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Saturday, June 11, 2016

Excited To Apply To Paverpol

Hi!
Wow, it is surprising to me how long it has been since I posted anything!

Today I want to show a canvas I made to enter
for a design team position with

http://www.paverpolusa.com/

The company is new to me but seems to have
some incredible products for all sorts of art projects.

Check out their FaceBook page here.

No matter what I am making I like try to
start out with an idea of what I want to create:
theme, colors, words, even layout
before I get to creating. Once I have that I like to gather the 
embellishments, paints, sprays, etc in a box or tray.

 My collection of embellies I may use


Some flowers and what not I may use...color doesn't matter because
I will gesso over the whole thing before adding my colors.


The start of my color choices.
I never limit myself with a color palette.

Now that the thinking part is done I grab my canvas and
start to add my texture with stencils.



Once I let that dry I start to lay out my embellishments...it's
funny how sometimes what you start out with ends up back on the shelf 
or in a different spot on the project!


Once I get them where I want them I glue them down and start on the gesso...
making sure to get it all over and into everything. 
Then start with my colors. I used some Tattered Angels, Lindy's and Jacquard paints.


This is the hardest step to describe in any detail because a lot of the time
I will just grab a color and start spraying...hoping it will work out
with the other colors. BIGGEST thing is to let it dry before
adding new colors. Or they can start to muddy up a bit.


I will wait a day or two before I decide a piece is finished and
will usually end up adding more paint or spray!
This piece I had to just stop myself and say it's DONE
after I added some micro beads, mica flakes and some pigment dust here and there.


 I took 10 pictures and none of them look like what the canvas really looks like
but here we are. LOL

I hope you like it
and wish me luck!





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