Finished Projects - Mixed Media / Stamping With Melva

Finished Projects - Mixed Media

Monday, 9 February 2015

My 2 day workshop is finished and I wanted to share my finished projects. It was such a blast spending 2 days stretching my creativity and learning from Donna Downey. I have to say it wasn't always easy but the thing I learned was not to give up. There were times along the way that I really didn't like what I was doing, but I have to say I'm really please with how they turned out.

Project No 2 is a brush roll. New technique on this project is an image transfer. The Eiffel Tower is a transfer from an image I downloaded. Some of the ladies in the class did some amazing work with transferred images!

I forgot to take picture along the way. It turned out a little "grungier" than I expected.

Project No 3 is a canvas bag. This is the project that I tried to get out of my comfort zone. I seem to lean to earthy tones so on this bag I used blues and yellows. Wasn't sure I liked this, but as I walked by it this morning I decided it is growing on me.

Here's a couple of images along the way...

And the final project..

Project No 4... This is what Donna call's "Art Booking". It's a book made using muslin pages. The pages are prepared with joint compound (like you'd cover nail holes with), then other mediums that make them ready to paint. I went back to my comfort zone with this one - browns, greens, oranges, etc. The book has the look of leather as I used a 2 part glaze - first an orangey colour and then brown.

Check out before pictures...