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Art by Beth Wilts Page 39
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This piece started with the set of colors I liked in a piece of art in an old Somerset Studio, peach pink (to me this is ballet pink), a warm medium brown and black. I painted with Golden Fluid Acrylics. The peach pink came from mixing quinacridone red, hansa yellow medium and titan buff. Some of the pink was set aside for stamping the solid design. More titan buff and matte medium were added to make a pale wash for the background. The brown came from mixing quinacridone red, hansa yellow medium and cerulean blue. By using 2 of the same colors, I knew the pink and brown would work well together. Again I set aside some of the mix for later stamping. A small amount of brown was added to the matte medium to make the wash of light tan. To make the border, I taped off a 1 inch section with perfect release making tape and painted the wash of tan. Then I stamped the music stamp with the reserved brown. The tape was pulled off and the area dried REALLY WELL with a hair dryer. The the thinner stripes on top and bottom were taped off and painted with the remaining brown. The 4 images were then transferred to the art using a tacking iron. (Here is how blonde I am. I FORGOT to use wash away transfer paper. This dawned on me AFTER I had ironed the images. It took me 15 minutes to rub of that darn paper. It would have been seconds if I had used the wash away transfer paper.) For the border, I first used matte medium to glue down some tissue paper for depth. The black color was mixed from burnt sienna and ultramarine blue. It was too dark and harsh for the delicate coloring of the piece, so I painted over it with a mix of titan buff and matte medium to tone it down.
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First of all, if you can take a class from Stephanie, please do. Her knowledge of how to structural design in 3 dimensions is amazing. My description will be somewhat brief as I don't want to take away Stephanie's teaching. All the colors and shades came from mixing titan buff, quinacridone red, burnt sienna, and hansa yellow medium Golden Fluid Acrylics. I also used iridescent bright gold for highlights. The basic house shape was cut from foam. The block was covered in plaster cloth and several layers of plaster of paris. I painted the house with a burnt orange made from quinacridone red and burnt sienna. I punched stars from several different papers and glued them on with matte medium. The flowers on the bottom were stamped with black ink on natural colored coffee filters then glued to the house. I starting painting the flowers the same magenta I used for the doll's dress but it didn't show. I painted them white with plans to paint the magenta on afterward. But I loved the way the flowers popped with the white, so I left them. The moon shape was made with with bailing wire. I left a long length of extra wire to later attach the moon to the house. It was wrapped with plaster cloth and then several layers of plaster of paris were added. The moon was painted to match the stars. The little girl is made of plaster of paris poured into a mold Stephanie made in class for us to use. I used the same quinacridone red (heavier on the red) and burnt sienna to paint her dress and shoes. She and the 3 scottie dogs were glued on with E6000 glue. The last thing I did was attach the wings and moon to the house with hot glue. |
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