Saturday 18 March 2017

WALL ART

WALL ART


Hi All


This is my entry to the latest challenge at PaperArtsy,' Doors, Windows and Architecture'. As I don't have any stamps featuring the above (at least none I could find in my chaotic craft room!!) so the first challenge was thinking of whether I could think of anything to do for it that did not involve buying more stamps!! Not that I am in any was against buying new 'pretties' but I have promised myself no new stuff until I can get into my craft room...sadly true. This is a major problem as I hate tidying and loovvve new pretties!

Anyhoo, one of my favourite mixed media artists is Seth Apter and thanks to PaperArtsy I have been lucky enough to attend a couple of his workshops. I love his paint techniques and decided to try and adapt one for this challenge, I have a brick stencil...brainwave....bricks are architectural....I'll do a brick wall. What I was going to do with the wall I had no further clue but it was a start!!

I should say that this will be my second challenge entry as my first idea is still a work in progress and has a long way to go. Now to get messy!!

Ingredients

Tag
Gesso
Stencil
Fresco Paints
Black Archival Ink
Matt Medium
Assorted Images
Posca Paint Pens


I started with a clothing label which I gessoed as it had lettering on it which I did not want to show through, after all who wants to know I buy all my clothes from Gucci...OK, all who know me can stop laughing and get off the floor!!

Once dry I then added Grunge paste through the stencil. Love this paste as it dries pretty rapidly and one of my pet hates and frustrations is drying time.


I then put one coat of paint (concrete) on the tag.


I then put some Slate on a piece of scrap card and spread it around with my finger... because I didn't want to wash brushes... lazy or what?



I then slapped the piece of card onto the tag. When the paint on the card had dried a little (which is very quick with Frescos depending on the thickness of the paint layer) I pressed the card more firmly onto the tag producing the effect you see below.


I carried on doing this, alternating between colours till I achieve the effect I wanted, the colours being Concrete, Slate, Terracotta and Mud Splat.



As a final finish I dry brushed Little Black Dress over the whole tag, focusing on the brick areas.


I liked the slate blotches on the tag and this gave me the idea of doing a graffiti style. So I then found some graffiti images and image transferred them onto the tag using matt medium. I also used a Jofe stamp of a flower border to imitate graffiti style text.Not sure if this worked but I liked the effect.

I also added a collage element to give the effect of a torn, shabby poster/advert, painted on a heart and did some more scribbling with  my posca pens.


Tadah! Finished!!

Thanks for having a look and as usual all mistakes are proudly my own.

Happy messiness to you all.
Cheers xxxx

20 comments:

  1. Ahhhhh so
    Now we know!!! None of us was right !! Lol. Excellent technique!

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    1. Thanks very much, Helps to have such fab paints xxx

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  2. This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing how you did this.

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  3. Great technique, great idea, thanks for sharing! Xx

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  4. Thanks for sharing, such a brilliant effect, great piece of wall art! x

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  5. Watch out Banksy...here comes Essex's finest! That is so clever Tricia, and the end result is inspiring!

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    1. Thanks matie...he still hasn't come round to paint my house!! xxx

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  6. Love how you overcome the lack of architecture stamps Tricia, great idea and way you created the wall. Love the graffiti and transfer, very clever!

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    1. Thanks Sandie. Ongoing problem...too mamy stamps and not enough money!xxx

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  7. I love your brick wall Tricia. It's so effective and how resourceful to overcome the lack of specific stamps in this way. xx

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    1. Thank you, this was a bit of a leap into the unknown and I'm really pleased it worked. Now working on the next one. xxx

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  8. Wonderful your wall art on the tag, great images of the graffiti and poster by transfer technique, especially the wall technique. I love it! xx

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    1. Thank you very much, it was fun to do too xxx

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  9. Tricia,
    Slow down my beating heart I love this. I'm a big fan of using what you have, sometimes one just can't afford to spend money on supplies. Then there is the fact no matter how many supplies one has it is never the right one for a challenge. LOL

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