That's Crafty!: Autumn is Calling by Fliss Goodwin

Hello!

Welcome to my post this week which features my most detailed artwork created for the last Hochanda shows and was actually the first one I made so of course it had to have a bunny on it.

Step by Step:

Although this was actually intended to be a wreath, I decided to make it into a more substantial piece by filling in the centre as I wanted to create an autumnal scene so my first step was to create the background.

I took a piece of cartridge paper roughly trimmed to a circle slightly smaller than the outer edge of the wreath. I placed the wreath on top and drew around the centre with a pencil to show where to add my detail. I then used the maple leaf stencil with light texture paste to add a shape on the right side of the circle. On the left side I used the tree bark stencil. Once the paste was dry, I misted the paper with flat matte sprays, using orange, ochre and walnut. I drew around the edges of the leaf shape with a water soluble pencil to emphasize them.

I next prepared the paper that I wanted to cover the wreath shape with and cut a circle the size of the outer edge. I misted it with a mix of flat matte and lustre sprays in autumnal shades. Once it was dry, I glued the wreath to the paper, carefully cutting out the central area with a craft knife - my cunning plan here being to use this paper to cover the rest of the wreath shapes and in fact I did!

My next step was to prepare my embellishments so I selected some of the leaves and toadstools from my stash of already made elements, adding a bunny (of course!) coloured with walnut flat matte spray and a scrap of interesting brown waffle type packing material which I misted with walnut flat matte spray and aubergine lustre spray.

I took some craftyboard leaves and made them 3D by using the matching leaf stencil with texture paste and when dry, misted them with flat matte sprays.

I glued my backing paper to a circle of greyboard cut to fit on the back of the wreath and then assembled my scene using a mix of glue and silicone adhesive for depth.

I finished off with a piece of torn muslin wich I scraped with light texture paste, scrunched and dried then misted with walnut and black purple flat matte sprays. I pulled it in half and added one piece on the left side. The other piece I stamped with the autumn calling text using black ink before gluing in place on the wreath.