered backgrounds make up this set of ATC’s on the Harvest Theme.
Getting Over Angst Of Landscapes
“The work of art is a scream of freedom. - Christo
Landscapes are difficult for me for I am a closet perfectionist. It is difficult for me to see the landscape from the precise leaves, buds, and branches. This exercise has been good for me because I did the planet-scape first and then moved to the mixed mediums I used to do the other ‘scapes’. You can see me lose my tightness and control of the pieces as I went. I think I like the Smokey Californian sky best as far as earth-scapes go. But my favorite piece of this set of experiments is the planet-scape. I really had to allow my creative soul to scream its freedom through intuitive washes so it could give me a hint.
“Planet-scape” is pen, “Goodnight Van Gogh” is gold and silver and black pen with watercolor wash, “Lava Meets Sea” is done with acrylic and water color wash, “Farmer-scape” is pen and watercolor wash, “California Sky” is my impression of smoke in their sky, “After The Fire” is watercolor and pen on oil canvas.
Africa - The Doll
My second doll: I call her “Africa”. I used the antique spindle from an old mill, as the base and body. I sculpted hands and arms. I used material for the face and washed features on the material. I wrapped the doll with a dress made of striped material. Then I made the lined cape of old shower curtain material with fleece material that coordinated. I bead the cape all the way around and then attached it to the doll. I added a bead and two baubles and a hand pounded necklace that I made of gold and silver craft wire. I made the turban of the same fleece as the lining of the cape then added embellishments to it.
I think the most difficult to do was the washing of the features. The next difficult was sculpting little hands. I am think to put something in her hands. I have not quite decided yet. An offering of some kind, a little hand woven basket, perhaps. I have some corn husk material I saved, or I have some sisal. It will come to me when it comes.
I am falling in love with doing this type of art.