Humming of the Wings- mixed media canvas

"Humming of the Wings"

The glorious return of spring has me greeting the birds and painting their beauty! Although I have not yet had any Hummers return, I created a canvas in their honor.

If you have time, I'll walk you through a few of my steps~join me ")

 Randomly spread white gesso on canvas-making sure to leave in various thickness.

 Color palette of choice!

 As above spread colors over dry gesso,using cards and scrapers

 While still wet, covered with plastic wrap and left till it was(well almost,so impatient)dry. teeheehee

 Technique Tip here~What I found was, the paint needed to be thicker, or at least more fluid to achieve really nice plastic wrap results-I think what I did was scraped it on too thin.

I'm still happy with my design results ")

Next phase was using my DecoArt Media Mister ~Primary Cyan on my glass block and watering it down.Then using a brush,applied it heavily to the top of the canvas and let it run a bit before knocking parts back with a baby wipe.

What a gorgeous color!!

 

 At the other end of the canvas, I did the same technique, this time with Media Fluid Acrylics ~Transparent YellowIronOxide&Quinachridone Burnt Orange and water.

Next was stenciling on the first Stencil1 layer of my Hummingbird. I used Mushroom paint for this and pounced lighter on the lower two birds,as I wanted a "ethereal" feeling .

My second layer of Stencil 1 Birds 3 pack-I used the detailed stencil and a mix of PhthaloTurquoise and Dioxazine Purple,heavier handed on the upper birds.

After that came some stamping along the bottom with a few additions to the flowers...

With my remaining paint, I used my fingers to spread the color on the edges of the canvas and called it done!

Products used as follows:
 DecoArt Paints-
Media Fluid Acrylics
Multi Surface Satin
Media Mister
Stamps:
Stampers Anonymous-Spring Sprung
KatzelKraft- Dandelion
Hero Arts-Elegant Weeds

 

Stencil 1 - Birds 3 Pack-2 Layers 

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Thanks so much for again joining me and I sure hope I have inspired you to create today!!

Jackie ")

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A Magical Adventure with Jessica Sporn's Stamps

  

A few posts back I shared a journal page with a Shiva,a new stamp,designed by my sweet artist friend,Jessica Sporn. Jessica kindly asked me to demo a few of her stamps from her new line and today I have another piece that I have created using two of her other stamps! 

Thanks so much Jessica for thinking of me- I love these stamps!!

 Available at RubberMoon are Peacock Motif and Ornate Leaf as well as Jessica's other line of stamps.

Most times, my posts are step by step with photos, but times like this...I just get on a roll with color and paint and texture,Oh My! and well-forgot the photos!! 

I do have a few to share-so here we go!

 To begin, I gessoed my page and when that was dry,

I spread on the outside edges a layer of

 DecoArt White Modeling Paste.

 At this point I took the Peacock Motif stamp and pressed the feather ends into the modeling paste.

~Hint #1~make sure you have a shallow dish of water to put your stamp in to remove excess paste as well as to soak in when finished. 

~Hint#2~ I use a finger nail brush at the sink to get out any remaining modeling paste from my stamps

 Next I pulled out a handful of my favorite DecoArt colors and just used the pads of my fingers to wipe on the paint.

After a few layered colors came stamping the Peacock Motif. I stamped with Delicata GoldenGlitz Ink,then,used the heat gun to dry this along.

 After taping off parts of the stamp,I continued stamping the feathers out away from the body. Also stamped in a few Ornate Leaf stamps in between the feathers.

Next came the embossing powders-I love this stuff-gives great textural elements to a page!

Around the top of the Peacock I used Stampendous Shabby White and filled in the Peacock's head with Sky Blue. I do believe I used some Lindy's Morning Glory Azure on the ornate Leaves as well.

After that-layers and layers of paint in all shades of blues,some purple-which was toned back down,as well as golds and DecoArt Turquoise Interference.

 As you can see,many colors later,all applied with  my fingers, a magical page,which turned into an adventure.

Thank you so much for stopping in and do check out Jessica's stamps~she has a wonderful assortment to choose from!

 I do love your visits as well as your comments!

Jackie ")




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Up-Cycled feeder for arriving birds!

Welcome April!

 Today I have  an upcycled bird feeder to share using Stencil 1 Birds 3-pack set as well as DecoArt Paints.

Stencil 1 is our April partner over at

 AlteredPages.com this month.

Stop in to see what the other gals have created ")

   On with the show!

  So this is where the bird feeder started- pretty sorry looking....

 My husband is pretty resourceful and after removing the chain,securing the top and removing the old base, he used some scrap pieces of lumber from his "stash" to put on a nice wide base with edging on it for the birds to perch upon!

Next are my steps...

1. Paint roof, outside of house and inside of base with Americana Decor Chalky Finish~Heritage Ancestral
2. Paint inside house,roof edges and outside of base with Americana Decor Chalky Finish~Heritage Ancestral
3. Apply 3D Gloss Gel Medium through Swallow Mask on roof top and through Owl Mask on the side of feeder.
4. Once the gel is dry paint the Swallow with Americana~Sea Breeze;let dry and stencil over with Americana Bluegrass Green.
5. Stencil through the Owl mask Americana Multi-Surface Satin~Mushroom;when dry stencil through with DecoArt Media Acrylic Raw Umber;highlight the moon with drybushing DecoArt Media Primary Yellow.

 

6. Mix 3d Gloss Gel and Americana  Bluegrass Green through stencil around edge of base.
7. Mix  DecoArt Media Texture Sand Paste~Neutral with Americana~Citron Green and stencil around outside flat part of  base.
8.When dry apply two-three coats of varnish.

 Not mentioned above, but I did stencil some flowers on the front of the roof using only the 3D Transparent Gloss Gel.

 Hope you enjoyed the walk through and once this feeder is hung and the birds start enjoying it,I'll post some photos with visitors!


Jackie ")




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