Hello Everyone!
This weeks blog is a bit dark but fitting for the one year mark of the war on Ukraine.
Not to be too grim, but I felt the sentiment is fitting.
I chose my colors of distress spray stain and sprayed, keeping in mind to leave a lighter area at the horizon. After spraying my tag, I spritzed with water and a bit more color and let them blend together. I tipped the tag various ways for the ink to run together a bit here and there. When I pleased with the result, I dried it with my heat tool.
Next I inked the broken fence stamp with a grey ink and stamped it. Then I turned it around to stamp it facing the first one.
So It looks like a hole in the fence. Next I stamped the bird. I used a white gel pen to highlight his bones as they got a bit lost in all the color. I wanted a sort of rotting corpse so I painted some red and added some texture paste to help that look. Next I stamped and fussy cut the gas mask guy and added paint his jacket and gray under his eyes.
I used foam tape behind him to give him dimension. Then placed him on the tag.
The next step I did was to Stamp the tree on each side. I used gray ink to paint some smoke coming off the branches, billowing up. Next I took the banksy stop wars stormtrooper stamp and inked just the words and stamped at the top.
I went in with a paint brush and some black ink to fill in the missing parts of letters a bit. Then went in with my white gel pen to make the o and p show a bit more.
And then I called it done. I hope you like what I've done this week, until next time....Stay artful!
Stamps used:
Jagged chain link fence 19140
Raven specimen 20058
Man in gas mask 19135
Banksy storm trooper stop wars 19974
Weathered tree 19467
Other supplies:
Distress spray stains: Mustard seed, Twisted citron, Forest moss, Lumber jack plaid
White gel pen
versa claire ink pads: Nocturne, morning mist
Texture paste