Workshop

Hi I have some exciting news :-),  I will be teaching a class at ArtChicks Studio ( Barneveld, the Netherlands.

We are going to make an altered canvas (see pics below) using Deco Art products and a digital stamp by Rick St.dennis.

You can find all info here, hope to see you there :-)

The Buddha experiment

DECO ART Products used : Americana Acrylic Gesso, Americana Acrylic paint in colours: Lamp Black, Lilac, Indian Turquoise, Sea breeze. Crackle Texture, Metalic Lustres in Fab Fuchsia and Brillliant Turquoise.


I had seen these plastic Buddha wanddecorations in the store a few times, and I

kept thingking ther must be a way to make them look better. So I bought 3 different Buddha's and started to play with my Deco Art goodies.

This is the kind of Buddha deco I started with

It's thin shiny plastic that was supposed to look like metal, but screamed metal all over,

I took a canvas, gessoed it and glued the plastic Buddha on. the Buddha was smaller than the canvas and to hide the edges I added Texture  Crackle  over the plastic edges and the the rest of the canvas. It was a thick layer of Crackle Texture, so let it dry overnight.

When dry I applied a layer of gesso the plastic Buddha. Let Dry again. Next layer was Lamp Black, painted the whole canvas black and made sure the black went into the cracks.

Then I started to add the other Americana Colors with a paint brush and a sponge to give it a bit of an aged look.

The Buddha was painted Indian Turquoise.  When paint was dry I added the Metallic Lustre to the Buddha, started with Brillliant Turquoise, next was the Fab Fuchsia, onlu put on the raised parts.

Also added some on the crackle paste, just a bit to give it some shine.

The quote wass tamped on painted cardboard and glued to the canvas.

I like how it turned out.

Rotten Love Challenge #181 at Haunted Design House

Today the new challenge starts at Haunted Design House, theme is Rotten Love and we are being sponsored by Delicious Doodles,check the Haunted Design House blog for all details and inspiration from my fellow minions, would be nice if you left them  some love on their bloggies, life is hard in the Dungeon, so they can used some nice comments :-)

I made a canvas, Valentine themed ofcourse, using a Delicious Doodles image called Angel of Death

 Products used

DecoArt:

Acrylic Gesso, Texture Crackle Deep Tuscan Red, One Step Crackle Medium, 

Glamour Dust glitter paint in black ice and Sizzling red.

Dazzling metallics Shimmering Silver, Metallic Lustre Iced Espresso.

Tim Holtz Dies: Ornate Crosses,Winged Heart, Graveyard edge.

A Cuttle bug embossing folder Textile Texture, and the Fence Die.

 A closer look at Angel of Death (coloured with Derwent color soft pencils) the stamps in the background are Tim Holtz Valentine stamps, the blood splatter is a Stampinback stamp.

 I used the back of a canvas and covered the edges using Texture Crackle, the cracks appear when it dries. Added some Metallic Lustre to the crackle and the fence die and the cross

 Painted the roses red  using the glamour dust glitter paint

Painted the wings and the crown using dazzling metallic paint, the heart using glamour dust glitter paint. when Dry I stamped the batwings to the wing die and added the senti to the heart. Covered the Heart, wings and crown with one step crackl emedium. Let dry and cracks apear

rubbed some distress ink in the cracks to make them more visable

final touch some bling on the crown, that;s it

Can't wait to see your entries in the challenge



I will enter this in the following challenges
http://cardmaniachallenges.blogspot.nl/2014/01/cmc39-angels-andor-fairies.html

http://www.throughthepurplehazechallenges.blogspot.nl/

Pierrots canvas

I have been working on this canvas, I really like how it turned out, here some pics

I really love this Pierrots image,not a fan of clowns normally , but these are so much fun to colour. There are a lot more Pierrot image in Rick St. Dennis Zibbet shop.

The canvas is made in a simular way as the canvas in the Tuts and Comment tutorial here. Only different colours paint and Metallic Lustres used.

DecoArt products used:

Gesso

Dazzling metallics paint color shimmering silver

Americana Weathered Wood crackle medium

Americana acrylic paint colour lamp black, lavender, bahama blue

Metallic Lustres : Iced Espresso and champagne ice

Texture Crackle  neutral

some closer looks at the crackle