I signed up for a Friendly Plastic swap on CCSwaps. I decided to create a piece of wall art, so began with a 6 inch square stretched canvas. I drew some curvy lines in pencil, and painted dots of Xpandaprint between the lines (see left of pic below) then heated it with my heat gun to make it bubble up. I painted fine garnet gel around the Xpandaprint, and between the lines (see right of picture below).
Next, I painted the areas between the fine garnet gel and the canvas edges with coarse garnet gel.
I used a palette knife to add some gold mica flakes to the inner edges of the curvy lines.
When the garnet gels and mica flakes had dried, I filled the space between with clear granular gel (below).
I add some clear tar gel to the edges of some areas, then painted the fine garnet gel with Golden iridescent bronze fluid acrylic, and the coarse garnet gel with Golden fine iridescent gold. These colours will not show in the final piece, but they will add a sort of glow to the final colour.
Once the clear granular gel was dry, I added more dribbles of clear tar gel, and when that dried, I painted the whole piece with watered down Golden raw umber fluid acrylic paint. I then took some of the paint off with a damp paintbrush.
Once the canvas was dry, I added some aqua Treasure Gold to the clear tar gel and the central texture panel. It is a little brighter than the picture below shows, there is more contrast between the aqua and the background colour.
Finally, I dusted a Krafty Lady lizard mould with PearlEx, and made a lizards by melting gold coloured Friendly Plastic pieces into the mould. I pressed the melted plastic into the mould firmly with wet fingers (don't try it with dry fingers, it will stick to you and burn!) and kept wetting my fingers and pressing the plastic into the mould until I was happy that all the detail would be visible on the moulded piece. I dropped the mould and Friendly Plastic into the water, left it for a few moments, then unmoulded it under the water. I made a second lizard and toned the colour of the lizards down a little with aqua Treasure Gold.
Finally, I adhered the lizards to the canvas with gel medium. I hope Trish likes it!
Next, I painted the areas between the fine garnet gel and the canvas edges with coarse garnet gel.
I used a palette knife to add some gold mica flakes to the inner edges of the curvy lines.
When the garnet gels and mica flakes had dried, I filled the space between with clear granular gel (below).
I add some clear tar gel to the edges of some areas, then painted the fine garnet gel with Golden iridescent bronze fluid acrylic, and the coarse garnet gel with Golden fine iridescent gold. These colours will not show in the final piece, but they will add a sort of glow to the final colour.
Once the clear granular gel was dry, I added more dribbles of clear tar gel, and when that dried, I painted the whole piece with watered down Golden raw umber fluid acrylic paint. I then took some of the paint off with a damp paintbrush.
Once the canvas was dry, I added some aqua Treasure Gold to the clear tar gel and the central texture panel. It is a little brighter than the picture below shows, there is more contrast between the aqua and the background colour.
Finally, I dusted a Krafty Lady lizard mould with PearlEx, and made a lizards by melting gold coloured Friendly Plastic pieces into the mould. I pressed the melted plastic into the mould firmly with wet fingers (don't try it with dry fingers, it will stick to you and burn!) and kept wetting my fingers and pressing the plastic into the mould until I was happy that all the detail would be visible on the moulded piece. I dropped the mould and Friendly Plastic into the water, left it for a few moments, then unmoulded it under the water. I made a second lizard and toned the colour of the lizards down a little with aqua Treasure Gold.
Finally, I adhered the lizards to the canvas with gel medium. I hope Trish likes it!
Amazing piece!
ReplyDeleteIf trish doesn't like it I love it. You can send it to me. Need my address ? Lol beautiful job
ReplyDeleteCool piece. Thanks for sharing the process.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautifl
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your pictures and documentation,
/Barb
Fabulous piece of work Adrienne, just love the texture. You will have to make one for yourself now.
ReplyDeleteYou made a lovely thing for wall decor!! Thanks for the full detail about this!!
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