Love - A mixed media project

Hi everyone, 

I want to share with you a mixed media project that I made for Art and soul studio Australia's blog

This is how I made it :

I applied Sand paste with a palette knife to a heart shaped canvas panel.

After it dried, I glued chipboard shapes, clay pieces and sea shells on to it. I used 3d gel medium for gluing them.

Next, I coated everything with heavy black gesso.

I colored the project with Art alchemy metallique paints and waxes. Added stickles and sequins as finishing touches.

That's all for now

Thank you for visiting, 

Take care,

        Saadia Nawaz

Products used:
Art alchemy metallique paint Plum preserve

Art Alchemy metallique paint Romance pink
Chipboard shapes from Art and soul studio Australia - out of stock at the moment
Chipboard trellis shape from Art and Soul studio Australia
Metal charms from Art and Soul studio
Prima Marketing heavy black gesso
Prima Marketing 3d gel medium matte
Prima Marketing's Art Extravagance sand paste
Art alchemy wax vintage gold, white gold.
Mega art stones
Mini art stones

Mood Board Inspiration by Tanyalee Kahler

Have you seen the mood board for this month? It is a beautiful one:

Today I am going to share with you an art journal spread I made using this mood board. And I will show you some process shots from along the way.

First of all, I started with my Moleskine Art Journal and gesso'd the pages because I wasn't really sure how much wet medium I was going to use. Then I placed down some ephemera pieces.

I glued these down with matte medium but you could easily use a glue stick or another wet glue you might have on hand.

Next I added some texture with a stencil. This one is from Dina Wakley and is called Swirling Dashes, and I used Finnabair's new Paper Paste for the texture.

Once the paste had dried (and it takes a little while because it is quite thick) I went crazy with the colours included in the mood board. I used a combination of acrylic paints that I will list in the supplies section below.

I have the most beautiful butterfly stamps so decided to stamp those onto tissue paper and glue them down. I could have stamped directly onto the page, but the textured background would have made that difficult. And the tissue paper almost disappears into the background so this technique works well.

And the final step was to include the quote "Music is silence coloured in" which I wrote using a black fineliner.

I hope you take some inspiration from this simple spread. I'd love to see your response to the challenge. Don't forget to upload them into the album in the Facebook group.

Until next time, happy art-making xx

SUPPLIES:

• Moleskine Art Plus Sketchbook
• Liquitex Gesso
• Collage ephemera (book pages, magazine clippings, and pieces of chopped up art)
• Liquitex Matte Medium
• Paper Paste
• Dina Wakley Stencil (Swirling Dashes)
• Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylic - Parchment
• Atelier Interactive Acrylic - Paynes Grey
• Art Alchemy Metallique - Golden Moss
• Art Alchemy Metallique - Emerald Green
• Art Extravagance Rust Effect Paste (Yellow Rust)
• Liquitex Acrylic Ink (White and Gold)
• Finnabair Cling Stamps - Don't Forget to Fly
• Tissue Paper
• Black Fine Liner