Liz's Creative Corner: Altered mixed media brush

Sunday, 27 January 2019

This Makes Me Happy

Hi guys, I thought I'd show you another bit of mixed Media I've been creating,

I altered a old brush with some Bloo/Mar chipboard, a Resin piece and lots of mixed media,

I bought a fabulous Resin lamp post piece a few weeks back and wanted to use it on this mixed media brush,

here are some photo's I took of the brush and chipboard frame plus the resin lamp post before adding all the mixed media too them,

I painted them with some white Gesso dabbing it on the top part of the brush and the chipboard frame with a foam dauber, this gives a little texture and is fab for getting into odd shapes,

I dried this with a heat gun which also helps give texture, then glued some twine around the brush, leaving some over the top of the brush so I can hang it up, yep this brush had no pre drilled hole in it!!!Lol

I then went over the handle again with some texture sand,

I then added my base items onto the brush with 3D Matte Gel, I added some metal embellishments too for added interest,

When the Gel was dry I started painting the brush and the resin piece plus metal pieces with some Impasto paint, these are quite thick so I added a little spray of water here and there to water some of it down,

On the resin lamp post I also used some alchohol inks,

I then added some of the 13 Arts white Branches over the chipboard,

After this I added a ribbon flower, paper flowers and paper leaves,

I glued a Finnabair metal flower onto the top of the ribbon flower then when set I painted the inner sections with some Patina effect paint,

I used the same Patina effect paints onto the bristles part of the brush, onto the metal elements and onto a Dusty Attic chipboard I also added,

The leaves are cut out of 13 Arts paper from the until Dawn pack with a lady E design Tiny leaves die,

I finished my project off with a hand made air dry clay bird which I made with a mould from my stash, small metal flowers in bronze and black and white