Revisiting old techniques - watery layers with stencilled textures

Here's another of my techniques and layer combinations using acrylic paints. I like to turn to these when needing some inspiration and I have been documenting them on media boards as a resource.

You will find them added to my Tutorials and step x steps page found on my sidebar.

This one - Watery Layers with Stenciled Texturen- I taught at Ministry of Mixology in April 2019.

Process steps
1. Apply black modeling paste through a stencil. Leave to dry.
2. When the paste is dry paint a coat of white gesso over the whole piece.
3. Paint watery acrylic washes over the whole surface and dab with some kitchen paper to remove some of it from the gesso. Dry.

4. Mix a little prussian blue hue 50:50 with glazing medium and paint over the tag and gently rub back with dry kitchen roll and a babywipe keeping the dark blue to the edges.

5. Mix a little quinacridone gold with water, dribble on one place spritz with water and move around and dab some off with dry kitchen paper before drying. Repeat in another couple of random places.

6. Mix a little paynes grey with water and dribble around the edges, spritz with water and dry. I worked on about a 2 inch spread at a time.

7. Using a small brayer, roll carbon black paint over the raised areas, if some catches in the background don’t worry it adds to the distressed look.



Or a little different -

 

Step 1- Apply some gesso to the  board, squidge it on the craft mat/palette. Dry
Step 2 - Use white modeling paste with white with acrylic paint added to it and apply through a stencil - leave to dry.
Step 3 - Add some dip, drip and dry washes.
Step 4 - Lightly sand raised textures to get some of the colour back.
Step 5 - Add some splatters.
Step 6 - Using a palette knife drag clear crackle glaze around the edges and leave to dry.
Step 7 - Cover crackles with titanium white antiquing cream, leave to dry and wipe back.
Step 8 - Sand the edges and add some quinacridone gold and prussian blue around the edge to frame it.

xxx

Tim Holtz 3-D Texture Fades card (2)

I have another project using the 3-D texture fades over on the Country View Crafts Project Blog and I'd love it if you could pop over to see how this one came together.

I hope you have had a great weekend. xx

A trio of tags

Yes three tags today made all together when I was trying to get different styles all using Andy Skinner stamps and DecoArt media products. Three completely different colour ways and designs - one rusty/timeworn, one vintage and one pink and shabby.

As my blog is a place for me to keep a record not only of the projects I make but also the steps I take to create them this is now a long post - so be warned you either need a cuppa in your hand or just take a quick scroll through all the photos.

Vintage Tag

I didn't have vintage in my head when I started out on this one but I really like the look 0f it in the end.

Seal the tag with gesso.

Make two watery washes, raw umber and prussian blue, dip and splatter with water twice.

Add remnant rubs.

Stamp arch with coffee and black archival ink.

Use stormy sky DI through a stencil blast with a heat gun.

Replace stencil and stamp text with black archival through it.

Collect collage pieces and adhere to the tag, Give a light coat of white gesso or titanium white.

Add some raw umber and quinacridone gold around some of the edges of the collage pieces.

Distress the edges and ink with vintage photo DI.

Pink shabby tag.

Seal the tag with gesso.

Make three watery washes, quinacridone magenta, quinacridone red and raw umber, dip, drip and dry twice.

Stamp text and postmark with embossing ink and use bright white embossing powder.

Stap images over the top with black versafine.

Splatter with titanium white mixed with some water and carefully dry without overheating the embossing powder.

Sand the edges and blend with vintage photo DI, then spritz with water and dry.

Add a small collection of shabby elements and a dies ribbon bow to finish the look.

Pink and Andy Skinner products? You don't see that very often lol.

Rusty Tag

I've used some of the old Tim Holtz vintage photo distress embossing powder to create part of the rusty feel as well as a rusty painted embellishment and punched hearts ona rusty effect masterboard I had created with the decoart media paints.

Seal the tag with gesso.

Make three watery washes, viridian, burnt umber and titan buff, dip, drip and dry twice.

Dip and dry with titanium white wash twice.

Using an Andy stencil apply embossing ink and the distress embossing powder.

Stamp the arch image. text and some smaller number prints using coffee and black archival ink.

Add some embellishments that all look rusted in some way these were all taken from my rusty leftovers box.

And there we have it - a trio of three. Which is your favourite and which style do you like to work in?

Thanks for joining me along my new 2018 journey with Andy. I'm off to Stitches today to meet up with him and quite a few of the team and will take these and a few other bits I have been making as samples when I am demonstrating on the stand. I'm sure there will be a few photos posted on Facebook and hopefully I will be able to add some here when I get back.

hugs Brenda xxx

Grungy Journal covers - Andy style - DecoArt Media Team

Welcome everyone - I was over on the DecoArt Media Design Team blog last year with this very grungy Andy Skinner style HeArtfelt journal. All the details can be seen over there and you can be transported if you click HERE.

To keep all my work in one place I have now added all the details below.

I made two cover panels using Andy's mega crackle technique (link to Andy's tutorial here) using DecoArt media fluid paints and mediums. Just look at the MEGA crackles that appeared.

