It's Showcase time and of course Mitzi has given us another fabulous image to showcase, she is called 'Mask of Leaves', such a beautiful Autumn image, but she would work equally well in spring or Winter.
I decided to have another go at a mixed media canvas, this time using an A4 sized hard board canvas.
After watching many many Youtube tutorials, I decided to use scrunched up tissue paper for the texture and then paint to look like Autumn leaves.
I painted over the dried base with Gesso and once that was dry, with Kuretake Gamsai Tambi Watercolours and also some mica powder. Once this was dry I rubbed over the bumps with some Gold gilding wax - so far so good.
Then it got tricky, adding the embellishments, firstly I had trouble getting the glue to hold and the idea was to paint with Gesso, then add the water colours again as before, but it just ended up as a bit of a mess. I decided to leave it overnight and then re-visit.
The next day, I just kept adding more colour, but it wasn't really getting much better, so I stopped and added some lettering cut on my Cameo and once I stood back, I thought it actually didn't look too bad and I think overall I have captured the Autumn Colours (At least I hope I have - lol)
The gorgeous image was coloured with Copics, it is about A5 size and thankfully I am really happy with how that went.
I definitely think I will give it another try, after watching a few more tutorials!!
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