Whoa! This card is so different from what I started to make! Funny how that happens. Anyway, this is for the MIX22 and F4A175 challenges. In the Free for All challenge, we were asked to Go Big. In the MIX22 challenge, use a credit card with our mixed media.
In the beginning, I poured a little MS Lake Fog acrylic paint onto my c/s. Then I used a business card to smear it around....I was thinking hmmm, maybe a cloud? LOL no, that wasn't working so I pulled some paint in straight lines outward from the center. The next layer is the metallic blue paint I used the business card again to make the flower and leaf. Next I stencil the word breathe across the top, but I wasn't sure if I liked the Granny Smith color (so later I chopped that off). I grabbed a bunch of star stamps and added them using, Versafine, Stayzon and Memento inks. Then I stenciled with the Geranium color. I used chalks to add color to the flower and stamped the spider. Oh and at some point I sponged all the edges.
I thought splitting the image might make it more interesting.
All of the MIX challenges are a real stretch for me, I am learning as I go! But I truly appreciate the opportunity to learn from such amazing artists here!
Date: Friday, June 28, 2013 GMT Views: 595
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Registered: April 6, 2009 Location: Weyers Cave, Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley Posts: 31100
Fri, Jun 28, 2013 @ 11:48 AM
Wow, Kathleen, this looks like a Van Gogh painting!!! Isn't it amazing what we can do when we have the right attitude! Beautiful bright colors and such a cute spider! (Did I actually say that?) Lol
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Registered: August 7, 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 28113
Fri, Jun 28, 2013 @ 12:01 PM
Well it may be a stretch for you but your technique came out great! It's sooo much a stretch for me I have not even tried a Mix. challenge yet! Way to go!
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Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105027
Fri, Jun 28, 2013 @ 12:39 PM
Oh, ICK! ICK! Is that a spider? ICK! the bud is wonderful, so are the colors.....but forgive me. No casing of this card EVER.......spiders just creep me out!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Registered: December 4, 2009 Location: Southern Utah's Dixie Posts: 20557
Fri, Jun 28, 2013 @ 3:39 PM
WOW!! Very cool, very artsy, very dramatic, Kathleen!! I love the flower bud and surrounding colors! The spider, just another pollinator in it's own way!