It's Free to Create Friday!

Well, today was a relatively quiet day for me.  Danny works on Fridays, I have my 4-H Photography workshop for tomorrow pulled together somewhat--no errands to run, so I decided to "play".      I finished up these blocks the other day, actually.  A little Valentine deco for my Living room shelves.  THe paper is one of our new Valentine papers at the store.  All 4 letters on one sheet.  So with 4--- 6 x 6 blocks, some paint, some stamping, some bling--pretty easy, but I like them a lot!

Today, I painted a multimedia picture I had been thinking about for some time--well, since Christmas, when I took a countdown calendar out of my lime green frame.  I thought I wanted to do a "she' painting, but when I recently got some new phyllis Harris stamps from the Unity Stamp Co., I fell in love with the little girls, their hair blowing in the wind.   I ended up stamping her on a piece of paper, then enlarging her 350% and printing her on vellum.  I fussy cut her out,  and colored her with my copic markers. 

I then started on my canvas (it is a stretched canvas--16 x 20", prepped with gesso and ready to go).   I painted the background, blues and greens, sky and grass and then started adding.  I stamped, painted, sprayed with mists, added words.

I used acrylic paints and inks for the stamping,  some bubble wrap accents here and there--even incorporated some netting in the upper sky, saturated in glue and seal (and not quite dry in this pic)

It added a lot of dimention and allowed the "sky" details to show through.

This pic shows some of the "bubbles" from the bubble wrap use.  Even put a couple strips of some new "washi" tape I got with birds on it.   That's the fun of multimedia--anything goes--the more the merrier!

 

I added a light source--the sun--it also brought some bright "orange" to the picture, one of my favorite colors.

But, of course, my favorite part of the whole picture was the precious little girl (who I think looks like my little Grand daughter, Callie Jane!).  I added her with modge podge (no easy task on vellum).  It caused the vellum to bubble in places, giving it a really neat , slightly 3-D effect, that made her pop on the page.  and the vellum seemed to make her almost see through and"air" like.  I loved the effect it gives to the picture.                                                                             So this has been my day, so far---The girls are none too excited about being so ignored all day, so I guess a little play time is in store!         Have a great weekend everyone!