Portrait Hera by Amanda Southern
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Hi Everyone,
I have been playing again with one of the That’s Crafty! substrates, this time the 8” x 8” white/greyboard.
As you can see I ended up framing my work
Here’s what I did:-
Starting
with a piece of That’s Crafty! 8” x 8” grey/white boards I first gave it a coat
of gesso, as I was working with water it gives a great surface to move the
colour around on.
I then
took the XXL stamp “Portrait Hera” by Carabelle Studio. These stamps are so large they
come on their own acrylic mount which is A4 in size. Due to the large stamping
surface of these stamps I sometimes find it tricky to get a perfect print but I
have found a work around that I also love the effect of. That workaround is
that I stamped it using Dylusions black paint. I brayered a thin layer of the
back paint evenly over the stamp and then instead of taking the stamp to the
paper I took the paper to the stamp carefully laying the board over my brayered
up stamp I could then apply pressure to the back of the board to transfer the
image. Just be careful that you don’t move the board prior to lifting it off as
you will smudge your image. I find I hold my breath at that point. Whilst your
image is drying clean your stamp immediately to remove all the paint before it
dries. The other advantage of stamping with paint is that you can use most
mediums with it and don’t have to worry that you’ve used the right ink pad.
So with
everything cleaned up I set about colouring my image, I used a selection of Distress pens both directly onto my image and by scribbling onto my craft mat
and watering down and applying with a water brush. I really thinned down the
colours as I wanted to create lots of drips on my piece. To add I bit more
definition I went in with a couple of Spectrum noir pencils. The following
pictures show the before and after of adding the pencils.
without pencil
with pencil
I decided to put it in an 8” x 8” black box frame and wanted
to add some words. To make the piece a little 3D I decided to stamp my
sentiment onto the glass of the frame.
I heat embossed my sentiment onto the glass that I had
removed from the frame.
Stamping on glass is very slippy so I have to be honest, it
took me a few goes to get a clean stamped image before I applied the fine black
embossing powder. It took a lot longer than normal to get the powder to melt
with the heat gun which I am guessing is because the glass was cold. If you try
this be careful as the glass gets very hot.
What I Used:-
Black
8” x 8” Box Frame
Sentiment
stamp from my stash
Hope you like it and see you next Tuesday
Love
Amanda X
7 comments
Beautiful! Really lovely. Lx
ReplyDeleteAmazing - love how the inky drippage adds such movement and character.
ReplyDeleteAlison x
So FREE and STUNNING.... wow. j.
ReplyDeletePop art at its very best from the Carabelle Queen
ReplyDeleteHugs
Donna xxx
This is really beautiful Amanda and looks gorgeous in the frame.
ReplyDeleteFliss xx
She's beautiful Amanda! xxx
ReplyDeleteThis is stunning
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