This week's teapotter's challenge is to be inspired by a couple of Van Gogh paintings. I chose Starry Night. I was guided by this approach to create my galaxy background: http://www.sparkletart.com/rsr/2016/...rnal-page.html though I didn't use as many colors as I was sticking with blue and black to stay closer to Starry Night.
I did add paint to the background, salt, rubbing alcohol, etc. The next layer, I added more color and sprinkled gold Perfect Pearls. For my last layer, I splattered watered down white acrylic paint to create my stars. I had intended to stamp a dark silhouette of some sort on here but liked the background so much, I didn't want to cover it.
I cut the sentiment three times, twice out of white, and last the gold glitter paper, then stacked them for dimension and a hint of shadowing. I matted it with the gold glitter paper and added it all to a white card base.
This was fun to make. Thanks for looking!
Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 GMT Views: 1163
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Accessories: Crayola watercolor paint, gold Perfect Pearls, white acrylic paint, kosher salt, rubbing alcohol, Big Shot, Sentimental dies by Avery Elle
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 131652
Wed, Jan 31, 2018 @ 7:44 AM
The different textures and patterning in that look amazing, Catherine. And I'm betting that with Perfect Pearls in there, there is a beautiful shimmer too that is always so hard to capture. This reminds me of the night skies when we go camping in France - deep, deep blue and more stars than I ever see here.
Registered: April 1, 2012 Location: Rogers, AR Posts: 28899
Wed, Jan 31, 2018 @ 9:20 AM
Oh wow - this is a starry night celebrated right!! Awesome!!
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6