Saturday, June 14, 2014

Even more texture!

I'm playing with texture again with the stuff I started last week.  First, I took this glass beads texture gel and the plastic doily I showed you last week and made a fun mess.



By fun mess I mean I took a spackle spatula and spread the glass beads texture gel over the top of the doily as you see it in the picture above so that the impression of the doily was left on the canvas.  Here is how it looked wet:




And here it is dry:


The doily impression is harder to see than I thought until I put paint on it (I'll show that in a minute).  I wanted more texture, so I took the same doily and did the same process as I did with the glass beads texture gel with fiber paste instead (upper left in the overhead picture below).  I also Mod Podged some paper doilies on the canvas, too:




Close-up of fiber paste doily impression:


Close-up of paper doily Mod Podged on:


I am not sure how the fiber paste will turn out, but that's okay.  That's half the fun!  I suspect, as the paste left quite a few peaks through the doily, that I will have to sand it a bit once it is dry.  I'm not sure I want the peaks to be quite as high as they are right now.  I'll know more when it is all dry.

As I said above, I added some paint to the glass beads texture gel doily impression (wow...that's a mouthful!) and it became much easier to see the impression:


Supposedly the glass beads are supposed to give the paint a certain sparkly quality to it, but I am not seeing it.  That's okay, though...I like how the texture of it and that, for this piece, is what counts to me.  I'm not sure I like the paint color, but it is a start.  I can always Mod Podge over the paint and paint again with another color.  

I also took the glass beads stuff and piled it into a leaf cookie cutter onto a tiny canvas.


Here it is dry:


I then am going to add layers of paint over the top...here is my first layer:


I'll Mod Podge between each layer of paint to stop them from bleeding into each other and creating a brown mess.

And finally (yep, I HAVE been busy!), I am playing around with adding layers of newspaper to canvas in a unique way...you can't really see it now, but it will be unique by the time I am done. Here's the first layer:


I know you can't see it, but there is a canvas under there.  I used the New York Times for this layer and will for other layers, too.  I'm also using The Wall Street Journal.  I like the fonts they use better than my local newspaper.

Well, that's it for today.  More will follow later!  Until next time, be you and no one else.  You are perfect just the way you are!

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