On to the focal embellishing of the cover. I took a piece of card big enough to take the skull and dipped it in watery washes of sap green, titan buff and burnt umber drying between each layer.

I stamped the skull and just had enough room for the specimen plate as well.

Take a piece of greyboard cut to size to fit the journal panels and draw where the cut out skull and specimen plate will go. With a palette knife add some texture sand paste around the edges. Let it dry although it can be helped along with a heat gun.

Then paint over the whole piece with black gesso.

Now take a stiff bristled brush and dry brush with white gesso - you can see here where the stamped pieces will go ....

.... and the same with yellow iron oxide but keeping it to one edge all the way round.

Repeat with sap green and phthalo blue ....

.... and lastly some quinacridone gold.

Now for some random watery washes, the first is sap green mixed with transparent yellow iron oxide ....

...the second is burnt umber mixed with straight yellow oxide.

Next I turned my attention to the stamped pieces and added some watery quinacridone edges and painted a little inside the skull to help them blend in with the plaque. 

When they were dry I glued them to the plaque and gave it all a coat of ultra matte varnish.

Back to the mega crackle panels, I dabbled watery washes of the same three colours used on the stamped pieces and spritzed the areas with water before drying each colour separately.

I then made a dirty glaze to seal the surfaces using one of Andy's recipes - find it about 3/4 of the way through this video HERE.

At the same time I edged a quote chip with quinacridone gold and sealed it with the glaze.

I had a rust making session creating four nuts and bolts and  some rusty card to die-cut some decorative elements. I chose this one and gently rubbed over some lavish green metallic lustre.

Going back to the journal covers I overlapped and struck the spines together with redline tape and gave them a coat of white gesso. When it was dry I stamped the crackles using black archival ink and then repeated the steps of dabbled washes and dirty glaze (see above).

Sand the edges of the panels and ink them with ground espresso distress ink and adhere them to the covers and assemble the elements on the front cover of the journal.

Cut papers to create inside panels and also cut and score a thin one to cover the inside of the spine. Add elastic to hold page inserts.

Make up little 'booklets' of papers and pockets to tuck under the elastic.

Some of you will have seen that I am now a proud member of the Andy Skinner Creative Team and I'm looking forward to making samples with lots of his new products that will be coming out over the next few weeks. Stay Tuned.

hugs Brenda xxx

Products Used:

Media Fluid Acrylics Burnt Umber

Media Fluid Acrylics Sap Green

Media Fluid Acrylics Titan Buff

Media Fluid Acrylics Paynes Grey

Media Fluid Acrylics Quinacridone Gold

Media Fluid Acrylics Phthalo Blue

Media Fluid Acrylics Yellow Oxide

Media Fluid Acrylics Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide

Media Crackle Paint

Media Texture Sand Paste

Media Black Gesso

Media White Gesso

Media Ultra matte Varnish

Metallic Paint – Metallic Lustre Lavish Green

Americana – Weathered Wood

Supplies Used:

Assorted Brushes

300 gms White Cardstock

Strong double sided tape

A piece of greyboard

Andy Skinner Stampendous Skulldogery Stamp Set

Andy Skinner Andy Skinner Industrial Elements Bolts/Washers sheet

Items for embellishments

Journal and papers

A Quote Chip

Crackle stamp

Black archival ink

Tando Creative - Modeling Paste

It's texture paste week over on the Tando inspiration blog and I had fun creating a very grungy project.

To start I took one of the long Tando chipboard tags, gave it a coat of gesso and then a light coat of transparent iron oxide keeping it light and barely covering the whole of the tag.

To get some texture on the tag I took DecoArt modeling paste and mixed it with a little burnt umber media fluid acrylic and with a palette knife applied it through the long flourish stencil, turning it over to apply it at the bottom.

Next I took two different sizes of the grab bag circles and cut a little from each of them and gave them a coat of burnt umber. Before the tag dried I took the circles applied wet glue to the backs and and stuck them into the modeling paste....

.... then I added some texture sand paste around the edges of the circles and the tag itself then left it to fully dry.

Once dried I rubbed a candle over the texture paste parts and then stippled with dark grey, cobalt turquoise and cobalt blue and rubbed the colours off of the textured areas.

I repeated again this time adding in some transparent yellow iron oxide.

Next I focussed on the sand texture areas and the edges and stippled in burnt umber, burnt sienna and paynes grey followed by rust in a bottle - a coat of quinacridone gold spritzed with water and left to settle before drying.

I dribbled some watery TYIO through, dried it and repeated with cobalt turquoise to bring the patina colours back into play a little bit.

The seam binding ribbon took the paint washes beautifully.

The crown is a diecut and I glued two together to give it some dimension.

And finally I found a lost relative and painted a star to finish it off.

Thanks for stopping by today, my project can also be seen on the Tando blog. 

Products

Long Tags

Grab bag circles

Flourish Stencil

DecoArt 

Media Fluid Acrylics

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