Fragile by Amanda Southern
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I have a wall hanging for you this week taking my
inspiration from the style and products of mixed media artist Seth Apter. Seth
was recently in the UK taking workshops, that I would have loved to attend,
however next time hopefully.
Here’s What I Did:-
I
started with a That’s Crafty! MDF panel 4.5” x 9” (I love this size) and I first
added, using gel medium, lots of magazine headlines and text that I had cut
out. I then added a band of texture at the top using crumpled bandage and
another band of texture using crumpled tissue paper a third of the way down the
panel, again applied with gel medium.
Once that was all dry I randomly applied
black paint, totally covering the bands of texture but randomly over the
magazine cut outs as I wanted the text to show through. I then stamped over the
magazine cut outs with a texture stamp adding stamped scratches. Then I roughly
added crackle paste in areas of the panel.
The
next stage was to just keep layering up translucent paints till I was happy
with how it looked.
Onto a
manila tag I added Distress paints to match the panel as I wanted this to be
opaque, the final layer on the tag was brayed for a more grunged look. I then
die cut, one of Seths new dies - ‘Pathways’, from my painted tag. The manila
card is really strong for this. On another piece of the painted tag I stamped
and heat embossed one of Seth’s word circles, these come with their own die to
cut them out perfectly. The 3rd
piece to add was a That’s Crafty! small MDF heart, painted red, stamped with a
texture stamp and lightly brayered on some black paint. I added a couple of x’s
labels. With a final piece of my tag I stamped and heat embossed the word
Fragile. I heat embossed both with red embossing power but dulled down the
colour by smearing black paint on with my finger.
Here you can see the pieces added to the panel
I felt
it still needed more. I had a piece of chicken wire that I had rusted up with
rusting powder so cut some of that up and added to the panel with a staple gun,
more texture added.
No I still wasn’t happy I needed to add a little contrast of
colour and that colour was Broken China Distress paint applied with my finger
in areas, with the edge of a credit card and a lid to create a couple of
circles. Also some flicks of red mister paint.
Now I was happy with it and walked away……………
What I Used:-
Tim
Holtz Label Letters
Magazine Slogans Cut Out
Bandages
Tissue Paper
Credit
card and bottle lid for mark making
Fragile
stamp from my stash
Hope you like it and see you next Tuesday
Love
Amanda X
8 comments
Wowzer!!! This is fabulous Amanda! Seth is an amazing teacher, hope you get to one of his classes next year.
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome, Amanda! I love and admire how you managed to add so much detail without having your piece look overloaded! LOVE this to bits!
ReplyDeleteClaudia x
one word - blimey!
ReplyDeleteStunning textured grungy panel - the chicken wire is so cool, and I love how you've layered up the dies for the extra dimension over the amazing background detail.
ReplyDeleteAlison x
OMG Amanda! This is totally aewsome and the detail is just stunning! I also thought the heart and circular embellie were acrylic as they look see through.
ReplyDeleteFliss xx
wow this looks great!!
ReplyDeleteOne more word.....STUNNING!!!
ReplyDeletehugs
Donna xx
What incredible texture. Must be even more amazing in person.
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