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Stone Angel Project: Art by Beth Wilts
Link to Stone Angel Project
page 2
I have been invited to participate in a
Round Robin project for 2008. The theme is stone angels, hence the free pictures
for you to download in the
collage gallery.
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Stamps Used:
This is the seventh and last book sent to me.
All the colors for this and the next page were burnt sienna, cerulean blue and zinc white Golden Fluid Acrylics.
I used zinc white as oppose titan buff to keep the tans from turning yellow.
I painted the background a mix of zinc
white with a tiny bit of burnt sienna and cerulean blue. The brown border was added with the mix of burnt
sienna and cerulean blue but no white.
I made the Golden Soft Gel (Gloss) transfer from a photo from Flickr. The original hand was
green but I needed it to be blue for this piece. Using Photoshop Elements I removed all the color, then added
just blue. I painted zinc white and the burnt sienna/cerulean blue tan over the hand
on the backside of the transfer to make these opaque. I didn't want the text to show through.
When I laid the text and the hand over the painted background, I didn't like the
plain tan background. So I stamped the giant marble stamp in a darker shade of tan.
The text was glued down first, but to my horror it went down crooked. I could not get it off. The transfer
was glued down. To visual straighten the hand, I added to the dark border to parallel the transfer.
The hand picture is free for you to download in the
collage gallery.
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Stamps Used:
This is the right hand facing page to the piece above.
I painted the background the same tan. I stamped the wings in black ink. Then painted over them
with a darker shade of tan to push them to the background. Then I added the brown border using the
same burnt sienna/cerulean blue mix.
The angel is from a photo from Flickr. The original photo was
green but I needed it to be blue for this piece. Using Photoshop Elements I removed all the color, then added
just blue.
The angel was cut out of the photo and glued down. I added the crowns punched out of black
paper to give the piece a heavier bottom. I cut the "sun" from embossed paper #1. I painted it the dark
brown mix and the washed it with the tan mix but wiped most of it off.
The angel picture is free for you to download in the
collage gallery.
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Stamps Used:
This is the sixth book sent to me. The owner of this book requested the colors of blue-green patina
and rust. The pages were in the shape of a house.
All the colors for this and the next page were titan buff, phthalo blue (red
shade) and burnt sienna Golden Fluid Acrylics. I also used a bit of Daniel Smith duochrome adobe to add a bit of metallic to
the background.
I painted the background titan buff. I
masked off the area to fit under the transfer and stamped the stock info
image over and over to fill the space. I made the Golden Soft Gel (Gloss)
transfer from a photo from Flickr.
The green-blue patina of the angel was the perfect shade. I painted titan buff over the hands and white flowers
on the backside of the transfer to make these opaque. I didn't want the stamped image to show through.
I painted a pale version of burnt sienna
above the area of the transfer. The embossed paper was painted a darker
shade. Because it was just plain boring I dried brushed the metallic
paint on top. It needed more of a border so a very dark mix of the phthalo blue and burnt sienna
was added. Then titan buff was dry brushed over the top.
The transfer was glued down first then the embossed paper. I outlined the
white flowers with a white gel pen.
The angel picture is free for you to download in the
collage gallery.
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Stamps Used:
I started this page by painted a background of titan buff. I glue down a page from a book making sure not
to get glue on the front. The I used masking tape to pull of sections of the page. Washes of matte
medium with burnt sienna and a touch phthalo blue were painted over the text. A darker mix with 50/50 burnt
sienna and phthalo blue was painted on outer edge to create a border.
I painted the stamp with titan buff and stamped around the edges. The angel images was glued down with matte
medium. The images was outlined with a white gel pen.
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Stamps Used:
This is the fifth book sent to me. Although the owner had no specific request,
most of the pages were a dull, blue green. The other really interesting part of this
book is its' pages. She cut up postal mailing boxes into 5 " x 5" pages. She ripped off
some of the cover paper to expose the corrugation. Then painted gesso on the pages to cover the printing
and give the paper some "tooth".
The background wash (paint mixed with matte medium) and green shades came from mixing titan buff,
cadmium yellow medium, cadmium red and cerulean blue Golden Fluid Acrylics. Adding the touch of red dulled the
green nicely.
First I made several Golden Soft Gel
(Gloss) transfers from a photo from Flickr in different sizes
and orientations. I stamped the clock on a piece of tan paper. The time on the clock is 8:22,
my birthday. The clock image was toned down by several layers of titan buff. The flower shapes were cut out
from one of the embossed papers I sell. The shapes were painted black and washed with watery white paint. Everything was
glued down with either matte medium or soft gel. I rubbed a green Neocolor I (NOT the watercolor crayons but the oil crayons)
on its' side to highlight the corrugation.
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Stamps Used:
I started this page by stamping the clock border on the the gessoed board.
Layers of titan buff were used to push the image into the background. If
fact the clock image almost completely disappeared. I glued down the Golden
Soft Gel (Gloss) transfer. A light green background was made by tinting titan buff with green.
To add back the clock border, it was randomly stamped in green ink.
I tried to add a halo of lace paper around the angel's head but it disappeared when I
glued it down. I rubbed black and white paint to highlight the paper. The punched shapes came from a magazine
ad with red rose images. Red and green are complementary colors. I glued down the clock charm made from the clock
kit on the brass bezel page of my website.
I rubbed a lime green Neocolor I (NOT the watercolor crayons but the oil crayons)
on its' side to highlight the corrugation.
The angel picture is free for you to download in the
collage gallery.
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