Friday 1 April 2016

PaperArtsy 2016 Topic 6: Liquid Sculpting Medium

For this fortnight's PaperArtsy challenge, I chose to decorate the cover of my journal. The topic is Liquid Sculpting Medium but I'm not familiar with this stuff, so I used other media (mediums?).



I glued a piece of mesh fabric to the journal cover using heavy-body multi medium. I also added some texture with bead paste/gel. Then I pressed a clay face, chipboard letters and some twine into the wet medium and let it all air-dry over night.


When it was all dry, I gessoed it all with black gesso. Then I sprayed it with various metallic sprays.


It needed some vibrant colours, so I added some acrylic inks (forgetting I had blue-ish sprays underneath... what do you get when you mix yellow with blue? duh...) I left it to air-dry again.


Finally, I added a bit of patina using green-ish and copper wax pastes.


Here's the detail...


...oh, I love the colours and the texture!


5 comments:

  1. This looks absolutely amazing, pavla! What a great idea to do a journal cover; ID like to try this with powertex,

    Lucy x

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  2. The colours and textures are fab, lovely journal, would like to own this, excellent project

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  3. a lovely idea - really great splashes of colour x

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  4. it's turned out beautifully! love the colours.

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  5. Pavla, this is gorgeous! I love the use of Powertex for a journal cover and the little face looks wonderful!xx

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