New Quarter Challenge
How times fly’s 🙂
I was unsure what to do with this next quarter challenge and as most of everyone here are felters or fibre artists I was having a lot of trouble coming up with a challenge that would be fun
So sorry but naturally I choose mixed media and I’m really hoping that you will give this a go
I’ll kick it off with my latest project and we’ll go from there
This was made on a canvas that I wanted to look like an old bit of wood, so I first gesso’d, then used modelling paste and heated it up, (heaps of fun) followed by a couple of light washes of burnt umber paint, highlighted with a greeny blue paint to represent mould and white gesso, I attached some old rusty wire then cut out some fabric for flowers and leaves. I then made some felt stems which I paverpoled to stiffen, painted the flowers and leaves after I laid them all out on the canvas, added some silk spiderwebs and secured them with a spray adhesive and couple of metal spiders that I gesso’d black, can you find them lol being black their very hard to see but trust me, their there lol
Im really happy with the way this turned out and I was thinking that this quarter it could be a mixed media piece using a combination of things and making it 3D, if everyone is up for it 🙂
So the challenge is to create something on a background using at least one element from the 3 different catagories. It has to be on a background or canvas or anything else you can come up with and include
1 – Felt, Fibre, Fabric, Yarn , threads ect,
2 – Metal, wire, mesh, rusty bits ect
3 – Paints, gesso, modelling paste, paverpol, or wood glue ect
I hope you’ll find this a fun challenge and be happy to play along xo