I'm working on some birthday presents. I had made an extra canvas with molding paste and colored with browns & creams when I did
Tracey's mini memory. I sprayed over the canvas with
Bronze/Brass Color mist, and lightly sprinkled on some regular and copper Perfect Pearls. Used the Bronze/Brass Color mist to spray a large veined leaf I had cut in half, also used to color the edges of a vintage image and to change the pink sleeve to bronze.
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Decided to deepen the color of the canvas by making a wash of copper Perfect
Pearls and water and then brushed this wash over the canvas. Used the extra wash to color another mini canvas for a future project.
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Used metal russet Lumiere paint to color the edges and parts of a
brocade polymer clay butterfly I made last spring, most of the cut skeleton leaf and some letter beads.
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Sewed the beads onto the brocade butterfly to look like the body and spell out "DREAM". Adhered the wings, a flourish and the image to the canvas with medium gel mat. Difficult to see in this photo, but I colored the hair in the image with a mixture of medium gel mat and copper Perfect Pearls. The flourish was colored with copper Perfect Pearls and a Copper leafing pen.
3 comments:
This is so beautiful! I too have been using skeleton leaves as wings - they are so delicate and really set the piece off - love the colours on this one...
Carol, both your mini canvases are gorgeous. Never thought of using the skeleton leaves as wings, so thanks for that idea. I am sure both the birthday gals will love these.
Just love this one, fab colours and composition
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