Hi, I'm here today with a project which I've loved creating,
I saw the fabulous Mood Board on The Dusty Attic website and just had to use it as my inspiration,
I love under the sea projects and Seahorses are one of my favourites, so I've used a few Finnabair mixed media and Dusty Attic chipboards products on a reverse canvas frame,
I took an Cobblestone stencil and some modelling paste and stencilled the lower outer frame to give a little texture, let this dry,
I then painted the reverse of the canvas frame with some different colours of Finnabair blue and green acrylic paints, these I watered down in places with a lot of water on my brush to give variations of colour too, and set aside to let this dry,
I took this adorable Dusty Attic Sea Horse and added some mechanicals Steampunk Gears along with some Dusty Attic corals cut down then a few metal embellishments from my stash, I glued these on with some Finnabair Heavy Body Gel, then I left these to dry,
When they had set I got some of the fabulous Patina effect pastes using the blue and Green colours and added the colour by stippling it on with a brush, I went over with the colours in places for added depth then later I went over parts with some waxes in Old Denim and Mint Sparkle,
I built up some layers for the underwater scene by adding some cloth type fabric I have in my stash which I painted with two colours of Dusty Attic acrylic paints in Pesto and Forrest, (you can see this behind the seahorses head), then built up layers of Dusty Attic Corals, these I painted with Heavy White Gesso first then when wet added some mini Art Stones over the top, then when dry I painted over with the D/A paints,
I added some Air Dry Clay Stars from a Finnabair Mould but shaped them before drying to look more starfish in shape ( hopefully), these I painted with some of the Patina paste then went over with the Old Denim Wax,
On the other side I did similar but first I added a cut down section of D/A Fish Net Panel, this I added the pastes too, again I added some of the Coral with some more of the starfish!! when dry I glued some seashells and moss from my stash,
After fixing the Seahorse in place I added some 49 and Market Wishing Bubbles in Minty Breeze in a couple of places to give an added bit of interest,
Finnabair;
Impasto acrylic -Mediterranean
Patina Effect Paste - Mint green
Dusty Attic:
49 And Market - Wishing bubbles / Minty Breeze
Dusty Attic Moodboard
Happy Crafting!!
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