Time on the Wings of a Butterfly for Finnabair

Sometimes you just step back and say, "yes." THAT'S what I was 

talking about.....and sometimes you don't.

Well, this was one of those time where I knew I was happy

as soon as I started to glue it down.

Yep, it's my turn on the 

Finnabair Blog 

and this is my BRIGHT and 

SHINY project.

It's really hard to photograph a project with mica paints, but here I found

laying it on a darker background helped. 

The white background just washed it all out, and you couldn't see

the deep,rich colors of the metallic paints.

I started with a 6x6 inch canvas board.

I added a coat of heavy white gesso with a 

texture brush to create some pattern. 

When dry I stamped a script stamp with embossing ink

and used a fine black powder to emboss.

I made a few embellishments with the new 

Iron Orchid Design molds and paper clay.

So using these as my main elements, I started to lay out my design.

When I had some basic idea, I started gluing with 

Heavy Body Gel and 3D Matte Gel,

 adding different found items and

Mechanicals that I had cut apart.

When dry, give it all a coat of heavy black gesso.

I left the stamped area alone for some open space.

I'm sorry I didn't remember to take a picture at

this point, just use your imagination and envision this a 

flat black blob in the middle of my canvas.

Here you can see where I used Soft Matte Gel to add 

Mini Art Stones as filler around the clock area. Then I started to

paint everything that is black.

 I used every color of 

Opal Magics on this. All 8 colors. 

The medium sized Grungy Butterfly is a rainbow of all the 

fabulous colors in this palette.

The few colors of Metalliques that I used were for the heart

with Rusty Red, Steampunk Copper, and some Gold Rush for highlights. Otherwise it was all done with the Opal Magics.....

which are just magical on black gesso!

I painted the German Dresden black and added Aqua-Rose, Green-Gold 

and Yellow-Blue Opal Magics.

The fabulous purple comes from Violet-Green, and YES,

it truly is that bright! I LOVE it.

You can see the detail on the mesh here with several colors painted

in with a small brush.

The last thing I did was add some dry brushing with 

black gesso to the edges of the canvas and white areas, 

and give spots a spritz of mica powder spray.

Contrast and shine....it's so easy to achieve with these

terrific paints.

Give them a go.  You won't be sorry.

Your Friend in ART, 

Linda

Products Used:

Art Basics - Heavy White Gesso, Heavy Black Gesso, Heavy Body Gel, 3D Matte Gel, Soft Matte Gel, Double Sided Texture Brushes-Set1.

ArtAlchemy Paints-Opal Magics - Blue/Gold, Aqua/Rose, Violet/Green, Yellow/Blue, Green/Gold, Violet/Gold, Rose/Gold, Pink/Blue

ArtAlchemy Paints-Metalliques - Rusty Red, Steampunk Copper, Gold Rush

Art Extravagance - Mini Art Stones

Mechanicals - Flowers/Large, Mini Roman Numerals, Grungy Butterflies