I began, by tearing up papers and collaging them onto the canvas using gel medium. Once it was covered and dry, I then went over the paper edges with white gesso to smooth out the texture a bit. I then began adding yellow, gold and emerald paints, using a combination of my fingers and stiff brushes. I then stamped the flower stamp several times on yellow tissue paper using Versafine ink. . I cut down the images and again used gel medium to collage them onto to the canvas. I actually used opposite sides of the tissue to get mirror images and extend the stamp length.
Once that was all dried, I added more color using my finders again and stencils. I also used a brayer painting a side of it to add a little more white (white gesso) to lighten up the center area. I used a couple more background stamps as well with red and green Stazon inks. I actually tried to build up the background layers and added another stencil with an antique gold Nuvo crackle paste. I then pulled out some spray inks, and spattered red and green drops all over. I also tried to add green drips from the top and bottom.
I embossed the flower and leaves again on watercolor paper and added Spectrum Noir glitter inks. I fussy cut those out. I glued those on to the canvas. I then stamped three sentiments from the kit in different ink colors onto the remaining tissue paper, fussy cut them out, and again, adhered those with gel medium. I add
Once everything was dried, I used white gel pen on the bottom sentiment and outlined everything with a charcoal pencil, smudging the lines with my fingers. I also went around the canvas edges with my pastel chalks in black, red and green.
I didn’t really distress this too much, as I really wanted bright colors to add some positivity and lightness to the message. Let me know what you think. I don’t really do these often enough to be proficient, but the process, besides being very messy, certainly seems to focus my attention away from current events.
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