Hello and Happy Day everyone! I
am here today to share my monthly mixed media tutorial with all of you,
one of my very favorite duties every month, and today I am sharing how I
used my Pebeo
glass paints with a stencil on a 5x7 board canvas to create this
wonderful little piece that I can now pop into a frame (or not) and gift
to someone special.
The
steps are pretty simple, but the process takes a while as you need to
allow the glass paints to dry and they do NOT like it if you try to
quicken the process with a heat gun! (WARNING... heat and glass paints
create fumes!!) But if you give yourself the time to allow these paints
to dry the results are spectacular. So scroll down through all my
photos to see how I created this wonderful piece...
Begin by taping the stencil to the canvas and tracing the shapes in pencil
Next, using Pebeo Cerne
Relief, outline the shapes making sure there are no gaps in the lines,
because you are creating cells to fill with product and you do not want
any to leak out.
The Cerne
Relief dries surprisingly quickly and in about 20 minutes you are ready
to start filling those cells with color. I am using a variety of Pebeo glass paints, The Vitrail is translucent and gives a stained glass effect, the Ceramic is opaque and looks like baked enamel and he Prisme and Moon paints dry to form a beautiful pounded metal effect... swoon...
As
you can see I use a pretty simple method of dipping a wooden skewer
into the paint and letting it run off the skewer into the cell... that's
it, just be patient as the liquid is fairly thick and needs some time
to move... it reminds me of when I was a kid and used to watch the molasses drip off the spoon... it's very therapeutic.
If I drip Prisme or Moon paint into a cell already filled with some Vitrail paint (the clear one), the Prisme or Moon paints rise to the surface and create these lovely, pounded metal effects...
This
part of the process is one that cannot be rushed, and I just allowed
myself to become lost in the process of creating until all the cells
were filled... and now (I cannot stress this enough) LET IT DRY!
Overnight is probably the best and even then, if you are in a humid
climate, it may still be tacky.
Once the glass paints had dried I painted all around the heart shape with a matte black gesso.
Of course you can use black paint, but acrylic paints are glossy and I
loved the effect of a matte (not shiny) background against the shiny,
baked enamel-looking heart.
Next
I painted in the heart shape using my Golden fluid acrylic gold paint,
because I think Gold makes everything better, don't you?
It was at this point that I decided the background was too plain so using some Dreamweaver
bronze metallic embossing paste and the Square City stencil I broke up the black
background, and I did not worry too much about being perfect because I
wanted a slightly messy, grungy look.
At
this point was also when I decided that all the patterns in the cells
was just too busy for me, so I filled them all in using the Pebeo
Porcelaine paint pen in red and I liked the effect much more.
I
added the sentiment using the "It's All About You" stamp set, which I
stamped and heat embossed with a clear embossing powder so the glossy
letters would go with the glossy heart. And finally I filled all the
gold background with a layer of glitter so that heart sparkles from
across the room!
It
was really hard to get a good photo of all the shimmer and glitter and
shiny bits of this canvas, but these two are not bad...
And finally for those of you that need to know, here are all the products I used on this project.
As
always, thank you for popping by to see what I created to share with
you this month, and if you are inspired by my tutorial to use your
stencils, please do link up to the January Mixed Media Challenge where it is always anything goes except a card as long as you use a stencil, Any stencil.
Lynne Mizera
for the STAMPlorations Mixed Media Design Team
STAMPlorations Products Used:
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| IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU |
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| DOODLED HEART |
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| SQUARE CITY |
Terrific piece, Lynne, and a very creative use of your glass paints!!!
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