Saturday 16 June 2012

Fantasy - Craftymessers Challenge 11- Paint


Hello and welcome to my crafty blog. 


todays post is my DT project for the  Craftymessers Challenge Blog and the great theme of PAINT!.


 
Our theme this fortnite is
 
PAINT!!

And our sponsor is
 

http://www.desmetdesigns.co.uk/

We were given some gorjuss images from Desmet Designs and the very talented Marie is offering The Geisha and Beach Hut digis as the prize for one lucky winner !



I chose the Beach Hut as my project item this time as the cute image reminded me of sunny seaside resorts with brightly coloured beach-huts, ice-cream and sand in the sandwiches :)
 


I haven't painted in a very long time so this is my first 'paint' posting as all of my other efforts are paper and stamps related. Here I have mixed the paper with canvas and acrylic paint.  

I printed the huts in three different sizes to create the perspective. The individual huts were paint with watercolours to try to creative the bleached-out or weathered colours you see on huts like these. I prepared the canvas with a couple of layers of Gesso and a third layer was applied thickly to create the waves and beach effect.  I then painted in the sky, sand and water unsing a mixture of blue, white, green and yellow acrylic paint. The huts were adhered with dimensional foam pads to make them stand proud of the  canvas.

The result is a nice little painting that is bright and cheery, well I think so.

I got the bug for painting again, so while I had the paints out I've started on another project, which hopefully I can post here when completed. 


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Angela x

Materials used.
Digi Beach Hut image from Desmet Designs
All paints and the canvas I had in my stash.






3 comments:

  1. Its lovely, well done. xx

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  2. It's fab Angela and glad it gave you the bug for painting again x

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  3. This is great Angela, I really wish I could paint always in awe of those who can. Well done love it Great Big Huge Hugs Becca xx

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