My sister-in-law has an earth-tone country scheme to her home so the canvas I made for her (below) was done by sponging 5 different metallic paints over a matte paint base coat:
The lighting wasn't right for taking the picture and, I didn't take a progression of pictures due to poor winter lighting conditions (working on it in the evenings). I used Folk Art Artists' Pigments: a base coat of 43 Burnt Sienna. When the base coat was dry, I used several small sea sponges (soaked first in water and squeezed out) to haphazardly sponge various FolkArt Metallics all over the canvas, including the sides: 577 Sahara Gold; 662 Silver Sterling; 663 Solid Bronze; 666 Antique Copper and a touch of 2484 Champagne. If I wasn't crazy about the colour in a spot I grabbed a different sponge and tapped some more of a different colour. I think the layering of the different coloured paints gives it more depth. Because of the metallic pigments and light refracting off it, its hard to get a good photograph.
The wagon wheels are Dusty Attic chipboard stained with 3 different Tim Holtz's distress inks. The mini birds are also Dusty Attic chipboard. I used grey ink, a touch of white ink and a touch of yellow on these after the base coat of white gesso had dried. I like to paint the chipboard with gesso first. If you don't the cardboard absorbs the ink and you get a "watered down" colour. If this is the result you are looking for then you don't need to paint it first with gesso. The metal stickers are from Momenta.
I sure hope my sister-in-law likes it. Because I had to "mute" the colours down from my previous two bright canvases, I had more difficulty doing this one. LOL!
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I posted this in a very big hurry initially just before I had to run out the door; so I have edited this post and elaborated on the painting process. If you like mucking with ink and paints as much as I do, you'll enjoy doing this canvas!
Thank you for comments.
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