Tuesday, February 23, 2010

A journey through my creative process...

Birds of a Feather...


 
I started out with 3 canvas panels and covered 
them with a paper napkin (I separated the napkin 
from its plain white backing)  using Golden's 
semi-gloss gel medium.

  
Once the gel medium was dry I gave them 
a light coat of watered-down gesso.

  
At this point I really wasn't thrilled with it and so 
I inked the edges with turquoise blue chalk inks and 
also used the ink over punchinella/sequin waste 
as a stencil.

  
It still needed more depth so I stamped with white acrylic paint using several different stamps. Once the paint was dry I added a layer of Golden's transparent blue air brush paint mixed with transparent glaze. As the final layer I used more of the white paint with the punchinella/sequence waste to give it the honeycomb designs you see. Next I drew some birds and cut them out of scrap paper then  pieced them together, inked the edges and adhered them by running them through my Xyron and for the finishing layer I added Golden's semi-gloss gel medium.



Artistic Inspirations to
help you create!




8 comments:

  1. I LOVE them! I sure wish I'd see some happy birds like that around here. Maybe it would make me believe spring is really coming instead of more snow!

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  2. Absolutely adorable!! I see birdie greeting cards in your future :)
    Love the shoes!

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  3. Sweet tweets! Again, another great background and delightful birds. I agree with Kris that they'd make great greeting cards.

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  4. Wow!! These are some dressy birdies. Love them.

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  5. Wow, these are so cool, Aileen!!! I love their stripey legs & shoes & hats!!! You always make the most wonderful art!!!

    Thanks for sharing your process!!

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  6. TFS. I'd never heard of sequin waste. What a nice touch.

    A Xyron is on my wish list and my DH keeps asking, "But hon, what would you do with it?"

    I can't wait to show him this post!

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  7. TFS. I'd never heard of sequin waste. What a nice touch.

    A Xyron is on my wish list and my DH keeps asking, "But hon, what would you do with it?"

    I can't wait to show him this post!

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  8. Great idea! Love the background that the napkins create for the birds!

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