Ah, WIP Wednesday! I've had a lot to work on lately, but I'll narrow it down to just "By the Light of the Moon." I had a pretty productive weekend which translates into me now having to clean up the mess I made. But it was an artful mess ...
Step one for me was to sand down the Aves Apoxie on my wolfman. It was messy but I liked how it turned out. After I cleaned all the dust off, I painted it with black acrylic paint. (except the teeth and tongue)
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| Caution: wet paint |
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| Man becomes wolf |
Once it was dry, I dry brushed on white gesso.
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| Debating if I will add color to the highlights |
While I had the gesso on my palette, I took a bit and snuck it into a tough of black to make gray. I used the gray to paint the depressed areas of my full moon and then when that dried, I put the rest of the white gesso over the high points and sides.
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| It resembles the moon, right? |
Next up, I aged the photo of my wolfman. I added Tim Holtz
®
Distress Stain in Walnut to the torn edges and added a very thin layer over the photo, dabbing with papertowels. I added a bit of Tim Holtz
®
Distress Stain
in Broken China as well.
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| Grunging up an old photo |
With the photo nicely aged, I glued the moon in place and while it dried, I did a mock-up of how the finished piece might look.
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| Getting a feel for the finished piece |
I decoupaged the photo and while that dried, I added Tim Holtz
®
Adirondack Ink
® Silver
Mixative to the bullets.
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| Silver bullets |
The bullets are now dry and I'm trying to figure out what is missing with this piece. I'm thinking torn clothing or maybe some body parts ... Stay tuned!
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