This characteristic on the PaperArtsy Weblog is the place 3 bloggers are despatched 3 objects within the submit. Sometimes we’ll obtain a stamp, a stencil and a few Fresco Paints, and in 2025, everybody will obtain equivalent merchandise.
We’ve got no clue what PaperArtsy HQ goes to ship, the entire thought of this problem is to do one thing artful in our private type with these 3 objects. We’re allowed to deliver different PA merchandise into the combination if we really feel it’s vital. I made a decision to not add anything into the combination this time…
These should not sometimes the colors or stamps that I’d typically select for myself, particularly collectively, however I do like this 3 issues problem PaperArtsy offers us and so after scratching my head for some time, I believed they’d make a reasonably funky flowerpot design… and so I grabbed a flower pot that wanted a plant and set to work…I made the design as a wrap round as I initially was considering that I could add some signature stitching into the design…this is a sneaky peek earlier than it was glued onto the pot and varnished…
…you will see it wrapped across the pot and varnished on the finish…
Not having used these two colors collectively on their very own earlier than I believed I would combine them to see what different shades I may make…
I significantly favored the tertiary shades (No2 and No4) and so I reused them in segments 7 and 11 (see color wheel numbering above) to make an additional combine giving me an excellent wider vary of colors to select from.
I began off by considering I would use a delicate tissue / papier mache utility onto the pot and impress the rubber stamps into it, to make the pictures extra indented, so I attempted a take a look at piece on cardboard first. I did have lots of enjoyable taking part in with this concept! It was messy and sticky, it took ages to dry, ages to wash the stamp and positively value avoiding!! The result wants engaged on so I parked that concept there and used one other methodology…
I wished to make use of the stencil in panels and so I used the gel plate to tug two pages. One utilizing the Rusty acrylic adopted by Blue Lagoon and the opposite vice versa. I waited for the primary layer to utterly dry earlier than including the second paint to tug the print.
I measured the circumference of the pot (it was not tapered) and so the piece of rice paper I’d be utilizing to place the design onto was utterly rectangular/rectangular. I selected rice paper as a result of it will be extra forgiving when gluing it onto the pot. It is at this level right here I’ll add that I used a superb texture paste onto the pot to offer me a flat working floor (the pot initially had a textured sample floor I didn’t like) and let it absolutely dry. I gave the floor a light-weight sanding in order that it will have a slight ‘key’ to connect the rice paper onto when it was prepared to stay on.
I began auditioning the place the design would sit and what number of panels might characteristic across the pot…
I had the color wheel at hand to see the shades I had accessible to work with
I began portray on the reverse of the tissue stamped designed prepared to make use of a moist paintbrush to tear them into particular person elements.
I really actually favored the best way the floor colors on the roll off sheet from my gel plate printing confirmed by the rice paper giving it a reasonably rustic background component…I made a decision to stay it onto the again of the rice paper!
I made a decision additionally to tear the gel prints into strips to make use of between the masks photographs and glued them into place utilizing a gel matt medium..
I allowed the gel prints to over hold the rice paper in order that I may minimize them precisely consistent with the remainder of it after it was all pasted collectively. I offset the masked photographs reasonably than aligning them…I believed this was extra consistent with what a tribal design might symbolize and the way doing that, it will enable me extra freedom with inserting the opposite stamped photographs.
I significantly favored utilizing the triangle and sq. formed stamps alongside the torn edges of the gel prints to merge the 2 paper designs collectively. I made a decision in opposition to including stitching this time in spite of everything however I’m nonetheless glad I labored on the flat floor and added it to the pot because it made stamping the additional particulars onto the design a lot simpler and with out the worry of slipping and smudging something.
I then added the finer particulars into the design…
As soon as I had added the little particulars to every space I glued it onto the pot utilizing a heavy gel matt medium and waited for it to totally dry. I then used three coats of water based mostly dishwasher secure mod podge varnish to utterly seal the artwork onto the pot. I did this the other way up and on a bottle in order that nothing would keep on with my work floor.
It was then prepared to deal with a plant…
I actually hope you have loved what I’ve created right here and that it might have impressed you to offer the three issues problem a go…or upcycle a plant pot…my son mentioned I ought to make extra pots vibrant!
Till subsequent time, get pleasure from arting,
A lot love
Floss x