Autumn Woodland by Fliss Goodwin

Hello and welcome to my blog post on this rather exciting day! I hope you caught the first of the That’s Crafty! shows on Hochanda today and poor Neil had to be up at the crack of dawn as it was at 7am! The second show is on now so do go and watch if you can. I’m sharing one of my samples here and I can’t tell you how much I loved working with these fabulous new products – they’re all amazing!

Ingredients:

That’s Crafty! Surfaces – MDF Jagged Edge Upright

That’s Crafty! Bits and Pieces Greyboard Embellishment Sheets – Robins and Doves, Leaves, Toadstools

That’s Crafty! Shimmer Paint – Charcoal

That’s Crafty! Metallic Paint – Copper, Antique Gold

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics – Browns, Greys, Yellows, Greens and Titan Buff

DecoArt Media White Modelling Paste

Brown and Grey Pencils

Fine Embossing Tool

Palette Knife

Wooden Skewer

Silicone Glue

Recipe:

The first thing to do is to apply the texture paste to the upright section of the art panel. It needs to be fairly thickly spread and then comes the fun part – use the wooden skewer to draw a tree bark pattern into the paste. Make sure you don’t cover the bits that slot into the base, as this will make it very difficult to put together later.

Once the paste is dry, paint with shades of grey, brown and a little green paint using the DecoArt acrylics. I find the easiest way to do this is to add large drops of paint to a craft mat or ceramic plate and then pick up the paint with a fairly wide brush. You can mix it up a much as you like as that way the end result will be much more realistic.

Once the paint was dry, I brushed on the shimmer and metallic paints lightly to give the surface some sheen. I then painted the base to match.

The next task was to paint my embellishments and for these, I searched the internet for colour inspiration for the toadstools and found an amber shade with spots that I really liked. I first painted the greyboard with the buff shade and then mixed yellow and burnt sienna with the buff to form my chosen shade. I completed the painting and added a little detail with a brown pencil.

I painted the leaves using a very easy dipping method. This involves adding a puddle of several paints in shades of Autumn to a plate, swirling the colours together and then pressing the leaves into the paint. I had enough to colour quite a few leaves so these will be appearing a bit later on this year.

My final task was to paint the bird and I have to admit to first painting up one as a robin but there wasn’t enough contrast so I decided on a greenfinch and once again used a photo from a Google search as inspiration. I hope you like how my little fella turned out.

Once I had painted everything I assembled my panel using silicone glue to give it dimension.

We have a new challenge today over at That’s Crafty! Challenge Blog today too so why not hop over to see how you can win a voucher for the online shop and with all the fab new goodies going in there, this is not to be missed!

Have a great weekend and see you next week.

Fliss x