Sparkle

My art seems to have taken a back seat this week, as Ive spent a disproportionate amount of time rescuing my Birman cross Alexander, from trees, dogs, insects and the heat! Most of the projects involved lots of materials and he always seems to appear as the glue,glitter and paint come out. He seems especially fond of
licking irridescent ink!

My first piece involved creating a watercolour background using a wet on wet technique and then collaging a central flower using tissue paper. This was painted with metallic acrylic giving it a textural effect.

Dion Dior used stencil leaves and flowers for her backgrounds but I haven't got many, so I combined
them with stamps. I particularly likes the butterflys.
I added bubble wrap printed gesso areas for extra
interest and subtle accents of glitter glue.

I was pleased with the delicate colour scheme and composition which was shimmery but not gaudy.





Dion Dior continued to work over the above piece
adding several mixed media layers, acrylic 'frames', an all over stencilled pattern, transfer foil and tiny gems. I also added stamps of seed heads to give the composition a less blocky feel. The oranges, reds, golds and olives were chosen deliberately to move me away from my default 'bubble' or 'ocean' colours. I wasnt sure I liked this piece the whole time I was working at, finding it too abstract for my taste. Finally I grew to enjoy it as in the flesh it has alot of tones,texture and depth.

The next project was a spiders web and a return to a more delicate way of working with H2O's and Cosmic Shimmers. Again a wet on wet background, to create green foliage and impressionistic flowers. These were outlined with water colour pencils and highlighted with metallic acrylics. Salt sprinkled on the washed background had also added texture. The web spokes were bleached out using discharge paste but I didnt find this worked too well as it began to corrode the paper.
Finally the web was defined in glitter glue. I have a limited selection of this and would have liked to create finer lines.